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Originally posted by SupraDank420@Jun 23 2005, 12:54 PM
I'm buying a 95 Supra this weekend or next week, luckily I found a reserved older guy who owns one and is the original owner. The car is a beaut and he only lives an hour away (just got lucky i guess). I love everything about the car, and this may sound picky, but I really wanted a Targa Top. Is it heard of to do a conversion from a regular hard top to a targa? And how much might I be looking at? Please let me know your thoughts and any of that nifty info if youve got it.
Thanx
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About the easiest way you are going to do this is to find a wrecked car with a targa top. Take a wiz wheel and cut at the very bottom of the front and rear posts and take the entire top of the car. Run it and your car down to a body shop and tell them to put that top on your car.
I had an 88 Mustang GT T-Top car which I did just the opposite to, I put a hard top on it. After the addition of an upper and lower intake, under drive pullies, Mass air, throttle body and 373 gears....the car twisted and popped the glass T-Tops...after popping a second set...I converted the car to a hard top.
I don't work in a body shop, however I did complete phase 5 auto body in vocational during high school, and did the conversion on the mustang myself.
I can look at my 86.5 and tell the guy with the 87, peice of cake. But you would need to find a Targa top car in a scrap yard somewhere.
Getting the cuts perfect is the key, so you can just lay it on and tack it. I won't write a post describing the entire process, because I really think if you don't do body work you should just take it to a shop somewhere. I am in Northern Kentucky, and would do the conversion, weld, grind and prep for paint for around $1,500.00,(This would include me paying to have your front windshield taken out and re-installed by a glass shop) you would still need to get the top of the car sprayed. I also work a full time job and could only dedicate a couple hours a day, and weekend days on it so you'd be without your car for atleast 2 weeks.
If you aren't close to me, and you are going to take the car to a body shop, be prepared for this to be very expensive.
This is the only way to do it, you are not going to cut the car's top into a targa and make it right unless you are going to make it into a full time targa. As far as making an insert out of the peice you cut out.... no way.