Tropical / Safari roof's on Defenders?

Twas Sun, 4 Apr 2004 12:06:07 +0200 when "Glenn Crawford" put finger to keyboard producing:

the 'project 110' over at difflock.com came with a series 3 safari roof, perhaps due to that is had a custom windscreen.

A similar effect can be achieved using a full-length roof rack with a wood or metal floor.

-- Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.) ___________________________________________________________ "To know the character of a man, give him anonymity" - Mr.Nice.

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Aha yet another bonus point for series 3 over the latter day coil spring copies.

, we could look at getting a 2nd-hand County or

Its a Series w/screen.

If you put a Series roof on a Def you cant use the original windscreen seeing as how its taller and the original roof is so shaped to allow for this.

I cant see why you couldnt just remove the tropical roof bit and attach it to a standard Def roof if thats what you wanted, use suitable spacers and bolts as appropriate.

Mike.

In news:406fdc50$1 snipped-for-privacy@news.cybercity.ch, Glenn Crawford wrote: | Greetings All, | | Has anyone ever heard of a tropical / safari roof on a Defender? I | know that with the advent of Defenders LR started putting the | reinforcing struts on the inside of the roof, instead of the outside | like the Series (and the County's?). This killed off having a | tropical roof on them for the time, however I was wondering if anyone | had thought about or seen someone put on one a Defender? | | I have a '94 300Tdi, and I'd like to put a tropical roof on there to | keep it cool when we go touring the north end of Australia (still a | long way in the future, but planning takes time). Was thinking that | if the only problem was the reinforcement struts, we could look at | getting a 2nd-hand County or Series vehicle roof and replacing my | Defender roof with it. Then we could put a tropical roof on that. | | Of course there's always the other option of somehow having the | tropical roof secured through the existing Defender roof.... can | anyone see any possible legal problems with putting a tropical roof | on a Defender? Can anyone see anything wrong with the idea that | we've missed? | | Looking forward to your responses. | | Cheers, | | | Glenn & Rin. | | -- | -- | 4 April 2004, 11:57:27 AM (Switzerland) | -- | This is a tagline mirror -->

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Interesting this... I wonder if a safari roof counts towards the 75kg max roof loading? D'oh!

Thanks for all the responses so far guys, it's been interesting reading.

If you ask me its all a loada bollox

Theretically then if I stand on the roofrack I exceed the magical figure and all collapses into a heap of dust. Well just t ain't so.

On or around Fri, 9 Apr 2004 23:07:12 +0100, "Larry" enlightened us thusly:

yeah, but the recommendations are for loads when driving, so unless yer gonna do the teenwolf things and pretend to surf on the roof of yer landy...