Soft Top Identification

Hello all,
Needing some help getting some info on a old soft top, I've read and looked at lots of pictures and can't say what it's for or who made it any help would be great. thanks

 

Might be a Whitco.

 

Does it look like a model for cj5?

 

The doors are usually the best tell for what it fits. It doesnt look serviceable at all however with the discolored windows. A top that old would be likely to come undone at the seams and blow away the first time you drove down the road.

 

What do you look for on doors for which jeep it goes on? I know the top is old mostly interested in it for the door frames and the bow's. I planned on using the top as a patern for a new top.

 

The lower angles on the doors don't look right-the angles look too sharp, at least for a CJ5. See if they line up with.your door openings.
-Donny

 

40 plus years ago, when I made plywood doors for a '47 CJ2A, if I remember correctly, I mitered in a bend--in other words, the door wasn't flat. Maybe you can see a bend in your door frame rods???

Here's some search info.>>>Newbie Help With Soft Tops and Doors?

 

I looked at my door frames didn't see any bends, I think it is a cj2a top. From the bows and grommets on the top.

 

Does any one know if the door frames are the same for original canvas tops? Cj2a and cj5?

 

The CJ2a/CJ3/M38 flat fender Jeeps usually have an angle bent in the lower part of the door frame to account for the angle in the door opening where the body kicks in toward the firewall. The CJ5/6 and M38A-1 have straight sides, so no angle in the door frame either.
The easiest way to tell a flat-fender top apart from a CJ5 top is to lay the top out flat and see if the forward section tapers to the windshield, or stays parallel. The CJ5 windshield channel is about 56" wide, so the top should be around 58" at the leading edge. A flat-fender top will be noticably narrower at the leading edge.
Does someone have actual measurements handy?
-Donny

 

The top appears to be a Kayline Luxair. The skinny side and rear windows are the clue there.
The standard version doesn't have zippered sides; Luxair does.
The doors...appear to be CJ5 but better pictures would help.
The doors are not MB/2A/3A...could be CJ5.....if the flaps were pulled out from the doors we could tell.
Donny is correct on the bend in the lower door frame for 2A/3A.

 

Thanks all I'll try to get better pictures tommorow. Im away from my cj5 for work, found the top for sale on Craigslist figured even if it's not a cj5 top it might be good trade stock?

 

Looking again at your photos of your top, I have a couple questions. I was looking to see if I could tell if it tapered at the windshield end. I can't really determine this because the front isn't laying flat, but I see something along the leading edge, dark spots at a regular interval. Are these snaps? All CJ 5 tops I have seen have a rope sewn in that slides in a channel on the windshield frame.
Also, along the zipper area on the rear window, I see a rectangular piece near the upper right corner, andmaybe more across the top under the zipper flap. Are these metal fasteners for 1" straps that would fasten to the tailgate?
Definately features of an early top I am not familiar with, and I am thinking from flat-fendered Jeeps I am not as familiar with.
-Donny

 

It does have grommets on it. The rear flap has straps but they are have there.

 

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