ducati11

Hi all

After several weeks, I decided to go for the Cayman hardtop on my boxster
(in the past the so called Zeintop)
A factory 70 miles from my hometown already finished mine

Here are some pictures, I cant wait till the top is ready

Bye!

Charlie C

Can't wait to see the finished project! Nice!

boxsterlobster

Looks good!

shipard

Any details on where and who supplied the hardtop as i am also interested in these tops.

cheers
clayton

ducati11

Hi all

The hardtop is made in a company in the northern part of the Netherlands
(I will check if I can write down the name right here)
The hardtop is for sale without all the accessories ( glass, fittings,rubbers, stop/brakelight), and without painting and putting the top on your boxster.
BUT, if you pay for it (of course), the company is willing to do the whole process mentioned above, so including painting and putting the top on your car.

I choosed the last option.
Within one week the top will be finished, I will post more pictures for you!

shipard

yes please send through the pics and the company details.........indicative cost would be great too.

ducati11

@shipard
I'll answer asap

Hopefully end of this week!

Cuda911

Curious: Why not just sell the Boxster and buy a Cayman? This has gotta be a super expensive mod.

The French Dude

More pics please !!!

landrovered

because you can't take the top off for the 14 official convertible days each year!

ducati11

In fact you're right, BUT

To be honoust, the Cayman bottom price for a used car in the Netherlands is about 25.000 euro. Excluding the costs for optimizing minor defects

The difference (cheaper option) between my boxster including the new hardtop is still more or less 10.000 euro in my favour.
Besides that, I know my boxster is technically okay, what about buying another Cayman without being very sure the car is technically okay (in spite of an examination by a Porsche specialist).

And last but not least, having a softtop including a very nice hardtop....for me it's best of both worlds

Cuda911

Ah, I didn't realize that the hard top is removable. 25,000 Euro = about $34,000 U.S. Is that for a base used Cayman there? Always amazes me how much variation there is in prices for the same car in diff. parts of the world. My understanding is that Australia prices are insane,

shipard

guessing this mod is probably very much in line with buying a porsche boxster hardtop from the factory.

yes dont even think about comparing cayman prices in Oz starts about 110k.

definitely advantages living in Oz just car prices isnt one of them

ducati11

@ shipard

Maybe I misunderstand, but the factory doesn't deliver these hardtops

shipard

yes you did misunderstand........i wasn't saying they were factory made hardtops, i was saying it is probably about the same cost as a factory porsche hardtop

If i recall they were originally a Zeintec top who went out of business.........i think Z Art now make these, but i am not sure. I am curious to see who makes these now and what the cost involved is, buying and shipping etc