Agnelli's Convertible Had a Hardtop?!?

So what am I looking at here? I recently bought some Ferrari related slides out of Italy. Supposedly from a former factory engineer's collection. Had them digitized and just got them back allowing me to zoom and study them in detail. This one REALLY stood out.

That looks to be the Agnelli convertible... the only factory convertible...on the assembly line. What's interesting is it has a flying mirror... which it does not have now. It does have the blue accents. Was this a hardtop for that car that has since vanished? Is sitting in a corner in Agnelli's garage? Is that an BMW e30 hardtop quarter window? Was this car actually a design study / prototype that was canned and repurposed as a car for Agnelli to make him feel special (haha)? What's the story with this? All the pictures I have seen of the car do not show this top. It really looks to me like it was intended as a removable hardtop. A very fascinating and compelling hardtop that would have made a convertible Testarossa much more livable than the canvas creation they stuck on it. Did the public ever see this top?

Just a really cool find and a neat addition to my slide / picture collection. Yes, that is my watermark I dropped on the images (Vintage Historics).

Enjoy.

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Great picture. It's certainly interesting... as I have been unable to find any info about what appears to be a hardtop. I'm really wondering if Enzo didn't magically come up with a convertible for Agnelli... when they had actually already been prototyping or working on one. Or perhaps the hardtop just vanished while the car was in Agnelli's possession, never to be known about or seen again.

I'll ping David Williams and see. Might be a shot of something people haven't seen in 30+ years. Thanks!

 

Here are a few others from my collection. Enjoy!