Thread: Safari roof & front bench seat in a Defender

Originally Posted by carjunkieanon

Has anyone put a safari roof & pop up roof vents on their defender?

Has anyone put a bench seat in the front of their defender?

Wondering about keeping cooling the car when parked & have fond memories of the dog lying on the middle seat with her head on my leg as I drove the series.

I saw one done on a 130 dual cab back in 1998 at Cooma from QLD...and actually came out further than the windscreen to form a sun visor.

Its not as easy to do as on the series hard tops because the ribs were on the outside of the roof to screw them onto, now of course a flat roof and a bit more fidley to do I would think.

Legaly you would not be able to change your seat unless engineered & compliance plate fixed to cover extra seating capacity, then you couldn't take it out later unless you went thorugh the same B...S... Single cab Defenders have three seats across front therefore would be easy to get hold of centre seat from wreck maybe.

Originally Posted by RoverOne

I saw one done on a 130 dual cab back in 1998 at Cooma from QLD...and actually came out further than the windscreen to form a sun visor.

Its not as easy to do as on the series hard tops because the ribs were on the outside of the roof to screw them onto, now of course a flat roof and a bit more fidley to do I would think.

Legaly you would not be able to change your seat unless engineered & compliance plate fixed to cover extra seating capacity, then you couldn't take it out later unless you went thorugh the same B...S... Single cab Defenders have three seats across front therefore would be easy to get hold of centre seat from wreck maybe.

The easy way to deal with the lack of ribs would be to get an early 110 roof with the ribs - should be a few of them floating round by now.

John