New member wanting to get back the love for my FB

[jstclair]

Hi All,

I'm from Melbourne in Australia and I have owned my Series 3 for nearly 20 years now. However, it has been left unstarted and uncared for about 7 years now given family priorities.
It is time to restore the car and give the body plenty of attention, refresh the interior and some 13b love!
It has always been a dream of mine to chop the roof and make it a convertible but I know the current restoration will set me back too many $$$'s already.

Anyhow the project has started.

Cheers,
Jason

[Lucky]

Hi, Jason, welcome along. I believe there was a firm in America offering convertible conversions for the FB, but the name escapes me right at the moment. I'll rack my brains, see if I can dig it out. IIRC they looked slightly.... awkward... but I admire your dedication keeping the car 20 years, let alone wanting to get so radical on it

[Lucky]

yeah, knew I remembered something about such a thing. The Dooley Avatar







http://askville.amazon.com/CA-based-com ... Id=1351845

Not utterly hateful, actually. I remembered something looking a lot more bizarre than that. Apparently a home-brewed conversion by Al Dooley a bit like Elfords in the UK. They sold 120-odd of them, it seems. Wonder how many are left

[codge]

There was a homemade 'vert over here. It had a canvas tent top but the poles kept slacking off. It was awful.

Not that yours will be the same Jason, I don't mean that.....just laughing at the memory of the one here.

[ian65]

Hi Jason,
welcome to the forum

[spirit r]

Hi Jason,
welcome here. In Germany KÜWE and Lorenz built a covertible.

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It has always been a dream of mine to chop the roof and make it a convertible but I know the current restoration will set me back too many $$$'s already.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Rare-1978-Ma ... 232c4f01f0

[jstclair]

Thanks for all your welcome notes and I appreciate the responses.
Interesting that I had not seen the German convertible car before.
I'm certainly not interested in changing the cars classic looks. I felt the red one in the link below kept its the body standard looks.
http://www.eunoscosmoclub.nl/lorenz-cabriolet.html

Thanks for the post regarding the one on ebay now.
I also see another for sale in New South Wales :
http://www.carsales.com.au/private/deta ... 909/?Cr=21

Once I have clear direction and have started on my restoration project I will post some pics on the projects "rides and projects" folder.

Cheers,
Jason