Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 10:26:44 -0600
Reply-To: Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: What kind of sliding window is not a vanagon window but looks
a whole heck of a lot like one?
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On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Nigel Tilli-Pauling <nij.tp.vanaru@gmail.com
> wrote:
> Looks like your going to have build a kit car, so that your investment was
> not wasted. :-)
>
The reason God hasn't made me a billionaire is that he knows that if I had
that kind of money, I would be all over this suggestion.
I'm thinking a full length fairing for a recumbent bicycle, with all
space-age ultra-light materials, like these:
http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/racing2001/NAC2001-pictures.htm
except with this window jiggered in on the "driver's side" for optional
ventilation.
Then actually take it to races and stuff. Maybe hire a professional to
race it for me, who is fast enough to beat the other competitors despite
the extra weight, and then before he crosses the finish line he opens the
window and waves back at the other participants.
mike
PS This thought experiment was definitely enough fun to take the edge off
the disappointment. Thanks, Nigel!
>
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Julianna Elligsen <mumbrue@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Wonder if the van was chopped?
> >
> > Julianna
> > http://about.me/juliannaelligsen
> > 1991 VW Vanagon Westfalia (Ophelia)
> > 1990 VW Vanagon Westfalia (The Rastafalia)
> > 1988 VW Vanagon Tintop (James)
> >
> > > On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:01 PM, Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's a picture to give you an idea of relative size:
> > >
> > > http://imgur.com/cisocY1
> > >
> > > I bought the smaller one through the samba classifieds.
> > >
> > > I'm going on the assumption that the seller also had no idea this
> wasn't
> > > for a vanagon. The drain slots are in the same place. The notches are
> > the
> > > same. It's like a slightly shrunken down version of the vanagon
> driver's
> > > side slider. About 1.5 inches short top to bottom and 1 inch short
> down
> > > the length of the van.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any idea what kind of vehicle this window would fit?
> > > Hoping we can get a moderately happy ending out of this by finding
> > someone
> > > who needs one of these. Whatever it is.
> > >
> > > The vanagon window is about 47x17 inches, and this is about 46x15.5
> > inches.
> > >
> > > Perhaps this is the conservation gods' revenge on me for not looking
> into
> > > just getting the glass replaced in my otherwise functional window.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any idea what that entails?
> > >
> > > mike
> >
>