So I have this 88 Camaro RS. Its white. And I am restoring it. Long story short it has a rod out in it and it has the orginal 2.8 V6. I been waiting awhile to get a job because I just moved back to my home state from Virginia. I finally got one and tax season is coming up.

I want to of course restore my white 88 and put a bigger motor in it. I am currently really hoping to get this perfect donor car. Its an 88 Camaro also and its red. The only difference is of course the motor size and that this new one is a hard top. While mine is a T-top. The only thing wrong with the red one is that it needs a new exhaust. It drives and everything. But I want a T-top so bad that if I get this Red 88 I want to take everything off of it...some parts of the body, the interior... and of course the motor, mounts, and everything in it that I need is going into the white 88.

It would be alot easier just to put a new exhaust on this red 88 and drive it...and sell the white 88. So can you turn a hard top 88 Camaro into a T-top??? And if so...do you think there would be a shop that would do it? And any idea how much it could cost me?? I have all the tools needed to do the transfer but not the type of tools or skill to turn the hard top into a T-top. Answer me and let me know. I am posting this same post in the Body category to get more answers.
Below is a link I found on how to do the T-top Conversion. However its done on a 4th gen and I know their roof build is slight different. This guy did his own.

http://members.fortunecity.com/gripe...onversion.html

 

Yes you can and no you shouldn't.

 

 

i dont see why not, we took an 87 FC RX7 and turned it into a targa top, the only problem with making it a t-top would be that well...its unsafe. Plain and simple, one mis cut and youll be dead in a crash

 

The way I've seen most people do the hard top->ttop conversion (a search on this board will turn up a few) is to transplant the roof. That said, you'd need to remove the roof of the white one, and graft it to the red one, at which point you might as well have just swapped panels the other way.