110 hard top to soft top?

[andycskis]

So I'm selling my car and have wanted a defender since I was young (ended up with a golf initially, cheaper insurance). I quite like the idea of a 110 soft top for the summer but being able to put a hard top back on in the winter and for outside the house as I live in central london for insurance and alarm.

Budget for 110 about £4-5k and I was thinking a 300tdi with about 60k miles as TD5's look expensive and I have heard good things about the 300's. Put a small roll hoop that could fit under the hard top behind front seats and possibly at the back door for rear passengers who would sit on some rear benches.

So I'm basically trying to find out if this is do-able without going mad with budget and how much it would roughly cost to do?

[phib]

I would have thought that you are looking at 2-3.5k to convert I did my 90 and it was about 2k all in to do it properly. Worth looking at this


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Phib

p.s. I had assumed that you were trying to do a station wagon rather than the pick up ( a pick up will be much cheaper and easier

Edited by phib on Monday 14th June 14:19

[300bhp/ton]

andycskis said:

So I'm selling my car and have wanted a defender since I was young (ended up with a golf initially, cheaper insurance). I quite like the idea of a 110 soft top for the summer but being able to put a hard top back on in the winter and for outside the house as I live in central london for insurance and alarm.

Budget for 110 about £4-5k and I was thinking a 300tdi with about 60k miles as TD5's look expensive and I have heard good things about the 300's. Put a small roll hoop that could fit under the hard top behind front seats and possibly at the back door for rear passengers who would sit on some rear benches.

So I'm basically trying to find out if this is do-able without going mad with budget and how much it would roughly cost to do?

It's all possible, just depends on exactly what you are after.

The Landy basically unbolts, so a bit of time, soe spanners and maybe a mate or two can easily remove a hard top.

As for fitting a soft top, well this then comes down to what you want to achieve. 110's can be had in 3 and 5 door variants, a 3 door would normally be a hard top, but not sure if you are meaning county spec or not with the extra row of seats.

If the latter then it'd be a different ball came, if the former then you could go for a Land Rover spec tilt or after market.

Mil spec 110's have a full tilt like this:



You'd need the main hoop, jocky sticks (the other poles), the canvas, upper seat belt mounting points and the bracket to hold the tilt on the top of the windscreen.

This will not fit under a hard top and will all need removing should you wish to fit the hard top.

No idea on prices, but new and used are available, used being cheaper.

But there are more modern tops from various suppliers the world over, but they may cost more.

[andycskis]

Thanks guys, sorry to clear up I meant the 3 door van style.