Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:21:02 -0500
Reply-To: Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Glass Sun Roof
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American Sunroof Corporation offered at one point custom made (but if
I recall "affordable"/every man's sunroofs)
http://www.ascglobal.com/
http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/a/asc/asc.htm
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> I've seen it twice.
> one was on a plane white diesel vanagon I owned once, that had been
> installed by a Sunroof Company in Seattle.
> ( there was a label from them on the driver's door - that company may not
> exist any more- I estimate the work was done in the 80's - but search
> around )
>
> the other one was kinda interesting -
> on a Syncro Westy.
> They cut out most of the bottom of the front roof rack, but left the sides
> on - so it looked normal from outside the van.
> And there was a clear sunroof/moonroof over the front two seats .
>
> A nice thing I like to do on Westy roofs ...
> when either the skylight is gone/broken/blown out ..or there isn't a
> skylight at all, is......
> I get bronze-gold Plexiglas, and I install that flat onto the Westy roof.
> Not very high tech, but not expensive either.
> I just seal it to the top of the roof . The particular Plexiglas I get is
> called 'edge glow' ..and from the side, the Plexiglas on the edge looks like
> a neon light - really captures light .
>
> and ...I use the bronze-gold tint because that's a fine compromise - clear
> would be horribly glary at times, translucent would let in lots o light, but
> you can't see the moon outside at night or whatever ..
> and with no moving parts ...there's nothing that can leak or break.
> and you can still haul stuff on top of it too .....though dealing with a
> westy flat roof is far less complicated than dealing with a rounded metal
> roof and headliner over the front seats - but it has been done.
>
> a few hundred dollars at least, by a professional sunroof company, I
> suspect.
>
> Scott
> turbovans
>
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Drier." <Vanvw1@AOL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 12:12 PM
> Subject: Glass Sun Roof
>
>
>> Has anybody seen or installed a glass sliding sun/moon roof on a vanagon?
>> It would be over the driver and front passenger seats on a 91 carat.
>>
>> Appreciate any input.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Steve
>
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Karl
1981 VW Westy "Jenny"
2000 VW Jetta GLS VR6
Wilmington, DE
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