Hard top conversion for a cabriolet?

Stumbled across this, looks a bit weird! Then again it would help all the owners of cabriolets with leaky roofs. What do you think?

theres someone on here with a black cabby and one of those roof's

Seen these before. From all accounts I believe there a little rare. Fun to look at. No idea of cost though.

Im sure I saw one for sale a coupel of years ago for £3k. While on the subject back then, I think only 3-7 (cant remember) are known to be in existance today.

Oh and they were made by Vilkus

I believe the white one and the black one both belong to Mk1dcky a member on here and real nice bloke an all.

He has a black Sportline with the Black top fitted.

I looked into making a hardtop like you can get for MX-5s etc - basically a hard fiberglass shell which fits on over the folded roof. The development costs are very high but it is doable - the catch being that they'd cost £1200 ex VAT for a run of ten or £1000 for 20 Can't see the numbers working at that cost…unless someone's feeling flush and wants to drop £4000 on development

Stone

saw one in the local scrap yard today!

well….a home made one, somebody had put filler all over the roof to start making a hard top!

  one with a genuine vw radiator 

Yeah I like the black one on here with one of those roofs, looks different.

Only prob I can foresee is, is it a good idea to have the roof folded away for months and months on end? would it loose its shape? It'll definately have big creases thats for sure. Maybe its not a problem??

You remove the fabric roof, there's a build thread on here somewhere 

Ah I see. That makes sense.

mk1jim said

  one with a genuine vw radiator 

Yep its sat in deatons jim - its that blue one I was on about before xmas with the white filler roof!