Chopped roof idea for 4Runner

[YotaFun]

My 86' cost me 10 bucks a month, liability + un-insured motorist, in insurance and I have three vehicles and two perfect drivers ? I also live in Cali. Buy a 1st gen for the price your gonna invest.

do you guys have clean driving records?
I tired to price together insurance for me to get a 88 Runner and still ended up paying 250!
I am chalking it up to my speeding ticket and my once accident where i totaled my car...

^^ What he said. The older they are the cheaper to insure. I'm 22 and my '83 is peanuts to insure.

[NC994Run]

I know insurance wouldn't be that much, but I don't have a place to keep a 3rd vehicle and it's just another vehicle where some part could go bad or fail, plus it would be stock, whereas my 3rd gen is F+R Locked, geared, with 35's and F+R bumpers winch, lift, etc. so it would be a lot of $$$ to get an older model up to the wheeling capability.

I have considered a 1st gen in the past, but for the couple grand I would invest in that, I could probably do this.

Thanks for the ideas though

[thook]

Avy, it helps to get married............but, don't go doing that!

[avstanley]

I like the idea of turning a 3rd gen into an open air truck similar to a 1st gen. It sounds like you have it pretty well outfitted, so it would be shame to have to start over with a new truck. I look forward to seeing the results if you go trough with it.

[Whitey]

More or less, I want to replace the roof sheet metal and rear glass with a removable canvas top, I've also been toying the idea of trying to add a truck style tailgate and eliminating the rear hatch, but nothing is set in stone right now

[NC994Run]

My idea would be like that except with the soft top covering the seating area as well

[neliconcept]

here it is from my perspective of what you want

then of course you would cut all the way up to the sunroof leaving about 1 inch on either side for the door jams and reinforcing the side parts with another part of the cage id assume

http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?i...cn04542ef5.jpg

[Cabin2N]

Not quiet as much cutting as you where talking about, but if you did this and left the back window open, it would be a lot of air flow.
http://www.jpmagazine.com/techarticl...oof/index.html
I saw Stacy David from Trucks! put one on a tocoma or something. I you feel you have a steady hand with a sawz-all you could do this yourself.

[slosurfer]

Not quiet as much cutting as you where talking about, but if you did this and left the back window open, it would be a lot of air flow.
http://www.jpmagazine.com/techarticl...oof/index.html
I saw Stacy David from Trucks! put one on a tocoma or something. I you feel you have a steady hand with a sawz-all you could do this yourself.

That is really cool!!!! I just added that to my favorites.

[Whitey]

That is a factory option on new jeep liberty's.