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Old 08-27-2008, 08:44 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I just returned from a trip to Italy. When there, I saw a Nissan Navara pickup truck with a hard bed cap on it that looked unbelievable to the one that bondo made for the F150. It looked like this.




In all, I saw 3 of the pickups and all had the bed cap on it. There is a cap like the one shown that is available through Nissan that cost € 2.614,80!!!!! But there are other makers of the hard caps like the one above that look the same. Do a google images search on Nissan Navara Hard Top and you will see all the suppliers of the cap.

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Old 08-27-2008, 04:05 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Oh, torr, I wish you hadn't posted that. I have a Frontier that REALLY needs that cap now! I was going to build one over the winter, but have decided to do an electric car instead, and having a pre-fab cap would have been great.

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Old 08-27-2008, 09:22 PM   #3 (permalink)
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wow, that thing flows with the truck like crazy!!!! mite be a factory option?
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wow, that thing flows with the truck like crazy!!!! mite be a factory option?
If I would get off my butt, and take some pics of my setup, you would think mine is a factory piece...
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Had to copy this over to a new thread - it's worth it so others who may not be following bondo's thread will see this. That's a slick looking cap.

badbird: yes, please get some pics and post in a new thread as well.
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Had to copy this over to a new thread - it's worth it so others who may not be following bondo's thread will see this. That's a slick looking cap.

badbird: yes, please get some pics and post in a new thread as well.
I'll try and get em tonight or tommorrow.
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Did you guys get anywhere with this Navara hard cap? I'm thinking about getting a Frontier, and the cap looks pretty slick.
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Couple thousand euros and another thousand in shipping to get it here...wasn't worth doing in the end IMHO.

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