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Desert Tan Canvas/Vinyl Top/Doors

Unread post by Mutt Hunter » March 27th, 2019, 7:07 pm

Hi folks, hope you're all well.

I'm wondering if any of you know the NSN/federal stock number for desert tan tops/doors. I've seen the door parts out there, but never an entire set and never a top, but having seen them in real life years ago, i know they exist.

Anybody have a master part listing that shows the correct stock number for these tan parts?

Thanks in advance.
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Unread post by Surveyor » March 27th, 2019, 10:36 pm

Don't know the numbers but the tan vinyl used to come up from time to time on Ebay. There was a gentleman that had them around College Station Tx. for sale but I have not seen them offered for awhile now. This mutt was for sale last year that sported the tan...


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Unread post by m3a1 » March 28th, 2019, 6:03 am

Surveyor wrote:Don't know the numbers but the tan vinyl used to come up from time to time on Ebay. There was a gentleman that had them around College Station Tx. for sale but I have not seen them offered for awhile now. This mutt was for sale last year that sported the tan...


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Brent Mullins Jeep Parts, maybe?

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Unread post by Mutt Hunter » March 28th, 2019, 12:31 pm

Thanks so much for the lead! Most of my Army time was in the desert, so i'm headed that way with my restoration. Appreciate any/all info you folks can provide. And i'll thank you in advance for that support. Rick has already been great, and gave me a TON of help with my pre-purchase evaluation.

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Unread post by rickf » March 28th, 2019, 5:10 pm

Mutt Hunter, You may wantto look at the post above aboutthe demill and all that crap. That may have a bearing on how much later stuff you are going to find. From what I see in that report they were so pissed about people constantly rebuilding these that they pretty much decided to trash anything that had to do with them at some point and that report was in 1990. Just before the sandboxes.
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Unread post by Mark » March 28th, 2019, 6:53 pm

I bought a tan top long time ago, I'll look to see if the NSN is on it, I can remember that number being on some canvas tops I had long time ago(M38A1/M151)
But probably it won't be there as that was old day stuff
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Unread post by Hambone » March 28th, 2019, 8:05 pm

I was thinking about going tan a couple years ago, Brent Mullins had the last tan tops I've seen for sale, Red River has the side curtains and doors.

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Unread post by agwrangler » April 5th, 2019, 3:05 pm

Brent no longer has any Tan tops, he does still have door and curtains. Red River no longer has any tan stuff at all.
Just throwing that out to help ave time on your search!

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Unread post by Mutt Hunter » April 5th, 2019, 9:47 pm

Thanks a bunch. I appreciate you looking into it. I have found one source for tan top out of MN, but it will be expensive. They are sending me "fabric" samples in next couple days. I'll let you folks know how it goes once i get them.
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Unread post by salt6 » April 6th, 2019, 1:37 pm

You can always get the tan paint out.
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