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My guess is that's an early production car from the press pool at VWOA. I've seen several early cars, usually photographed for brochures or something similar, that also had brushed stainless targa bars. Maybe it was optional, for a while. I think there's another one in this thread. No doubt some of them got built.
That said, I've seen errors in the brochures. If you look at enough of them, you'll find ROW cars in US brochures, or cars that were actually from the previous year, etc. If you look carefully at Porsche's publicity photo showing the finished production of 20 911SC/RS models, for homologation purposes, you'll notice one they stuck way in the back that's just a standard white 911...
All I can tell you is that there's no option code for it in the parts database, no part number for a brushed stainless targa bar, etc. No doubt some of them got built.
Part of me wants to say that in 1978, bright trim was standard on the coupes, and black was optional; and on targas, it was the reverse. In any event, when you got black trim, it was all black and when you got bright trim, it was all bright. I've never seen a half black, half bright car.
Notice the black targa and 911SC badges in the C&D article.
JR
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