Modular roof assemblies for vehicles
A modular roof assembly includes a pair of side rails configured for attachment to longitudinal roll bar members of a vehicle frame by at least one fastener. The side rails extend a direction along a length of the vehicle frame and include at least one guideway to slidably receive transverse tensioning bows and a track car for a soft top and include at least one attachment member adapted to latchably receive at least one hard top panel.
1. A modular roof assembly, comprising:
a pair of side rails configured for attachment to a pair of longitudinal roll bar members of a vehicle frame by at least one fastener, the side rails extending from a wind screen frame in a rearward direction along an entire length of the vehicle roof;
the side rails having at least one inboard guideway to slidably receive transverse tensioning bows and a track car for a soft top; and
the side rails further adapted to receive at least one hard top panel.
2. The modular roof assembly of claim 1 , wherein the rear assembly comprises a cassette adapted to be sealingly coupled to rearward ends of the side rails and including a motive force to drive the track car and tensioning bows along a predetermined travel path within the at least one guideway.
3. The modular roof assembly of claim 2 , wherein the soft top is attached to the tensioning bows providing a weather tight seal for the vehicle roof when the tensioning bows are in an extended position.
4. The modular roof assembly of claim 2 , wherein the rear assembly is operable to lower a retracted soft top and rear cassette to a sill of the vehicle frame, whereby the roof is retracted to the sill of the vehicle frame.
5. The modular roof assembly of claim 2 , wherein the rear cassette comprises a soft top rear panel having a backlite.
6. The modular roof assembly of claim 2 , wherein the rear cassette comprises a soft top rear panel having a backlite providing a weather tight seal with a sill of the vehicle frame.
7. A modular roof assembly, comprising:
a pair of side rails configured for attachment to a pair of longitudinal roll bar members of a vehicle frame by at least one fastener, the side rails extending from a wind screen frame in a rearward direction along an entire length of the vehicle roof;
the side rails having at least one inboard guideway to slidably receive transverse tensioning bows and a track car for a soft top; and
the side rails further adapted to receive at least one hard top panel;
wherein a weather tight seal with a sill of the vehicle frame is an upwardly pivoting hatch.
8. The modular roof assembly of claim 1 , further comprising at least one rigid roof panel, releasably attached to at least the side rails.
9. A modular roof assembly, comprising:
a pair of side rails configured for releasable attachment above a pair of longitudinal roll bar members of a vehicle frame by at least one fastener, the side rails extending along at least an entire length of a vehicle roof frame;
the side rails having at least one inboard guideway along its entire length to slidably receive transverse tensioning bows and a track car for a soft top; and
the side rails further adapted to receive at least one hard top panel.