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Farthest you've traveled with no doors

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#1 ·
Anyone have some serious doorless road trips? Farthest I've gone is about three hours to the beach.

And possibly another topic, Anyone ever get caught in serious crazy weather while top/doorless?

This 60° Weather in PA has got me thinking about summer!
 
#2 ·
I drive to work sometimes doorless, not often because the fuel mileage is atrocious with the doors off.

I drove 65 miles topless in a torrential downpour to watch my son play soccer only to have the match canceled and turn right around and drive another 90 back. The plastic bag on the seat seemed like a good move at first but ended up just being a large bucket of water to sit in.
 
#5 ·
Mostly to off roading events with my doors off is the farthest as I live not too far from the beach. I have drove to San Diego to La with doors and top off also to Big bear and Cleghorn trails all 100 + or - 30 miles or so.

I normally got better gas mileage w/ top and doors off. But I have a soft top to the slack causes friction on the highway. last night 13.4 miles to the gallon with top on same trip with top off 15.6 per gallon.
 
#7 ·
Once while in Kroger I heard a snickering page for the "owner of a black and green Jeep" to come to the front. I was in the checkout anyway so I finished my purchase, walked out into torrential rain, climbed in and drove off. Sure I could've put my top up but where's the dignity in that?
 
#9 ·
I've gone to Baton Rouge and back doorless a couple of times...about a 100 mile round trip.

I was also surprised to discover on a couple of occasions just how heavy a downpour you can drive through with the door and/or windows off (top up, of course) and barely get wet. I recall driving home from work one day (a 30 mile commute) with the doors off and driving through some very heavy showers and really only getting a light mist on my left side. I only got wet for a few seconds while I was stopped at a stop sign and the rain was blowing in on me at an angle.
 
#10 ·
380 miles round trip for a camping trip to the springs.

I've also found that at a decent speed, you don't get to wait in a decent rain.

I get more wet after the rain from my tires slinging it off the road at me!
 
#11 ·
980 miles one way to visit brother in Georgia from Missouri (all the way to the Atlantic in Savannah, GA) many many times. Also a short trip to the middle of Texas that was about 600 miles one way. Leave the top on (have a Trektop NX and it converts easily to just a top cover for long sunny highway miles. Wouldn't travel in the summer with doors on if there is any way to help it and like the others, running through even the heaviest downpour and passing or being passed by semis, you don't get wet till you have to stop :)
 
#12 ·
Way back in the day when I was a young buck I would drive my 78 CJ7 with a 304 V8 and side pipes topless and doorless from Naval Station Lemoore in central Cali to home in Colorado and back. About a 15 hour drive each way in the old beast. It was fun then but no F'ing way would I want to do that now...
 
#13 ·
Today I was remembering a jeep moment in June on the way out to Joshua tree. I could feel it getting windy and when we turned off the freeway. Half doors, all windows out, the wind t-bone blasted us with sand for over a mile, whipping through the headlights, shoving us all over the road, covering my face and body so I could only see out of one eye. Seems lIke good times now. Much less so then.
 
#15 ·
These are my favorite threads to read!
44 miles one way to Cabela's then 44 back. Took it slow on the highway because the wind noise started to get to me, especially from passing semi trucks
 
#16 ·
Went doorless/topless about 60 miles. Was all highway, so it sucked, couldn't hear much. Same in the wife's JKU, but the way the wind comes in, the skin on your arms goes numb. Bought sunshades for both and what a difference they make in keeping wind and wind noise down
 
#20 ·
One summer back in 2000 I drove all summer without doors. Just a bikini top. Rain, shine, whatever. I wore only shorts, tshirts, and sandals that whole summer. My lost summer I guess. At age 50.
The furthest distance at one time was about 150 miles+- a few.

The weird part about no doors to me is that my passengers didnt seem to like it as much as I did. Now I only go doorless when I'm soloing it. Or my passenger want to go door less also.
 
#21 ·
1st day I picked up my second CJ7, bikini top and girl in the next seat. Slight downpour with people looking at us sideways. We just laughed about it. Then had a jeep heading the opposite direction without a bikini top waving and giving thumbs up.

Around 400 miles to Dallas with my nephew one summer, just a bikini top. Hit Six Flags and Virtual World Center for the Battletech Center. Then 2 summers later 450ish miles to see two girls in El Plaso TX. Better dry heat than wet heat!!!

I was asked once what did I do for A/C. I replied back I used the 360...weird look, 2 doors and top off going 60 mph :)
 
#24 ·
Great thread. Bringing back lots of memories, esp. Pink Percy. Long ago, I used to drive my old CJ from March to November without doors or a top. Remember lots of times brushing snow off the seat and just jumping in. Was young and didn't mind a bit. Used to drive Denver to Lincoln (500 miles) pretty regularly without doors or a top. Some great memories just cruising I-76 and I-80. Freedom.

Just ordered the DieTech mirror brackets for my JK. Won't be replicating my youthful exuberance, but really looking forward to taking the doors off - which in LA traffic should be a whole new adventure.
 
#27 ·
My dad always tells me how, back in the day, he drove his 72 orange 304 cj5 with desert rat tires (I think that's the brand) from Cincinnati to Daytona to surprise my mom with only a bikini top. The top was a tarp my mom stitched up to make work on the jeep. Now my dad has a 76 cj5 that's orange with a 258 that I bought him a few years back.
 
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