(fellow) old -

The little bit of poking around that I did, some of which didn't get posted, indicates that the manufacturers of pop tops generally won't sell anything to a "private user," probably because of the liability involved in letting you cut holes in your van.

The only "conventional" way to get a pop top is to go to a shop that does "conversion vehicles." They seem to be able to get the parts and pieces from manufacturers who simply won't talk to "us real people."

I was not able to locate a conversion shop willing to talk about working on a "used" vehicle, and most of them expect you to deal with them only through an automobile/truck dealer. You order a new van, the dealer has it delivered to the conversion shop and returned to him, then you pick it up from the auto dealer.

If there's an "aftermarket" pop top you can get to put on a vehicle you already own, I didn't find it. The closest I got was a couple of "truck toy" shops that had a few styles of openable "sunroofs" (windows) you could get put in as an add-on. That would at least give you one place where you could stand up (with your head sticking out) to pull your britches up, but even this would require some "modification" since these kinds of windows are usually only intended to open a couple of inches. You'd have to pull the pin in the latch, and put a removable clevis pin in, or something similar, to get the window to open far enough to be helpful.

John