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Gladiator not designed for half doors?

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i gotta go find photos of jk half doors with the tops of the doors on with colored hard tops, wonder if there are any.

Me thinks this will look silly, so now i need to decide if i want a black hard top if I'm going to have half doors eventually. OR, if i'm only going to rock the half doors with the soft top.
Doesn't the JL have 1/2 door options, or at least thru MOPAR ? If they do, then it seems logical they would be a perfect fit on the Glad. ! SAME doors ! All you (we) need is for Bestop to get on board to make the windows . . . Bestop, you Up To The Task ? :like:
 

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I found some! Nice comparison. I think the hardtop pic looks not bueno.

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Lol posted that same jeep. Just remember it would be a lot less hard top but take a look at the ones I posted.
 

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Lots of people do it. Lol


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the middle 2 don't count, those are black tops. I'm looking for body colored hard tops with the full half doors on. you got 2 of them. I looked for like 30 minutes on google, could only find the bottom one you posted.

I'm thinking that looks not cool. So now i got some thinkinering to do.
 

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Doesn't the JL have 1/2 door options, or at least thru MOPAR ? If they do, then it seems logical they would be a perfect fit on the Glad. ! SAME doors ! All you (we) need is for Bestop to get on board to make the windows . . . Bestop, you Up To The Task ? :like:
i think Jeep has said the JL 1/2 doors are coming. And yes when they come, should work with JT no problem. =)
 

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i prefer the black hard top on the JLUR, but prefer the body colored hardtop on the JT with normal JT doors, but i prefer the Black soft top or black hard top with the half doors.

Guess i need to get the tri-top option with the dual door option. Man this is going to be pricey.

Then what if they come out with a tan top? i'll need one of those too, and a tan tonneau cover, so now i need a dual tonneau cover group, and dual half door upper group.

Maybe i can just have a different JT for every day of the week.
 

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Well those pics certainly answer "why don't you ever see half doors with a hardtop?"
Half doors with a body colored hard top, yuck.
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half doors with a black hard top looks good still; however, i can only find a few photos, so apparently not common. Also could only find this dark gray body color.
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Definately don't like the black half doors with a different body color.

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The black top looks better but they both look pretty bad to me lol

I honestly don't think I've ever seen that in person
is it the non matching black color of the half door upper with the black top that bugs you?

Bugs me too. Maybe i'll do what others have mentioned and do half doors with the soft top in summer, then completely change things for winter with a colored hardtop and the full doors............

Seriously, i need like 7 JTs now.
 

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is it the non matching black color of the half door upper with the black top that bugs you?
Yeah that and just the different materials look weird together imo. But I think it would look just as weird with half doors with no uppers and a hard top. However, half doors with no uppers and a soft top look fine to me so go figure.
 

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This is an in person decision. Fugly!
 

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