I am starting on the JLU Jeep now. I bought a new Willys EV for this event.

My tops were always junk, like a 13 year old built them (no offense to 13 year olds). But I always had less than $5 and was alway starving like a homeless person since I left home after high school. So as a teenager I made tops for CJ Jeeps, right there on the sidewalk cutting tops out on my knees, using the shower curtain from my apartment, sitting on Jeep bumpers waiting to show the owner my wares. I think I was born to make tops. It kept me in money. Plus, I was always talking about making tops as a kid in high school, then a kid in college and now I am living it. I was so in awe at Bestop's tops, marvelled over them. One particular top was insanely smart. The Fastback in 1980s. It was a true blue head turner and that is where I first used that phrase. It was on the corner of 16 ave in Calgary where I saw it, in 1985. There it was, what a rush. The stretch went diagonally. I still have it in a box. Now I think I know why it thrilled so much, it was the height of the roof and the wild wild window shapes and the curves, WAIT, DON'T GET ME STARTED. What a sexy top that was, sheeeesh god level. Anyway, Jeep tops financed my University education, and everything in my life up until today. I studied right there on the counter in my own store as a University student, as I helped customers and built Jeep CJ/YJ tops.

Thus, before I started making the Bronco top, I created a bending tool to bend the sheet metal into a double tongue and groove rail and another bender to curve it sharply into a BOW. I WANTED HEIGHT like my favorite Bestop Fastback of the 80s. So that is why you see a sexy Bronco roof on my tops. Now it is time to create tooling for my NEW JEEP JLU and start with a high roof to blow minds, create a rush, a HEAD TURNER TOP!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you. Tim