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Date:         Sun, 4 Feb 2007 00:16:46 -0500
Reply-To:     Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject:      Re: Poptop Raise Assists
Comments: To: Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <45c54a5e.6a0a53e6.5deb.fffffd90@mx.google.com>
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Hi Joy,

Thanks. The guys where I used to work used to tell me they thought I was driving the remains of a crashed float-plane. You're right, the pop-top can't be raised with the boats on top. But I CAN load both boats onto the bus by myself with that rack, which is not something I could do if it were a hightop. And my 17' coleman canoe will NOT fit inside a bus, hightop or otherwise, unless you fold it up or melt it down, which ain't gonna happen.

There was a splitwindow factory hightop at Everybus last year with a canoe on top; I can only imagine what that would have been like in a crosswind. And can you imagine the horror if it had car tires? I just drove 110KM tonight with a full load of 8 adults in the vanagon to attend a local VW group dinner, and the winds tonight were bad enough in a passenger van!!

http://www.pottsfamily.ca/VW_type2/EB2005/pictures/dscn4005.jpg

Happy Trails,

Greg Potts 1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato www.pottsfamily.ca

On 3-Feb-07, at 9:52 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:

> That's a great picture, Greg! Way cool, it definitely belongs in the > vanagon calendar or something. But it looks like you can't pop the > top with > those boats up there. > > I met someone a long time ago who was in a hightop and had a > canoe. He had > it attached on the side of the high part. With two boats one could > go on > each side. > > I had my kayak on top, but I couldn't raise the top by myself > because it was > too heavy for me. Struts are the answer for me - Kim and I have > talked > about his arrangement, and it has potential. He doesn't know it > yet, but > sometime before Labrador I just might have to ask him to help me > install > them, unless he convinced me that it's really easily and doesn't > involve > drilling more holes in my poptop. (There are already holes for the > yak-rack.) > > Oops, I guess now he knows it! :-) > > > > Joy > > > :::-----Original Message----- > :::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On > Behalf > :::Of Greg Potts > :::Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 5:17 PM > :::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > :::Subject: Re: Poptop Raise Assists > ::: > :::Hi Malcolm, > ::: > :::And then where do I put my canoe or kayaks? > ::: > :::http://www.pottsfamily.ca/The_Bug_Pack/WarsawCaves2002/AGF00002- > tb.html > > http://www.pottsfamily.ca/The_Bug_Pack/WarsawCaves2002/AGF00002- > tb.html > > ::: > :::Happy Trails, > ::: > :::Greg Potts > :::1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato > :::www.pottsfamily.ca > ::: > ::: > ::: > :::On 3-Feb-07, at 4:27 PM, Malcolm Stebbins wrote: > ::: > :::> The definitive answer to a "hard to raise pop-top" is to get a > high- > :::> top. Done! m


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