Bringing back an older post and making some clearifacations for you all.
I own the Silver convertible as well as a red one I just recently picked up.
The 1gen convertible crx or Straman crx was a dealer option and was autherized by Honda to be build, Straman did not buy the cars and then convert them. You could get them one of two ways, buy the car from the dealer and take it to Staman Coachwork and have it converted or have the dealer have them do it. Some dealers had it done and then put the car on the lot for sale, eather way the conversion was $4,995.00 on top of the price of the car. The car still came with full factory warrenty and met all safety standards of the time, they are built extreamely well and are much more ridged then the hardtop crx.
Most of the convertibles from the 80's are coach convertible and not factory convertibles but for some reason people like to badmouth the crx convertible more then any of the others I've noticed. Here is a list of coach convertibles, this entire list is coach company built and not factory convertibles.
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coach_convertible
As for the hood on my silver convertible it is a one piece carben fiber zc hood from Heel toe made for the 1gen crx by Marcus, it is not swapped from another car.
Hope that helps a little, if you have any other questions feel free to ask.
Doug