Popular Post Peaklander Posted June 18, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted June 18, 2017 Look what came onto the campsite in Ireland where I stayed over the weekend.... The owner is rightly very proud of it and it's certainly effective. Fully reversible too, so no 'damage' to the originality of the vehicle. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 I like that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marktdi Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Very nice did he make it his self Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaklander Posted June 19, 2017 Author Share Posted June 19, 2017 Yes he did. We had a good chat and a look over it. He had two attempts at the front hinges, finding that it needed to lift away from the top of the windscreen there. The hardest bit was working out the template for the material. I seem to remember @Jocklandjohn saying something similar in his thread. The whole family slept inside 2+2. Total cost €250! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retroanaconda Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Looks a great vehicle. Love the fairy lights! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickeyw Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 I have seen that method of tipping before. First time was on a foreign D130 station wagon I saw in the car park at Newbury. Apparently it is a commercially available kit on the continent. If this chap made his own, then fair play - it looks very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaklander Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 It was definitely home brew. He pointed out all the design 'weaknesses'. Yes the fairy lights looked great too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwhacker Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Very nice indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davo Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 That's an idea about as old as the first hard-tops, and this particular example is nicely done. (*Rant: it drives me crazy that during the usual "what's the new Defender going to be like" arguments, so many people fail to understand that what makes older Land-Rovers so good to own is being able to do things like this. Apologies for the slight thread redirection.) Here's another version I found somewhere on the internet some time ago: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaklander Posted June 24, 2017 Author Share Posted June 24, 2017 Thanks Davo. That's got an up-stand that holds the top of the rest of the body pieces together, with the roof then planted back on top of that. It is a key element of the conversion I think. I was interested in the Alu-cab roof for a Defender, having seen a few at the Stratford overland show last year. In fact I was in Cape Town with my wife earlier this year and knocked on the door of the factory that makes them and asked if we could look around. They were very happy to give us an impromptu tour. It was very interesting to see them working through a batch of the up-stands. They also make a whole lot of whisper - Land Cruiser trayback camper conversions and these are very complex, complete units. All in all it was a busy place. The final decision on the roof is that it is just too spendy and anyway you still have to kit out the rest as a camper to get complete independence and that's further spendy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilkyWilkie Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 The first Landy I ever went in (and that started my passion) many years ago was our next door neighbours Series with a similar top when we lived in Stubbington. I think we went with them to pick it up, blue if I recall but it was a good 25 years ago... I'm sure I remember them calling it a dormobile - which seems to tie up as there is a dormobile that make lifting roofs for landys. I wonder if they're still around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snagger Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 That is a great job for a complete DIY fabrication. If he can get the fabric to be self tensioning, so the wind doesn't ake it flap noisily, it'll be better still. I have a vague plan to do something similar, but using a flat plate of the same plan as the gutter channel extending about 3" inside the roof line and then having upwards lips of a couple of inches, essentially a perimeter of angle section around the top of the body to attach the fabric, and then extend the inside of the gutter upwards to make attachment points for the upper edge of the fabric, the aim being to achieve a similar result but with a near invisible alteration to the exterior when closed - just the outer edge of the angle, which should be only 2-3mm. I like these pop roofs in principle, I just don't like the way they change the lines closed. Option two is a full-length vertically extending roof using the same method, but folding that much fabric over the windscreen would be a challenge without a huge "shelf" at roof line on the front (not impossible). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jocklandjohn Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 On 6/19/2017 at 3:47 PM, Peaklander said: Yes he did. We had a good chat and a look over it. He had two attempts at the front hinges, finding that it needed to lift away from the top of the windscreen there. The hardest bit was working out the template for the material. I seem to remember @Jocklandjohn saying something similar in his thread. The whole family slept inside 2+2. Total cost €250! Oh yes. Oh yes. The fabric pattern is a bugger! I had an 'expert' do my sewing - having given him dimensions and him measuring and inspecting the vehicle AND I explained several times to him that the swing up design means that the bottom of the fabric is NOT a straight line as you'd assume - he still got it wrong! Made a beautiful job of it mind you, just wrong! Here's the diagram: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaklander Posted June 30, 2017 Author Share Posted June 30, 2017 I really like your roof JJ. It's a very good look. Yes that fabric triangle is isoscles not a right angled one. It's quite clear from your sketch and with hindsight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landie Les Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Really like the look of the roof on the orange vehicle, it appears to have a much lower profile than the others.What sort of fabric is used? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaklander Posted December 10, 2017 Author Share Posted December 10, 2017 I'm afraid I don't know. I'll perhaps contact the owner and ask. I have his details somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arjan Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 (edited) We have just complete stage 2 of the "create standing hight in a 110" project : fitted the Roll Cage. So what we do is a bit different from what this topic is about.. In Holland, several options are on the market and this has to be one of the lowest profile ones Most conversions raise the roof by some 80 mm This one bij about 10 mm For the Series conversions a very workable solution - basically 4 pieces of a 6-10 mm.thick steel strip, welded on the corners and bent over the rear door to keep everything in place when the roof was up. Very simple, very workable and not too expensive. The fabric is usually HD tent fabric. For those interested, I have more pics of this conversion and others... As I said, we are doing it a bit different as we had to have a full external roll cage and that is a bit complicated to mix with a full pop up roof... Edited December 10, 2017 by Arjan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snagger Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Exactly what I had in mind, Arjan, and I'd love to see more. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AV8R Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 10 hours ago, Arjan said: For those interested, I have more pics of this conversion and others... Yes please, very interested in more pics and information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arjan Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 De club in Harderwijk leverde dit als kit. There was a supplier in Harderwijk, NL, that sold this kit. Due to tax reasons, camper conversions in Holland are very difficult.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon W Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Would love to see more, as the big wedge most pop tops have just look wrong, whereas the standard look is so much better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arjan Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 (edited) Goede Avond, Back from a trip playing with trains - the real biggish ones - and too tired to go to bed, I'll try to post some pics of said roof conversion. In Holland, this conversion is now it seems killed by the taxman so it seems they stopped selling them. We're now in stage IIA of the conversion of the 110. Stage III will be an engine swop once I have time... Hope these help some Edited December 31, 2017 by Arjan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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