Hybrid top?

[Strahan]

I don't suppose there is any vendor out there somewhere who makes a hybrid soft/hard top is there? I was thinking tonight how cool it would be if there was a top that was a hard shell over the rear passenger area of the Jeep and a soft cover / targa top style in the front. The worst part of putting the top up is fighting with those ($#%^%$! zipper on windows. When I go topless, I only care about the area above my head being clear to the sky.

I assume no such thing exists, so I will likely just buy one of those conversion kits to make it fold back like the JKs do, but I was thinking a hard top rear would be awesome. Especially if the glass windows would easily pop in and out. Kinda like the flip of a late model K5 Blazer / Bronco top removal functionality.

 

[fourpointzero]

That I know of, no such top exists commercially for TJ's.

I love the 'sunrider' feature of my softop. I bought the parts from a gentleman on Ebay that pieced together a kit called 'flip ur top'. I almost never take out my windows after installing the 'sun roof' feature.


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[glwood]

I don't suppose there is any vendor out there somewhere who makes a hybrid soft/hard top is there? I was thinking tonight how cool it would be if there was a top that was a hard shell over the rear passenger area of the Jeep and a soft cover / targa top style in the front. The worst part of putting the top up is fighting with those ($#%^%$! zipper on windows. When I go topless, I only care about the area above my head being clear to the sky.

I assume no such thing exists, so I will likely just buy one of those conversion kits to make it fold back like the JKs do, but I was thinking a hard top rear would be awesome. Especially if the glass windows would easily pop in and out. Kinda like the flip of a late model K5 Blazer / Bronco top removal functionality.

The only things out there are two-piece hardtops, I would imagine, and I've never had one so I wouldn't know how much trouble it is to take off the front of the top and/or where you store that when off. I know Bestop makes a sunrider you add to front of the JK freedom top that replaces the freedom panels, but I am sure they have no plans for a TJ version, as that market is shrinking. If someone had one of those two-piece hardtops, they might be able to tell you what would be involved in designing and implementing a sunrider front like you are asking about..

 

[Chris]

Nope, I've never seen anything like this unfortunately.

 

[Sunder]

The "closest" thing I've seen commercially is the Trektop NX Soft Top. (I think that was the version)

It's still a soft top...but the material is so thick, stiff and tight, (I swear I'm not trying to allude to a certain writing genre), it feels "close" to a hard top.
The version I saw had rigid windows.

My Besttop has a little sun flip above me. It opens up about 2 feet - not the entire driver side. But it takes 10 seconds to flip up or down. (Well, it used to until I put my roof rack over it...)

 

[Strahan]

Yea, I figured that was a "unicorn" heh. I guess I'll just get the "flip your top" thing and see if that satisfies, thanks all