Got this car for a song, it's a 1977 924 convertible. Now before you say (yuck), look at these pictures. It's an all steel kit! Even the rear trunk is all steel. It runs and drives great. Needs body and paint and a new top, but damn, no timing belt issues and 30mpg. Also, check out this link, this convertible kit looks like ass compared to the 924 I picked up. So I know this is a quality kit.

http://www.jaxrepo.com/new_page_1.htm

Mine is this red one:

Rear trunk area:

The finish work is really detailed and factory looking. I don't know what to make of it? Why would someone spend all this time and money on a 924? Or is this kit something old enough to put on a 924 when they were still worth 75% of new?

change the wheels, add a roll bar

Once you come to your senses let me know how much will you pay me to tow it away?

and a V8

Is that a 924 or a 944? The rear fenders are 944, but the round side marker lights are 924. And the badge in back says 944. I'm confused.

944's weren't available until 83

I have a set of correct tires/wheels (BBS Style) for the flared fenders I could put on. Those rims are 15 inch, but not spaced out correctly.

A whopping 95hp doesn't seem like much, but with no top, it's a fun little car. The interior is pretty decent too. Just the drivers seat is F'd up a little. Seat covers fix that. Needs windshield.

Flugde, another Pcar to dump money into?

It's a 1977 Martini Edition 924, which means it was originally white. Still has the red carpeting and seat inserts.

The fender flares were glued or welded on? Don't know, they are steel though.

Somone I am sure put the 944 badge on the back. It looks like a 944, but isn't.

95hp baby!

If it runs drive it.

I like it! Put in a Audi turbo 5-cyl (924 uses an Audi engine anyway right, haha) or a V8...paint it the original Martini Edition colors, put on those BBS wheels, remove the 'reflector' and the 944 badge and you are set!
Keep this post alive with the updates too.

Yeah, even though it's not a 914, it's a cool little car and I will post updates here. Michelle and I decided to keep the little car and fix it up for her to drive. We have already decided to remove the front fenders and lower air dam and replace it all with real 944 parts. We replaced the bad rear drum yesterday (why it wouldn't move) and drove it around a little. It runs/drives really nice. I'll post more pictures as we do work.

It may be fun but it doesn't look like it's worth restoring with new paint and a new top. Maybe it should get a $500 Maaco paint job and the whole in the top stitched/patched in place?

I'd say clean it up a bit and enjoy it :vroom:

This is what a real 944 S2 Cab looks like. So this is certianly a very unique kit of some sort. Proves it has got to be old. Who would do this to a $500 924? Someone must have done this when the car was still worth $2-3k I am thinking?

They probably did it back when a real 944 S2 Cab still cost $30K.

Drive it like it is. Throw seat covers on it and don't worry about what the paint looks like.

P.S.....the 924's should not be considered for the V8 swap as the frame isn't strong enough. That's why a certain company quit selling kits for them

Realastically, the car isn't worth much and even though it's a neat 924, it won't ever be worth much. I won't update the brakes, but I will have the hubs/rotors machined to Porsche 5 bolt pattern and bolt on some nice wide 944 rims to fill out the fenders.

We do plan on painting it, but not spending much on that.

OH MY GOD!!! You have discovered the unbelievably rare and famous "ONE OF ONE" Prototypical Geneva Porsche Show Car of the 1976 World Of Cars Autorasma, upon which Porsche hung all of their Corporate hopes and dreams for the future!!! It was built especially for the great grand nephew of Dr. Porsche himself, little Fairy Feery Porsche (or was that Ferry Fairy Porsche??? It's so hard to keep all of the relatives "straight"), and was designed to entice the Royalty of Europe to once again enoy the joys of open air motoring!

However, before this famous (infamous?) car could ever reach the Show Stand, it was spirited away in the dark of night by CIA uber-undercover black ops specialists, operating on direct orders from the White House (back then, they called it the "Peanut Gallery") because Chevy didn't have a Corvette convertible in those days and the release of this Porsche would have ruined the balance of trade in the auto industry for all time! The President had it shipped directly to a super secret R & D Center deep in the back woods of (insert State of your choice here!), and had the poor Porsche dissected piece by piece to discern its secrets and how Porsche could make a convertible out of old Spam cans, whereas the USA couldn't make one out of 4,000 pounds of fiberglass impregnated garbage!

The story then takes an odd twist, with some reporting that Wood Elves in a far, far away land came and gathered up the poor 924/944/968/??? and quietly spent the next thirty years restoring it to it's former glory. Others say that a chop shop in San Berdo actually stole the remains and when they found out the parts were worthless, sold the whole mess to the Japs for scrap metal, but the Porsche magically reassembled itself on the ship to Japan (Black Forest elves again!) and when the ship docked, the scrap buyers found a perfect, but rather odd little car sitting on top of the pile!

This car was then promptly resold to famous collectors in Iran, Tehran, Afganistan, Uzbeckistan, and Timbuktu, and eventually wound up in a private museum in NYC, owned by someone with the initials "J.S." Go figure!

And now, for all to behold, it has surfaced again, in almost, practically, close to, nearly, generally, and most probably Concours Condition, with 23.5 original and total miles, to be auctioned off at either the next Barrett-Jackson Hoopla, or maybe put on display at the next Porsche Parade in Portland (has a nice ring to it!), for all of the Porscheophiles to drool over and speculate as to it's ever growing Intrinsic Value ...

Been driving it around now. Runs really good. Raised the back up a couple of clicks, fixed some little things here and there. Still much to do, I know I will sell the car, but sure cool to have it pass through my garage. It's been fun to work on. Sure runs good. I am thinking of asking $500 for it?

Another shot, sat in stop and go traffic even, it did really well. It seems to have a lot of torque tube noise, but 924's have that problem from the factory. This one just seems to be louder than it should be. Still runs and drives out smooth.

Actually, I have heard it's an actual kit offered sometime in the 80's and only installed on a couple of 924's and even fewer 944's. There is suppose to be another one of these floating around in Ausie country in two-tone paint scheme.