Convert mods, possible?

[stanthedog]

Never seen this addressed, probably impossible, can the top be converted to electric open & close. putting a screen behind the seats to block wind, like the boxter & BMW as well as others. Just a thought.

[NOVA Airhead]

I have never seen it addressed.

With enough time and money I suppose anything is possible although I don't see how you could do it on cars with the glass rear window. I would think you would need to unlatch the window. If you are going to do that (and unlatch the top at the windshield) you might as well do the rest. Its a small roof.
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[stanthedog]

Mine is 71, so glass window. Just feel a slight pang of envy when I see these newer cars lower their top with a touch of the button. must be nice.

[KGCoupe]

[stanthedog]

That'd be awsome. Doesn't bother me to much cause I have short hair, but my wife has long curly hair that blows all over the place, she gets a little annoyed but not enough to not ride in or drive it

[c21darrel]

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[tisius]

They sell these wind deflecting screens for Karmann Ghia's everywhere, just like they do for the bug convertible ....a plug and play item.
No real need to go through the hassle to make your own I would say. Unless you want to save yourself some money, have some time on your hand, and like to fabricate.
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[KGCoupe]

[CiderGuy]

I noticed all the wind deflectors readily available are for the European market and not the USA. I wonder why?

I remember when I was younger having corvettes and the wind use to whip my long hair so badly, I wore a headband to see.... Hats never stayed on for long
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[c21darrel]

[CiderGuy]

[KGCoupe]

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[e&m_ghia]

If you don't have the glass back window... Taking the top down takes us a couple of seconds, even including the "boxster chop" - faster than a modern automatic mechanism... (We'll have to remember that phrase: "Boxster chop" - very close to what we use.) Putting the top back up is probably about a draw with the modern cars, because it takes a couple of seconds for one person to latch both sides. (We have a late Ghia, but we removed the glass back window before we replaced the top, because we didn't want to mess with it.)

Of course, you don't get those cool Transformer mechanisms... But perhaps a reason the cars have lasted 40-50+ years, is the lack of cool Transformer mechanisms & associated electrics...?

And, of course, bad-hair days are part of the experience. I deal with the bad hair (I don't have a lot of it left anyway), E can apply a hair-band:

And, yes, even snow on the ground is no impediment to cruising with the top down & wind in hair. Just roll up the windows to cut down the cold wind a bit. (It's salt on the roads, that we won't tolerate...)

[e&m_ghia]

Ok, so E insisted that I mention that she prefers the "Old Hollywood headscarf" look. Think Grace Kelly.

(Ok, so that's not Grace Kelly, it's Tippi Hedron in The Birds... But it gives the image better than any pic's we could find with Grace Kelly driving.)