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So, I've ordered my Bronco with a soft top, to get it faster, but I really want a hard top.
I live in Sacramento, and the two likely sources that I have identified for possible hard tops are in the Los Angeles area.
I was thinking, rather than fuss with shipping, that I might just make a two-day trip, to drive to whichever place has the top I decided to buy, get it installed there, spend the night at a motel, and drive home the following day.
So, what to do with the soft top?
My initial thought was to just remove it and leave it at home, but my wife, @Seanette is very much opposed to making that long a drive without a top, and I'm not particularly fond of the idea either. I'm a cranky old man who likes the inside of my vehicle to be quite and peaceful, which is a large part of why I want a hard top in the first place, and @Seanette is similar.
So, the big question is this: If I drive down to the Los Angeles area, with my soft top installed, get it removed there and replaced with a hard top, will I be able to fold the soft top in some way that will make it possible to carry it home in the Bronco? Just how compact can it be, removed and folded?
Alternatively, I am wondering if I can also get a roof rack installed on my new hard top, while I'm in the LA area, and safely carry my soft top on that.
I don't really want the soft top, but it seems like too valuable a thing just to abandon or throw away, and that I should hang on to it in the hope that, at some later point, someone will buy it from me.
I live in Sacramento, and the two likely sources that I have identified for possible hard tops are in the Los Angeles area.
I was thinking, rather than fuss with shipping, that I might just make a two-day trip, to drive to whichever place has the top I decided to buy, get it installed there, spend the night at a motel, and drive home the following day.
So, what to do with the soft top?
My initial thought was to just remove it and leave it at home, but my wife, @Seanette is very much opposed to making that long a drive without a top, and I'm not particularly fond of the idea either. I'm a cranky old man who likes the inside of my vehicle to be quite and peaceful, which is a large part of why I want a hard top in the first place, and @Seanette is similar.
So, the big question is this: If I drive down to the Los Angeles area, with my soft top installed, get it removed there and replaced with a hard top, will I be able to fold the soft top in some way that will make it possible to carry it home in the Bronco? Just how compact can it be, removed and folded?
Alternatively, I am wondering if I can also get a roof rack installed on my new hard top, while I'm in the LA area, and safely carry my soft top on that.
I don't really want the soft top, but it seems like too valuable a thing just to abandon or throw away, and that I should hang on to it in the hope that, at some later point, someone will buy it from me.
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