1983 D110 soft top

[gmoudy]

Just found the forum - looks great! Thought I'd share a couple of pics of my D110 in both hard top, soft top and no top configurations.

[ArmyRover]

Very nice rig! I really don't like you at all.

Welcome aboard.

[TerryS]

I've seen a few 5 door soft top conversions, but none where the B pillar was cut down from the top mounting point at the roof.
How was this done on yours, and still be rigid enough?
how did you do the rear door mods? Is the rear door trim piece a front door capping, or made up special?
Nice looking job, all in all.

[gmoudy]

Thanks for the comments. This 110 was originally a 2-door hard top. A previous owner cut the rear doors into the body and redid the floorboard to work suitably. There is a bar running behind the front seats to connect the B-pillars for stability. The roll-bar also has b-pillars as well, but that isn't very visible in the pictures. I don't have a pic of the frame work (which is 2" square tubing) without the canvas to show the detail. B-pillars and C-pillars were cut with a hacksaw and brackets made to re-attach the hardtop. Since all that part was custom, I'm not familiar with how a factory 4-door would be modified.

[TerryS]

That doesn't make sense to me. The first picture shows a conventional 5 door station wagon, not a 3 door. The B pillar on a 5 door is an upsidedown 'T' shaped piece, which also makes the 'C' pillar, and is only used on the 5 door. The top of the T bolts to the roof between the doors, the front to the bulkhead outrigger, and the rear end goes up inside the tub and makes up the rear door frame. The 'B' pillar (per se) on the 3 door is really not a pillar, but the leading edge of the tub and leading edge of the roof.
What you say about a frame work going from one side of the cutdown T to the other makes sense, but I don't see any rollbar in the third picture.
I wish you were closer so I could look at the details.

[gmoudy]

I understand your confusion. Let me try to clarify. When the 2 door was converted to a 4 door, the previous owner fashioned a frame for the door from square tubing. He simply attached the body skin to the tubing and fashioned the rear door from tubing as well. It actually looks good up close. In the third picture, there is no roll bar. The only support for the post between the doors is a pipe that runs between the posts just behind the front seats. It is not visible in the picture. I didn't really use the Rover in this form - it always had the soft-top frame on when I went in the bush for the stability and roll-over protection, not to mention shade from the hot equatorial sun! I wish I had up close pictures for you - but I don't. Sorry.