Yes ASC does a lot of chops, many for custom one-off vehicle conversions (such as for the VX)- but you are telling us that major auto manufacturers ship ALL thousands and thousands of their vehicles( sold as convertibles) over to ASC and then they are shipped back? ASC is going to go in, add major structural support (that would be much easier and safer to do when designing and building them in the first place) in a production style line? They must have the largest line in the world and lots of robots with only 1,100 employees!

But look at thier home page - the first statement: " ASC exists to help automakers design, engineer and maunufacture high-imagelow-volume vehicles". That is NOT the same as prodtion quantities.

The 350Z, Bug, Mustang, PT Cruiser, Porsche, SABB, Lexus convertibles and most all others ARE built as convertibles ON the production line from a design based on the original hard top versions. There is NO ASC sticker/plate on the vast majority of convertibles (and not on any of the factory convertibles I saw @ SEMA, Ford included). But I would be interesed in seeing YOUR Trooper chopped. With money, most anything is possible!