Anyone know if it's possible to make a Targa Top from a hardtop camaro??

Just wondering if anyone knows information about this, or possibly anything about a custom shop that performs this type of work, or better yet where to start looking???

I have seen it done from a T-Top Camaro, but nothing from a hardtop camaro.....

Thanks

 

C&C makes T-tops from Hardtop cars, so I'd imagine it would be very possible, tough MUCH easier with a T-top. There is one in my hometown made form a T-top, I tink it looks like crap though, it is really not a professional job. If you see one that looks good, let me know, but personally, I like the T-tops.

 

Its very posible, I had a body shop do it to my 4th gen.... wrecked the sucker 2 weeks later

If you do it, youll have to re- enfoce your A-Pillars.

Go look at a Vette with a targa top, youll get the idea. You can incorporate convertible latches into it.

 

If you don't mind me asking how much did they make you pay, and was it a glass top??

 

4th gen cars are much easier to do this with. The framing of the roof in 4th gens is identical whether or not it was originally fitted with t-tops, unlike 3rd gens that have totally different roof structures. Basically in the 4th gen they put a large piece of sheetmetal over a t-top structure to make a hard top car. Converting a hard top 3rd gen to a targa top would be just as labor intensive and expensive as making it into a t-top car. There are tons of posts on here about how expensive that is to have done.

 

Actually it should be like making a s-10 into a hard top convertable (ive done the s-10 before), The only difference is you have to re-inforce the body, with like a roll cage or atleast sub-frame connectors. It all comes down to how much time and money you are willing to put into it, you don't need the t-top hardware, but it makes it easier.

 

my car has t-tops, and i plan on turning it into a targatop one day...

i don't think it would be too hard... just have to weld the two t-tops together somehow... and re-inforce the body.