Very Ergent Car Question!!! After Marked Rag Top?

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my_name_is_what

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can you buy a kit to convert a 1986 monte carlo to a rag top??? i've seen pics of rag top ones online. but i can find no parts.... i want to make mine a rag top. any help greatly appreciated!!!
i know how to do the work. cutting the top off, and reinforcing the under side and body structure. and would also possibly add a single roll bar behind the fron seats. i just need to know if i can get a top to go on it before i start cutting off the origional one.... so far i've only been able to find sliding tops that work like over sized sun roofs....
 
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spanner

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Converting a hardtop to ragtop is difficult, and probably an expensive custom job.
Please don't attempt to just cut off the top yourself. Since a hardtop offers protection from rollovers, the ragtop versions of cars often have strenghened windscreen pillars to help protect you. If you just cut off the roof, the windscreen could collapse in a rollover and you get crushed.
You'd rather be cool in your hardtop than eating through a feeding tube in your wheelchair, right?
 
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