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CALIFORNIA CHOP; Topless utes arrive just in time for summer.(News)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
Newport Convertible Engineering in Placentia, California, has been chopping the tops off perfectly good cars since 1983. Now, as summer looms in the Northern Hemisphere, they've taken to chopping the tops off sport/utility vehicles, too, including the Toyota FJ Cruiser and the Hummer H3.
The premise of a convertible SUV should raise hundreds of red flags for anyone who has ever heard the phrase "torsional rigidity.'' We've seen homemade cabriolets where the windshields cracked after three blocks of driving because what is left of the frame twists like a pair of plastic salad tongs. But Newport does a solid engineering job on every project, and the SUVs are no exception. With welded-in reinforcement around the window frames and behind the back seats, as well as roll hoops welded into all the right places, both FJ and H3 are stiff enough that you won't have to worry about anything breaking on them.
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