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Old 03-25-2005, 05:29 AM   #5
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Jim:

Oh I got the concept alright... Porsche ownership = $$$$

I've dropped $6k on my 1997 boxster since buying it less than a year ago!

But my existing top with a plastic window can be replaced for $425.00 + labor and the new top would last for another 7 years or more. Chopping the plastic doesn't bother me as I do it so infrequently--my car is now retired from a hard life of daily commutes and is a garage queen.

I'm thinking of what I could do with the extra $800.00... correct my subframe problem (off a couple of millimeters from a rear end collision before I bought the car), get those three tiny rust spots I found removed and resprayed, etc.

I wish I were one of those boxter owners who has a nearly flawless car they're enhancing for the fun of it. I'm just trying to restore a car that's been abused and neglected by previous owners. One must make careful decisions about which replacement top to purchase, and frankly, this is the first of MANY retrofit tops to be made and sold... wait a year or two and you'll see three or four companies making them. There's a lot of boxsters out there with cracked plastic windows.

I also noticed that this glass top is half the height of standard ones, which makes sense engineering-wise, but I wonder if it reduces visibility much...the blind spots with the top up are sizeable already and I'd rather not make it worse.
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