Slantback top for a Bronco, HMMWV (Humvee) style, anybody interested?

[NY-Bronco]

Now that I see it, I DIG IT!! ;D

 

[Prizefighter]

Deano, thanks for the drawing! If anybody is good with photoshop, feel free to add a picture or your own ideas. I am not well versed in that area. Keep the comments and VOTES coming.

BTW A soft top vote option was added due to the responses.

 

[Heus33]

malcomzilla had one of these on his rig (without windows)

http://www.classicbroncos.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142763


There was another user that posted up something similar in 2003 but his links don't work. He hasn't posted here in 5 yrs but maybe someone knows him:

http://www.classicbroncos.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30411

 

[trailpsycho]

The original soft-top that I had made for my Bronco by a local boat-canvas shop in Mobile back in 1994 was as described. I am not sure I have any pics of it...but I still have it in my garage... It was sort of cool and functional. The back section zippered off from about 10-12" behind the doors....which made it difficult for ease of up down...as it used only the B-pillar bar and the windshield hinge for support (the rear legs of the cage kicked back from the B-pillar for about 2.5 feet at a slope and then dropped toward the floor behind the wheel wells...so that supplied some support for the rear of the top). There were snaps down the sides (of the bed-rail) and along the top of the tailgate. It was impossible for anyone to ride in the back with the top on. It served its purpose during grad school and for a few more years until I discovered the Kayline/STC top.

I should be in the garage this weekend working on the truck, maybe I can dig it out...it wont do any good as none of the hardware is still on the Bronco and it would never fit over the family cage...but maybe I can lay it out for some pics.

Who knows maybe I do have some photos...cant recall ever taking any...we were always on the go in the Bronco, never taking pics of it.

 

[Prizefighter]

Would love to see some pics if you find some!

 

[Madgyver]

Didn't Tito photochop some pics?

 

[Prizefighter]

I think you need to build one and let us see it.;D

I called on a slantback and they already sold it. Probably beyond my skill level but I thought about meshing it with part of a hard top I have. I would want it to look nice, and as one piece, nothing slapped together.

 

[4x4jumper]

here is a photoshop version.... as requested

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/MysMK66fSKo1PUGyZ-IbATYEVvrf1qL1sks4hku02xg?feat=directlink

 

[ploidy]

here's a quick photoshop. used a ford logo for a window

 

[.94 OR]

Back in the day when I ran a bikini top, I wanted a rear bed cover that would fit over my soft top hardware and taper up to the top of the roll bar under the bikini top. I figured you could make the more vertical section out of boat top window material but it would keep things protected underneath. When it would warm up during the day, you could drop the vertical portion and in the evening when it got cold, you could put it back up. My idea wouldn't allow any passengers in the back.

 

[miikee73]

check out bikini hardtop thread,bluebronco69 has pics of his slantback soft top. I don't know how to transfer pics from one thread to another.

 

[ploidy]

I designed a custom top using net for windows...here's the rear window. I can dye it any color to match

 

[ploidy]

i can make a slant back using just net...that might look cool

 

[ploidy]

another set of windows and a dyed sample of net...

 

[custom-cruiser]

The Heep version

Smittybuilt:

 

[ploidy]

not a bad looking top

 

[JackHoleRacer]

I have been thinkin bout doing that for a while now, since i built my cage w/ a slant to it. I already have a STC top, I talked to a boat upholstery guy he said i could use all regular sot top hardware. Just make shorter back hoop.
I Digg It The Most!

 

[MartyG]

The Heep version

Smittybuilt:

Ooh....well that looks pretty sweet; that might look very cool on one of our rigs.

 

[Prizefighter]

I like it. We need something like this.

 

[Prizefighter]

A hard top version of this would be a modified half cab basically. Not just a rear section, but it covers the cab then extends downwards towards the rear behind the driver. Like a fast back after the cab. What if sections could be removed, like a modified open half cab? Visibilty could then be improved, and give an open air vehicle with sun and weather protection. Any more ideas on this?