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Date:         Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:10:24 -0500
Reply-To:     Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: anybody used Kelly Carport? (awning)
In-Reply-To:  <200708021043258.SM03268@evilzed>
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True not very elegant. It's an evolution I suppose - I just want functional right now.

On 8/2/07, Ryan Miller <rmiller@azteca.com> wrote: > > Yeah, that's kinda what I'm using right now, but it's not a very "elegant" > solution. Not that most of my Vanagon solutions have been very elegant ;) > > Ryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of > Jeff Lincoln > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:24 AM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: anybody used Kelly Carport? (awning) > > Ryan, > > Just buy some spring clamps to secure it to the rain cutter - I don't have > mine put together yet but that's what I am going to do. Got 6 of them for > .99 each at an army surplus store. > > > On 8/2/07, Ryan Miller <rmiller@azteca.com> wrote: > > > > Very snazzy. I wonder how one would attach it to the rain gutters? I > have > > an > > old cotton canvas orange awning and poles that used to have a rubber > strip > > down one end that was molded to grip the rain gutter. This awning came > > over > > form Europe and was used on our '74 VW westfalia there. My folks sold > the > > van when we moved back to the states, but kept the awning. > Unfortunately, > > some time ago my father cut the rubber strip so it could attach more > > easily > > to something else. When I got my van I took the awning, but have yet to > > find > > a replacement rubber strip or some other method of securely fastening it > > to > > the gutters. > > > > Ryan > > '82 camper van 'Beethoven' > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf > Of > > Wesley Alden Pegden > > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:54 PM > > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > Subject: anybody used Kelly Carport? (awning) > > > > Has anybody used one of these? > > http://www.rei.com/product/732929 > > > > It looks like it's made to work with a roof rack, but from the photos it > > would probably be easy to fabricate gutter brackets to use with it. > > > > What I really like about it is that it has the sides that roll down. > > > > > > Anybody ever tried something like this? > > > > -Wes > > '83 1.9l westy > > '84 1.9l gl > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > > Jeff > 90' Carat (It's Blue, It's Beautiful. Now sporting a very unstylish brown > interior taken from the parts bus) > 86' (We call this one Parts) > 85' GL (Sidelined and feeling neglected) >

-- Thanks,

Jeff 90' Carat (It's Blue, It's Beautiful. Now sporting a very unstylish brown interior taken from the parts bus) 86' (We call this one Parts) 85' GL (Sidelined and feeling neglected)


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