Probably true that two door hardtops have been used
as parts donors for convertibles. Saving the cvt chassis and the cross bar
at the top of the windshield and the section where the top drops is all you need
if you have a real rust bucket. Then drop a rust free solid hardtop onto
the chassis, cut off the metal top, weld in the windshield header from the cvt
and the cvt tub and, voila, a solid ready to restore cvt requiring lots less
bodywork. that's radical surgery but probably parts of coupes have gone to
make solid cvts. as well. Too bad, as the roof line on the two door coupes
is beautiful. They look like they're in motion or at least poised and
ready to take off.
The radical surgery has been done more than once,
I'm sure.
Henry Hopkins
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