Metro convertible / cabriolet + finders fee

[Don’t ask me I’m lost too!]

Hi all,

I'm on the lookout for a metro cabriolet (genuine factory)
any condition really
not the rover 100 version though

please contact me direct if you have one or know of someone selling one
there will be a finder fee available

thanks

[Mercdan68]

In classic car weekly this week fella

[Don’t ask me I’m lost too!]

Thanks mate but that’s unfortunately a rover 100 even though he calls it a metro
A nice enough little car though that’s had a lot of work done to it

[Don’t ask me I’m lost too!]

Rover metro cabrio has the metro front end etc and looks more like this:





The Rover 100 and 114 cabriolet looks like this





I know it doesn’t look like much of a difference but there’s a few changes here and there including the front end

The metro is normally late 1993 to early 1995 and the rover 100 is 1995 on although there are a couple of late registered metro cabrio’s about
I could have my arm twisted for a Rover 100 version if the price was great and then I’d do the conversion back to metro but as there’s a couple of people asking classic mini cabrio money for the 100 cabrio online I feel this may not be an option

[voodoo57]

In January 1981, Motor magazine reported that Crayford was planning to build a prototype convertible version of the recently-launched Metro, with the aim of offering the cheapest soft-top in the UK.

It was hoped that a no-frills, 1.0-litre version would come in at under £4000 – just £900 more than the base car’s list price and at least £2000 less than the closest opposition, such as the Golf convertible. (The more comparable Talbot Samba Cabriolet would not arrive until September 1982, at a starting price of £6196).

Crayford hoped to keep costs down by completing each conversion in around 70 hours, rather than the 200 hours which was more typical for such work. For those who wanted to enjoy a higher specification along with the wind in their hair, it was proposed that better-equipped versions could cost up to £7000.