Favorite Summer Driving Configuration
 

I bought my 98 TJ one year ago. This spring I started trying different open air driving configurations. I did the hardtop less doors, the doors less hardtop, the soft top with doors and windows, the soft top less doors with windows, the soft top less doors and windows, the totally topless and doorless etcetera and so forth.

I settled on the soft top less doors and windows. Keeps the sun off my cue ball and feels just as open as a Lotus 7. When it's party time, the soft top is off in under a minute. Spent 5 buck on a mirror to make it legal.

I've been running this way full time since the end of June despite the ceaseless and sometimes torrential rains we've been having and enjoyed every second of it. I have no garage so a big tarp was most helpful, as was my company's shipping department door. Sometimes detours were required to dodge showers.

How is everyone else here doing their everyday summer driving?

Hit the poll above and post a picture and/or comment below.

Cheers fellow Jeepers!!

Favorite Summer Driving Configuration
 

Wet but workable.

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Hardtop and windowless for me. :D

Sorry Rip couldn't help myself.

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That was great.
I just about pissed myself.
Cheers WJGuy.

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OK
This is sad.
63 views.
6 votes.
2 posters.
How Canadian.

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Let's get naked! I'm just about ready to put everything back, though. It's getting a bit chilly in the morning, the kids don't yet complain when I take them to school but it's coming.

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Don't know who the 4 "Other" votes are, but they all forgot to "explain"
:CALLIN:

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You're right, I was also wondering about that. Well, first I was wondering what the heck "other" might be, and then I started getting all kinds of pictures in my head... :beerchug:

http://forum.aev-conversions.com/att...2&d=1245119938

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I love it.
Where can I get on of those??
Talk about road rage. LOL

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Nice jeep. I am waiting for someone to come up with a soft back window for the hard top. Would work really nice in summer.

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You'd probably be better off with a contraption like the 4Runner had, where the rear glass window would slide in the tail gate like a "regular" window. Now that would be nice!

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More weight = Less Pep.

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Some nice wheels and tire on that baby, and we're good to go...
Actually I just like the gats and hatchets

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<Shrug> If you already use a hardtop the weight of the glass would be about the same as the current liftglass on the top. The added weight for the motor is not much, so all in all it wouldn't be that much of a difference.

I don't have a hardtop myself, so I am not sure how the Jeep would behave with one, but it must be heavier than the soft top anyway. As a nod to what you said I am strongly considering the Viking top, once they manage to come up with the LJ version, no frame on the top would definitely save some weight.

To each his own, that's a very good motto when it comes to Jeeps :-)

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Well, if I am not mistaken this is the JT look-alike that AEV is selling for the proverbial arm+leg combo with or without a Diesel or a Hemi. Check the springs in the rear, something's gotta hold all that weight :-)

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I drive mine every day so I put a hard top on in winter. It's much more user friendly that way.

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Cheers Calin!

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Any time bud, any time! :-)

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i just voted. i havent had the jeep long enough to have thought of expermenting much. i have been keeping the doors on, as i didnt have a good mirror relocator kit idea till a few days ago. thank to good people here and it is easy enough to take the windows out whenever they needed to be out

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Just voted , I have half doors, so uppers and rear windows off works for me.

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I went with "Other". It's always keep it in the garage so it usually stays with the top down and doors on. Doors come off only when I go wheelin. Hardtop is rarely ever put on. It's just an expensive ornament hanging from the ceiling in my garage.

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Doesn't anyone here have any pictures??
Without pics it's all just BS!!

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My "other" vote would be... Bikini top and soft doors. open in the back. Best way to travel.

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for me it varies. i prefer no doors no top but if the sun is intense then it is top only. in winter i use my hard top & hard doors as the soft doors let too much snow in. also i hate winter tenting! lol