Joel,
Last night I was looking at the soft tops available for CJ8's. It looks like it would be a close match. I guess we'd have to call Kayline or Bestop for measurements. I too am interested in a half cab softy. If not I'll be chopping my full hard top to a half cab. Less space to heat in the winter time.
Spence

 

The original Kaiser shop manual for the Jeepster shows the various top options to be:

1) Roadster - no top, often seen with JC Whitney softtop which was probably lots cheaper than the Jeepster Convertible, and which was a "dealer option". Can be distinguised from the true convertible by conventional rear bumper and vertical rear window. Probably the second most common body style.

2) Half Cab Hardtop - aka called Jeepster Pickup, has the spare in a bizarre angled well behind the front seats. It was fairly rare.

3) Full Hard Top - aka Station Wagon - the most popular option. Some have been chopped to half-cabs (my '67 among them).

4) Jeepster Convertible - aka full soft top - Deluxe Trim, roll-down rear windows, hydraulic cylinders to fold the top, a continental-style rear bumper mounting the spare, and a hard shell cover for the folded soft top, which had an angled rear "fastback" window. Not quite as rare as pickups, but not real common, as they cost more than the other Jeepsters.

5) Half Cab Softop - it's in the manual, which even tells you how to service the top - but I have NEVER seen one on a Jeepster, and I wonder if any ever shipped to customers.

So - anybody got a factory soft half-cab? Are there any?

Gary

 

Someone on this board has a factory half cab soft top, I think. Bobster keeps trying to borrow it. /wwwthreads_images/icons/laugh.gif My Jeepster was a Jeepster pickup (halfcab hardtop) until I found a '72 wagon for parts and swapped body tubs.

Someone in the Loveland/Ft. Collins, CO has a half-cab soft top too. He lives just off of I-25 on Harmony Road, I think.

We've discussed the hardtop halfcab quite often on the board. Search halfcab and see what you come up with. There are a few of them on this board too.

Joel F.
Marquette, Michigan
Project No-Bucks
http://home.off-road.com/~nobucks/
'68 Jeepster Commando
225 V6/SM420/NP205/Dana44's

'79 Scout Traveler

 

The only one I have ever seen was in the jeepster ad's

Karl Von Kologiski
67 Jeepster Half Cab
99 Jeep Cherokee
A garage full of old British & Italian Motorcycles

 

No one has answered the question though - would a CJ-8 half cab top fit on a Jeepster?

Joel F.
Marquette, Michigan
Project No-Bucks
http://home.off-road.com/~nobucks/
'68 Jeepster Commando
225 V6/SM420/NP205/Dana44's

'79 Scout Traveler

 

I saw a half soft top for sale in the mane page (but it came with the Jeepster for sale;o). The guy didn't post an E-mail add., and a phone call fro Pa. to Ca. would be a little silly to find out it's only a bikini top (listed as having a hard top SW).

Bobster
o O||||O o
71 Jeepster "Soft Top" Wagon (mangled)
71 "Partster" wagon (donor)
70 Jeepster Half Cab
01 Wrangler

 

If you buy a scrambler half top you would waste your money. Way different, just look at the two vehicles! Geeze, the door design alone should tell you right away it would never work.

John
70 Jeepster with "Hurc package"
225 V-6 with HEI, SM465, D18, D44's, SOA on custom antiwrap springs, 36's
48 flattie 225 V-6, T14, D20, D27/D44 33's.
98 Tacoma Extended Cab V6

 

Wow John, you need to lighten up on the caffeine or something. /wwwthreads_images/icons/tongue.gif We're just kicking ideas around. Besides, if you use the hard doors from the Jeepster, It doesn't look like that outrageous of an idea.

Joel F.
Marquette, Michigan
Project No-Bucks
http://home.off-road.com/~nobucks/
'68 Jeepster Commando
225 V6/SM420/NP205/Dana44's

'79 Scout Traveler

 

It does look like an outragous idea with the jeepster doors. They are way different, how can I fluff the bad news so you don't take it that hard, it is a waste of money, plain and simple! I don;t see why someone that wants a half soft top has not gone down to the custom shop and had one made already, it would be $300 and easier than anything you can modify to fit. You just need the bows. So go get some electrical conduit and bend up some bows and drive down to the custom place and leave it to them. They make tops for anything, there is one in Wyoming that made a great top for my friends little Max 4 ATV floatable deal.

John
70 Jeepster with "Hurc package"
225 V-6 with HEI, SM465, D18, D44's, SOA on custom antiwrap springs, 36's
48 flattie 225 V-6, T14, D20, D27/D44 33's.
98 Tacoma Extended Cab V6

 

You could just say, "It won't work, and here's why..."

You don't need to fluff the bad news, you just need to lighten up. /wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif

Joel F.
Marquette, Michigan
Project No-Bucks
http://home.off-road.com/~nobucks/
'68 Jeepster Commando
225 V6/SM420/NP205/Dana44's

'79 Scout Traveler

 

Well, um geeze, er, it might work...... I just don't know sorta looks sketchy, er. hmmmm.... shure would be easier too do this, but they are all different, I am shure a watermelon would help...... Would you perfer a random answer like that? I told ya it would not work and why, light or heavy you got the info.

John
70 Jeepster with "Hurc package"
225 V-6 with HEI, SM465, D18, D44's, SOA on custom antiwrap springs, 36's
48 flattie 225 V-6, T14, D20, D27/D44 33's.
98 Tacoma Extended Cab V6

 

Joel F.
Marquette, Michigan
Project No-Bucks
http://home.off-road.com/~nobucks/
'68 Jeepster Commando
225 V6/SM420/NP205/Dana44's

'79 Scout Traveler

 

No, wait, Joel. Let me translate. Clearly Hurc is beating around the bush and it's time to get to the point. What he's saying is that anybody entertaining a CJ-8 softtop for a Jeepster would have to be a complete idiot. Anybody with half a brain can see that it would never under any circumstances have any chance of working. Any further discussion of this matter would be a complete waste of everyone's time. And furthermore, you have no right to post this nonsense, so compelling that input is compulsory, yet so stupid that it's not worth the time. Now get serious, you dimwits, and post something truly worthy of my input.

That's pretty much what I read. He tends to sugarcoat his comments, and sometimes he's just too subtle. /wwwthreads_images/icons/wink.gif

Rob
C101H

 

So, you\'re saying it won\'t work?

/wwwthreads_images/icons/laugh.gif

Joel F.
Marquette, Michigan
Project No-Bucks
http://home.off-road.com/~nobucks/
'68 Jeepster Commando
225 V6/SM420/NP205/Dana44's

'79 Scout Traveler

 

Re: So, you\'re saying it won\'t work?

That is what I ment Rob. Thanks for clearing things up.

John
70 Jeepster with "Hurc package"
225 V-6 with HEI, SM465, D18, D44's, SOA on custom antiwrap springs, 36's
48 flattie 225 V-6, T14, D20, D27/D44 33's.
98 Tacoma Extended Cab V6

 

Hey guys,

That bizzare angled mounting of the spare is where you folks with the full tops let your back seat passengers put their feet when wheeling.

Mike, '70 Pick-up in Hawaii

 

You could alway turn the seat around facing the rear so they can't see whats coming !

Karl Von Kologiski
67 Jeepster Half Cab
99 Jeep Cherokee
A garage full of old British & Italian Motorcycles