A good reason NOT TO ! ! !

If anyone was ever thinking that a coupe might make a decent cabrio . . . even if you might have to run without a folding top . . . here's proof that it doesn't !

Ebay item# Z4586553961

I don't think that link works.

Here's a clickable link to the atrocity that TC found. Ugly doesn't even begin to get at the problem. We don't even need to discuss the ramifications of body integrity,,,it's just an eyesore. They ruined a perfectly good car. :(

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D4586553961%2B%26fvi%3D1&rd=1&item=4586553961

Well, it appears to be a clean job, BUTT as with a lot of hardtop to open-air conversions one has to wonder about the stiffening off-sets employed if at all!

I doubt there is a top, I didn't read the drivel. The backdrop looked like the resellers in AZ.

Overall the car looks like a kid from private school trying to hang out in the neighborHOOD with the street guyzzz...Cabs don't outlaw so well!

The seller seemed emphatic that it wasn't a reproduction though!
No Sale.

Other than the paint, I think it looks decent.

Yep Paul; those are the VS resellers in AZ. The same ones that were selling the "Boyd Coddington Speedster".

Yeah they use the same wording for the advertising....shoemakers!

That is an atrocity. There is no top, the lines across the rear end are completely screwed up. It looks like 7th grade shop class smoked dope then busted out the sawzall. There is so much orange peel in the dash board paint that you could probably squeeze it and get a quart of minute maid juice. The stripes belong on a 69 chevelle not anything made in Germany... The original engine was replaced with a VW unit. The roll up side windows are gone forever -you cannot even pretend its a top-delete cabriolet. They have taken what appears to be a pretty solid little coupe and destroyed it.

And to boot, the hairless monkey advertising it thinks the wheels are Porsche "cookie cutters"... If you can't tell Fuchs from cookie cutters, you have no business even trying to sell any P-car regardless of how badly you have humiliated it in the body shop.
angela

Hey Angela how do you really feel....
I'm picking up the H.D. this weekend, last chance to bring it to me..
you little grease monkey.....(and I mean that in a nice way)

I agree with everything Angela stated in regards to the lines and especially the "racing" stripes. Even IF you were putting racing stripes on this beast....why choose a very FLAT gray to go with your glow-in-the dark orange/red paint job? How does this car in its' current state of disarray qualify for "historic vehicle" plates? Because no one in history has ever mutilated a car with so little imagination? For fun, click on the bidder history to see what these "Porschephiles" regularly buy on eBay. The current high bidder at $4242.00 collects bird figurines in the $5 to $15 range. I don't think they will be the new owner.

I have been wondering for a while what a cut down B coupe transformed into a convertible would look like. I got curious after I saw on the sightings section that the 90210 speedster was a cut down B. I saw an episode featuring that car & yes, you can tell, but they didn't really show the back of the car. After seeing the ebay car I can see that the engine compartment comes up way too high on those to look like a speedster or a cabrio. By the way, why do you think they used a cut down B for the crash scene in Doc Hollywood? Any ideas?

Luke, you got way to much time on your hands......(looking at a bidders history)....

I think that is funny... I'm going to do the same later, look at seller's other proclivities! Yeah, to my eye, even a real cabriolet of the era leaves something to be desired, I mean compared to a speedster!

Going further look at a 1989 speedster and then look at a 1989 cabriolet. My heart sinks cuz I know even if I do the turbo body on my '89, I'll still have the dumb windshield profile.

Those AZ guys are sumpin' else!

Vince...you may be right about having too much time on my hands, but a large percentage of my work takes place on eBay and I find it fascinating. Sometimes, though....you get more info than you really wanted. For example, the ladies size XXXL dominatrix outfit the a potential customer of mine had won. It took weeks for the imagery to melt away. Everybody's got hobbies.

Angela, loved the Minute Maid joke!!

Just in case you guys think I'm being a little socially challenged, check this site out. Here's what began life as a 64 cabriolet and what can be done if you have 2 things : 1 SKILL and 2 GOOD TASTE!

http://www.partsobsolete.com/Outlaws/cab.htm

Check the rest of parts obsolete site to see the work they do on the coupes. It's just that this 64 cabrio has some really artful work done to it. I know the ebay car started out as a coupe, and the emory car as a cabbie, but these guys do alot of coupes. One of their favorite things to do is build outlaw racers with the front of a late (64ish) car and the rear of the older cars. Absolutely stunning! Wouldn't that poor ebay atrocity have made a lovely coupe outlaw 356?

By the way Vince, I have to fly out to VA for 3 weeks on Friday night... I flat missed my chance to ride a really cool motor bike didn't I? angela

Now THAT is gorgeous!

I LOVE the tail lamp detail! The subtle way that it's in-set rather than just a flush mount with a gasket.

SO beautiful ! ! !

"ride the big one"

Would that be a hard tail . . . ?

Angela, open invitation for you to come ride the big one whenever you are in L.A. (the Harley of course)(these guys will make something dirty out of this)