custom runner top

[d3m0n1c_4b]

only just saw this section so thought i'd post it here. just wondering if anyone here has a runner and has done a custom top of any type. hard/soft anything. just want some ideas. looking at doing a fastback style so that it would look like the pic below. just dont know whether to try it hard top or to try and get a soft top made. i have rough plans for a fast back style soft top(rough measurements and layout from a guy in the states who was kind enough to share them with me) it's only rough but i did it one day when i got bored at school(yr 12 can get pretty boring) like i said when i posted this before, i only got it half done and scanned then i lost the original so yeah.
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u286/psychotic_me/carfastback.jpg?t=1183373636

[Struth]

Soft top as drawn would look pretty cool I think.

Cheers

[A1 Mech]

Hav u takin the plans to a trimmers/fabricator. Anything is possible and Im sure it cud be made but I dare say it wud cost quiet a bit. C if thers a mob overseas that makes them and hav one shipped ova, mite work out cheaper

[d3m0n1c_4b]

places over seas make them, but not fast back style. and the best one i could find(only one i could find still in production actually,i think) was 1500 plus shipping(that's already in aussy gold). so yeah.

[A1 Mech]

i dont think u cud hav one made for much cheaper anyhow, c how u go

[billdoggy]

i know you want real info but have you tried fiberglass manufacturing places for a price on altering your existing? don't forget to disable that pain in the arse leccy window. also looking at 4x4 magazines from early 90's and saw an add for a soft top for the gen 1 4 runner, most of those companys are shut by now you might have access .

[Crunch]

A fast back hrd top would be sexy as...

A soft top would just be a custom job. But if you had a roll cage going from the middle and angled down to the back (like in your pic) then that would be teh cool. Dave Camp post-chop style.

I like the concept. and I have a spare canopy in the shed. Now I'm getting ideas :D:D

[d3m0n1c_4b]

oi, not before me you dont. and yes, i will be removing that ******* pain in the **** leccy window. bloody hate that thing. prob just go something like a normal ute canopy window style, but i'll prob have to get it made up custom coz it will have to be larger than a normal seeing as how its on and angle. also i'll be changing thos sliding windows, the ones that have the metal frame around them and have rusted on just about every bloody runner, and replacing them with something else so that they are completely removable or they pop out at the rear end. yeah there's a guy at archerfield i think that says he does "any" custom soft top, but he didnt reply to my email so yeah, not sure if i still the web page, have to look.
thanks for the feedback guys, nice to know what people think. i think i'd rather a hard top fastback(even having a soft top would be cool) but the hard top would be heaps more secure.

[Tower]

gday mate i have a 86 runner and if you find a place to customise your hard top or a place to do soft top work lit could you let me know as im in south brissy aswell and looking to change the look of mine.

[d3m0n1c_4b]

will do mate.:thumb: if i find a place i'll prob post it in here somewhere.

[phlip7]

have seen a couple of different soft-tops driving around Darwin in the last couple of weeks, both where of a different design, both looked OK but where sagging in the back

[Crunch]

I have a mate thats a sail-maker, I'll see if he wants to do a batch of Soft-tops...

[d3m0n1c_4b]

that'd be awsome cheers. people have said to me to just check out boat trimming places, or for a hardtop just check out fibreglassing places. but i prob wont get a chance to do that for a while so yeah.

[Celt's]

Hey mate check out Ozbinders members rig thread for a great looking fastback softop. May be able to give you some ideas as well.