Full convertable 1985 K5 / Bikini top question

LGM, If I remember correctly you are off-roading/Mudding this truck. The half cab is rollover protection. Think long & hard about this, K?

Gman, The best thing you can do is find one of those older styles that you like (I think they were pre-76?), and throw an 88-92 front clip on it. Here's a link of what you'd have to change to do that, as modifying the firewall looks alot easier than modifying the rest of the truck:

Jeremy

Ya that half cab give structural integrity for that body style. But still, I'm gonna cut the roof off my '80 pickup, It's my wheeler, it'll have roll bars when that day comes.

Think long & hard about using a stock roof for roll over protection.

rollbar for me!

I was actually wondering if I wanted to design a rollbar that fit the 'contours' of a cap, and then have a bikini made custom for it and just forget about the hard top?

~TLGM

Think about where you're going to be 'wheeling......rocks? mud? sand?

Try to get a rollbar to stay on top of mud or sand with the whole truck pushing down on it......and then think about trying to breathe under mud while you try to get out of your blazer.....

Jeremy

I you've rolled in a mud pit, you've done something very very wrong, anyways there's plenty of open air cabs around here with full exo-cages . Here in the rockies once you hit the trails, that's a whole different ballgame.

Hit the side of the pit too fast trying to get out?

I'm just posing possible problems....don't know where G is, or what he plans to do with the blazer.....I, too, have seen many exo bars without any other protection, but I'd never ride in one....

Jeremy

Well I think short of having my cap on I'd get just as muddy in a half cap, water doesn't care where it gets in. However I do see your point. Nothing is set in stone, I'm trying to think of more options to get what I want.

~KJ~