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It all started with an attempt to paint the cappings, you can see the right hand capping in the pics above is fresh silver while the left hand is flaky old black paint.

I decided to take the side off to paint the capping properly, plan was to do one side at a time:


Check out my custom new roof support

Anyway, with it being such a nice day, as soon as some extra hands turned up we whipped the roof off for a summers drive!

It's not complete until you fold the windscreen down

It took me long enough to undo all the bolts for the roof - seriously how many are needed?! Land Rover could have halved their production costs just by using a reasonable number of bolts

The windscreen will be down for the next trip - I need to get a tail gate too...

Very tempted to take the roof off my 109! I think it would make the noise a bit less deafening. The things stopping me are that I wouldn't be able to leave all my tools in it that I do at the moment and I use my roof rack quite a lot.

You've gotta try it - next sunny day/weekend that you get a chance!

It's made me rethink my rebuild plans, I was going to keep the hardtop, fit 1 piece door seals, carpet the roof and fit a CB, stereo and speakers up there - but then I wouldn't be able to take the roof off...

Careful though, the roof is quite light but with a rack attached it's chuffin heavy - don't try it with just you and the missus as despite saying she can manage, she lift it wrong, will drop it and almost break your windows, and her back... guess how I know lol

....and you tell yourself " I'll just take it off for the summer" and suddenly it's January, you're scraping snow off the seat and wondering why the heater doesn't seem to do much any more. Be warned!

(best comment I got was from my evening class welding instructor - "Eh, look at t'posh b****** - ees got a f****** cabriolet!")

Sadly I ain't got a garage for either Landy or roof so it can only come off on guaranteed sunny days, then goes back on at night - soggy seats aren't for me

On a side note, does anybody know the legality of driving without a rear door/tailgate? Obviously having nothing in the back to fall out but it this legal?

that's better then boobies...

"It's not complete until you fold the windscreen down"

D'you wanna see a picture of my gaylander with the roof off little boy?

bushwwacker said:

D'you wanna see a picture of my gaylander with the roof off little boy?

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Haha only if you fold the windscreen down too

Freetime101 said:

On a side note, does anybody know the legality of driving without a rear door/tailgate? Obviously having nothing in the back to fall out but it this legal?

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Can't say it's definitely legal but I ran mine without a tailgate for months with no probs from the police and was seen by plenty. No different from a scaffold truck was my theory!

What difference does a tailgate make as long as nothing is flying out of the back then why not

Freetime101 said:

Sadly I ain't got a garage for either Landy or roof so it can only come off on guaranteed sunny days, then goes back on at night - soggy seats aren't for me

On a side note, does anybody know the legality of driving without a rear door/tailgate? Obviously having nothing in the back to fall out but it this legal?

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Tonneau cover - aka a bit of tarpaulin and some rope! I drove around for ages with a tailgate made from two lengths of speedframe (1" square steel tube) for uprights from the hinges, some recycled pallet wood and a couple of door bolts.

Go on take the wind screen off! Get some sunglasses on for the flies/grit etc. Its like riding a motorcycle with four wheels only no helmet required. I drove one I rebuilt, all summer last year like this and there's nothing like it. I just covered it with a tarp at night and took it all over. Off road it was absolutely brilliant and got great respect and envious looks from the eurobox drivers.

when you are driving with the window down remember to keep your mouth closed

unless you are hungry and flies are a big part of your diet

Innzy said:

Can't say it's definitely legal but I ran mine without a tailgate for months with no probs from the police and was seen by plenty. No different from a scaffold truck was my theory!

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the_wolf said:

What difference does a tailgate make as long as nothing is flying out of the back then why not

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Yeah I figured as much, using common sense an all - but the law doesn't always use common sense

Anyway I did a bit more googling and it seems to be legal so long as your number plate and lights are visible and nothing can fall out - the confusion seems to come from cars where the plate and lights are on the boot itself.

Cheers

radagast1 said:

Go on take the wind screen off! Get some sunglasses on for the flies/grit etc. Its like riding a motorcycle with four wheels only no helmet required. I drove one I rebuilt, all summer last year like this and there's nothing like it. I just covered it with a tarp at night and took it all over. Off road it was absolutely brilliant and got great respect and envious looks from the eurobox drivers.

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Yeah I think I'm gonna have to keep the roof removable

I have a plan though - I'll put all the electrical gubbins in the roof (CB, stereo, speakers, aerials etc) and then just run a live cable up there with a plug/connector - then the whole lot can come off