Instead of starting from scratch, could you approach Honda to do a limited run of tops?

All these folks that are clamoring for a hardtop balk at forking over the $5000-$6000 for a used OEM hardtop, what on earth makes you think they would pay for an even more expensive version?

And, honestly, I feel like the only reason why the hardtop is in such demand is because of "collecters" and parts hoarders who want to up their cache, like lookey me I gots the rares parts...and those folks are looking for OEM. I feel confident in saying the majority of owners aren't interested in them outside of the financial speculation.

That is not to say, that there aren't some who are interested in a hardtop for whatever silly reason they concoct in their head (I kid! Kinda :p). But again, how many of those are willing to fork over real money and more importantly still, CAN fork over the money? My guess is not many are willing to do so.

On a side note, it's pretty satisfying when you meet one of these douche speculator owners who are all like, "I has the OEM hardtop" and their smug faces drop when you're not impressed cuz you tell them the only time you drive the car is when you can have the top down.