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Offline velojym

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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2012, 11:05:36 am »
Quote from: bake74 on February 11, 2012, 08:43:56 am
     I would think it has to be more like a rag top say like on a old bug.  If you completely cut the roof off, I think the 4 doors just sticking there all rounded on the tops would look funny, just my opinion.

I kinda like this idea. It maintains more of the structural strength (with some reinforcement, of course), I like the look... or at least the way I see it in my mind, and it doesn't scream "Steal my stuff!!!" to any passing lowlife with a knife and a hankering for easy loot.
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Offline Hollowman

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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2012, 11:57:40 am »
Ah, rag top, now I understand! Sure, there is one (much newer) Suburban with that that I've seen. I actually never drove one of those or any real convertible either, I just figured it's better to go "all in", if it's a car just for the summer anyway...?
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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2012, 10:11:45 pm »
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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #18 on: February 16, 2012, 03:55:35 am »
Pretty sweet!!!
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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #19 on: February 17, 2012, 06:44:25 pm »
I asked my old lady to draw what I want, just something to show you the idea, and here it is... What do you think about it?
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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #20 on: February 17, 2012, 07:05:56 pm »
Wow!!  that is nice!!
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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #21 on: February 17, 2012, 10:20:57 pm »
Post a bigger pic
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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #22 on: February 18, 2012, 05:49:40 am »
It would only let me put a 256 k picture up, and I don't have a place to put it online to just link it.
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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #23 on: February 18, 2012, 04:02:19 pm »
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It would only let me put a 256 k picture up, and I don't have a place to put it online to just link it.

Here ya go..


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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #24 on: February 19, 2012, 04:09:27 pm »
Thanks! What do you all think about it?
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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2012, 06:43:19 pm »
Looks like a longbed Blazer with the door window frame completely cut off. Doesn't look like a Suburban. Are you planning on welding up the rear doors?
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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #26 on: February 19, 2012, 07:27:43 pm »
If that is the look you are going for, just cut the roof off of a pickup truck, make a walk through behind the cab, bolt a seat in and you the body work is a lot less...  The extra bit of wheelbase of a truck, just something to think about...
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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #27 on: February 20, 2012, 12:08:55 am »
Long bed Blazer? It actually existed? Anyway, this is not something that is going to happen! It was just an idea I had, before realizing, as you say, that it would be much easier to just make it out of a pick-up if I am going to weld the rear doors shut anyway. I just thought it was a nice idea to get a drawing of it, since I never saw one made.
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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #28 on: February 20, 2012, 07:51:06 pm »
No there was no such thing as a long bed Blazer but that's what you drew there essentially.
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Re: Suburban convertible
« Reply #29 on: February 21, 2012, 12:14:13 am »
Yes, because that was the idea I had in mind.  8)
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