Targa Top Conversion?

[My86.5MintSupra]

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

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.