He should be smiling, his dad has a cool car. :rockon:

rear deck very well done. did you "borrow' any of that from another vehicle? I remember the old rabbit cabrio. they added a ton of weight to it and never resolved the rigidity problem.

Carl looks fabulous.
Looking forward to installing the 6-speed for you!

Looks great!

I'm happy to report that the trip up went great. Aside from the A/C not really working, the car ran fabulously. Day 1 was about 96 degrees and even with the 80-85 MPH wind chill we created, was still very hot, but the engine temp never creeped up above the last white line, oil pressure stayed pegged at 5 and AFR stayed in the correct range. Even drove through some periods of rain, a couple quite heavy, no electrical issues and only some minor top leakage at the back of the window to top seal, which I knew wasn't great to start with.

Looking forward to the return trip with slicker shifting, an extra gear, and two overdrives.

I bought it as a convertible. I believe it was done in CA in the 80s and is 1 of 6 done by this particular conversion house. It was another member's project car so I bought it in pieces, but mostly complete. I sent it directly from the seller to Carl at 928 Motorsports for a complete mechanical refresh and stage 2 supercharger install, which included GTS brakes, Borla exhaust, steering rack, new Koni's, new stronger Sachs clutch using the '83 configuration, HID H4 headlights, etc then I did all the interior updates (stereo, carpet, firewall, etc) and final assembly.

I have a bunch of pictures from the progress and at some point will probably put together a build thread just so I have a record of it.

Here's Pete's Stage II supercharger install (pic below)

He's having us put a 6-speed in it this week...


Pete: damn fine job on that interior!

Thanks Carl. Can't wait to get it back in a few days.

we started on it at 8 this morning...

Its all out and down, and we are beginning assembly.

Its a bit messy at this stage... I'll post you a nice looking pic before it goes up and in tomorrow.

A couple of years ago I took a hatch with the window in it back to Mojave, CA to a guy named Gene Winfield who is a famous car customizer from back in the fifties and sixties and who is still at it. His home and shop is on a plot of ground about a mile and half south of town and just off the freeway a quarter mile or so. When I was there he told me that he did 6 of these 928 convertible conversions back in the 80s. If yours is one of his it will probably be worth some real money some day just from coming from out of his shop. It might be worth your trying to document that history.

Jerry,

That's great - thanks for the note. Any contact info for Gene in your database that might be a place for me to start?

For the others here, from what I've gathered, there were at least 3 companies or people chopping the tops off 928s. One group was in Canada but theirs didn't have a folding top and was just an open car, another was Carelli, but theirs had the top fold down into the rear seat area and had a flat toneau cover that came down over the folded top to make the rear deck completely flat, kind of like how the Corvette convertible looks, and then there were the ones like mine, which keep the rear seats functional with the top up or down and the top folds onto the rear deck, but in-front of the trunk hinge. I believe there were 6 of these last type with mine being 1 of them. There was another blue one that was part of an estate sale in CA with a polished intake, but the intake was disassembled at the time of the sale. I believe that car has recently been purchased and is now in the Atlanta area.

Mine is the 'Carelli' style in terms of how the top stows and the leading edge of the door being cut much lower than yours. I was able to make the rear seats functional by making a bracket the moves the seat back pivot point forward an inch or two. I don't think my conversion was actually done by Carelli, though as in some places the original work was very crude. I think they must have made a kit that was installed by someone else.

Got pics?