I have a dodge charger and I know these days you can do anything as long as you have the money. Plus I have seen some celebs turn Rolls Royce Phantoms into drop tops. So what would be a rough estimate as to how much it would cost to turn a car that is not a conv. to one?
2007-01-05 07:45:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Other - Car Makes
I have seen the 300C turned into a convertible, and it looks like CRAP. You have to have the top part removed and then you put it back on with SNAPS like a pair of jeans. This job was a cheap one, the guys who did it did a lot of bragging, and was about $6000. Unjustified bragging.
A real good place, like West Coast Customs of Pimp my Ride fame could pull it off, but it would cost you more than the car, and you would lose your trunk space when the top is down.
Your warranty is also VOID and Your insurance company will tell you to GET LOST. Hell it cost my buddy $4000 just to make his sunroof slide back in his BMW 650.
2007-01-10 09:30:48 · answer #1 · answered by Import Car Salesman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From my personal perspective it is in EXTREMELY poor taste to take a charger and make a convertible out of it. That aside there is a saftey reason for not chopping off the top. The Charger is a unibody. The roof adds significant structural integrity to the overall car. Without it you will have to weld in a number of cross members in the body itself to keep it from flopping around when you drive it. And if you want power, like a 440, forget it! The car will twist itself into a pretzel even with the added members. Even with the roof on the car Chargers are very floppy. You'll find when you start pushing 500 horses (which is pretty common nowadays) you're gonna develop stress fractures in the unmodified body. The best way to do a Charger convertible, if that's what you truly want, is to modify a coronet convertible. I've seen it done and they look very good. What you do is buy the 69 charger front fenders and rear quarter panels. The fenders are relativley easy to find and the quarter panels are being reproduced. You then bolt on the Charger front fenders and weld on the charger quarters. You'll have to get a hood (reproduced) and grill from the charger as well. The car looks like a charger but it's a coronet and it's a pretty simple switch to go back to the coronet if you want. It is also far more sound structurally. The cost? About the same as doing a good restoration on the charger. You'd probably have to fix all that stuff anyway on a charger so you're not gonna lose anything by doing the coronet.
2016-05-23 06:38:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a Dodge challenge 2009 how much I go to spend to make to a conversation I what to look like it came for dealership
2017-03-08 21:57:13 · answer #3 · answered by Jose 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
$30.
Years ago we turned an old ford into a shooting truck for the farm by angle grinding the roof off. It wasn't pretty but it worked. Cutting through the B and C pillars is the hardest part. Never open the doors after the roof is off or you won't get them to close again.
Happy cutting...
2007-01-05 09:32:34 · answer #4 · answered by roger a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Better to just trade car in a get a conv. Can damage structure and make car unstable.
2007-01-05 08:00:56 · answer #5 · answered by cathoratio 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will probably spend at leat $10,000, probably closer to $15,000 that is a lowball estimate, depending on where you live a "rod" shop charges around $50 per man hour plus parts, And to be honest it will probably leak!! go buy a factory model. or wait for the new Challenger, not sure if they have any plans for a droptop though.
2007-01-05 11:51:21 · answer #6 · answered by don c 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what year? if its an older one it would look really cool and here is a link for some prices but i think the labor would be what costs not really the parts
2007-01-10 16:57:59 · answer #7 · answered by cute redhead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have no idea but i am sure that it is alot
2007-01-05 07:47:46 · answer #8 · answered by trivium332 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋