What would you do with a T-boned DAF?

Why, make it into a convertible, slice it in two, and start customizing it, that’s what!

John de Bruin, who hails from just north of us in Mount Tabor, Vermont, is a serious DAF nut. He heads the DAF Club of America and is the one who brings up those DAFs you see at the Hemmings cruise-ins during the summer. As if anybody ever intended to challenge his dedication to DAFs, he’s recently taken on the massive project of reviving a 1966 DAF Model 32 that sustained heavy damage in an accident.

Rather than simply fix it, John used the opportunity to slice the roof off it, graft the entire front end from another DAF to it, and start welding more metal into it than most teenagers have in their mouths nowadays.

There’s actually a manual for converting a DAF sedan into a cabriolet, and, of course, John tracked down a copy and has been bracing the bejezus out of the shell, as well as patching the severe rust that infected both donor cars. John’s also documenting the process on the Hemmings Forums, so keep checking in on his progress.