Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:10:24 -0500
Reply-To: Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: anybody used Kelly Carport? (awning)
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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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