Date:         Sun, 23 Jan 2000 11:49:35 EST
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From:         Benjamin Tan <BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: westy interior?
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Hi Chad,

>> I'm selling my 85 GL But have been contemplating doing a Westy conversion
and keeping it.  Does anybody no of a smashed Westy or someone selling Westy
interior in the Colorado area..my interior is blue. I have found a tan z bed
but I want to wait for whole set up, even a poptop, I saw the web site and
it can done.  Has anybody refabed their interior? That might be the only
way to get this idea rolling?  One more question..after the poptop is up
what does the bed up there look like.  I have an extra fold out cot from my
72, I know it will fit but what othe options do I have?<<

I'm in middle of removing a poptop from an 82 for a friend. I have also read
Karl & Kristina's poptop project. Swapping the top seems more involved than
it looks. I don't know how the post-82 poptop looks like but this one on the
82 is sitting on a frame work w/o any sheet metal at all. The entire roof is
open under the poptop. The rear section has a piece of plywood bolted to the
frame work of the roof to provide a platform for the bed.

It would be a waste to install your cot up there. The bed on these things is
almost the size of a real bed. It's a plywood piece w/ foam pads almost 5'
wide which folds over onto itself toward the rear of the vehicle. It's
actually a pretty cool set-up.

My main point is that to make it work right, it seems to me that you have to
remove the entire roof, cut the whole reinforced side sections from the
Westy, then pop-rivet or weld onto your roof. Anything else is a half-a-- job
IMHO.

Karl? Chris?

BenT
San Francisco