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Having been looking into this pace car, I have read a couple sources on the net that there were more then just 3 converts made. That 30 Yellow and 50 teal converts were made for parade and festival usage. If so where are these 80 converts? If they do exist are they street legal? Seems to me you would see one on Ebay, read about one from some old webpage thats been out there for some time. I see nothing on these.

never mind I misread the info, it was 80 in total CORVETTES!

There were actually several made for testing/engineering/etc, 96 or 98 to be exact. The majority of them have been crushed... but it is believed that some of them are tucked away in a warehouse somewhere in MI.

I would imagine they are all non street legal.

Seeing as they failed crash tests and thus cancelled i imagine they are not street legal.

I'd like to know why the beretta conv. failed crash tests, yet the cutlass conv. was fine. Why didn't they just do whatever was done with the cutlass to the beretta. I've often thought about the possibilty of takin' a beretta and cutting it up, and makin' it a conv. with cutlass parts.
While I'm talkin' about the cutlass, I also have thought about the body moldings on the cutlass supreme coupes, and the newer style dashes in them for possible swaps onto berettas. Anyone know if the dash would work? They seem like they are built with better quality, compared to the beretta dashes.

Anything is possible with enough time, money, and resources...

It has already been done, and yes it can be done. Ask Kyle Anderson, he is the main source for this stuff.

Beretta failed crash tests because the car folds in half when hit. GM didnt wanna stamp new doors, so they scrapped it.

it was the doors that killed the convt car???

They didn't add the reinforcement bar that was in the Cutlass. But there was more to it then that, I'm sure...

one of the reasons that beretta car manufacturing was stopped is that, for the year 1997, the car failed the newer side impact tests, the door was in need of a major over haul that gm probably did not want to get into with the already declining sales.

heavywoody wrote:They didn't add the reinforcement bar that was in the Cutlass. But there was more to it then that, I'm sure...

Like how they basically just stopped doing business with C&C after 1990 and they probably couldn't produce the convertible themselves for legal reasons.