How hard is it to convert a coupe into a convertible? I wonder. Probably anything can be done, with the right body shop and enough money. Hmm.Take, for example, the 1968 BMW 1600GT. Born when the BMW company took over the Glas car company, BMW threw its (better) hardware into the Glas body. Add the cool circular tail lights from an early BMW 1600, then the classic kidney-shaped grills to the front, and voila!
The BMW 1600GT is a fine looking car, if you're into the whole fastback thing (which I'm usually not). But when you see it as a cabrio, wow! From this ...
to this!
Imagine tooling around in a classic 1960s Euro-sports convertible, but without the price of an ASA Ferrarina or Aston Martin, or the unreliable workings of an MGB, Austin-Healey Sprite, Triumph Spitfire, etc. We're talking less than $15,000, if you can find one. Plus the bodywork, of course. But still, that's hundreds of thousands of dollars cheaper than the 507 (see last post) and you could drive it around, too!
Oh, and for those sociology fans out there (Jason), here's the connection: Glas is the title of a very rare book by Derrida. The (in)famous Frenchie presents a text by Hegel, a deconstruction of that text, and a commentary on the deconstruction, side-by-side on the same page. I've got two words for that: hard core. Three more words: $100 on Amazon. Yeowch.
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