Date:         Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:59:10 -0700
Reply-To:     Ed <fasteddy64@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Ed <fasteddy64@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Pop top Conversions
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Are we sure this is a Westy top?
Some of the others came with no luggage rack.
Ed


--- On Tue, 7/22/08, Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Pop top Conversions
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 6:13 PM

You'll need a luggage rack, as that's what the rubber seal of the roof
presses against to keep out wind & water.  Should be findable...

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Neil2 <vidublu@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been looking at a pop top at a local yard wondering if it could
be
> installed on me Vanagon ('86).  First prob is the luggage rack
(missing).
> If I didn't find a rack pronto I guess I'd have to jury rig a wind
> deflector
> and search avidly.
>
> Bigger problem?  I'm wondering if a person could simply cut a
rectangle
> with
> rounded corners in btwn the first two roof ribs aft of the cockpit and
> finish it off with some soft rubber molding.  The headliner/interior
> ceiling
> (around the rectangle) could be finished with wood, could it not?
>
> I'm thinking a level sleeping surface could be built by simply adding
a
> couple of 2x4's on edge spanned with a sheet of 1" plywood.
I've already
> harvested the two foam pads from a Westy, so there.
>
> The new top bunk access wouldn't be large but I think my children
would
> love
> it . . . until they're my size.
>
> Seems to me I could have a Westy pop top, installed, for under a grand.
>  No?
>
> --
> Neil2
> '86 Vanagon/Weekender in process (Savannah)
> Nunquam Pendite Divendium
>



--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
Crescent Beach, BC
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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