My friend Stephen did this with his '82 westy. He cut the luggage rack and subsequently lost a lot of rigidity from same, so it is practically useless for cargo. But the sunroof overhead is wonderful. He used one of those glass pop-up types that can be completely removed. Its fun to stand on the pass seat and poke out the top of the van as it dives along. Alistair
on 08/05/2002 9:58 AM, Andy Zappe at Zapvw@AOL.COM wrote: > anyone seen the screen saver off vanagon.com, there is a picture of a westy > that has a skylight built into the luggage rack on a westy. looks like it > might be about 2' x 3'. anyone have info. on doing something like that? > sure would be nice! > > andy > 80 vanagon L > 85 westy > |
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