Date:         Tue, 14 Feb 1995 11:37:15 -0500
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         michael.heron@utoronto.ca (Michael Heron)
Subject:      Re: Sportsmobiles, Westy Tent Page, & Fords.

>Christopher Bridge quoth:
>>
>> >now, do any of you happen to know where this company called Sportsmobile
>> >actually is?
>>
>> I don't know, but I think I have one of these on my 71 bus.  I mentioned
>> that mine pops straight up and nobody had heard of it.  Anyone have any
>> pic's or something like that?  I really want to get mine on the road to get
>> to a get-together, maybe someone can ID this.
>>
>I've seen two of these designs at shows (BTW thanx for posting the article,
>Martha!).  One was a canvas affair with two long narrow cots; another was
>a sort of accordionized plastic.  I'll try to get 'em scanned in & put up.
>
>This gives us:
>Westfalia
>Dormobile
>Sportsmobile


This are kind of a grey areas but here goes:

Sundial Campers did coversions on old split window busses, don't know if
they offered a pop top though.

Have seen photocopies of a company manufacturing the Douglas Super Top and
Chimo HighTops (those giant fibreglass things that bolt on to the top of
the bus basically doubles the height of the van)

michael
>anyone know of other poptop vendors and their respective years?  More
>anal-retentive trivia for the FAQ!
>
>BTW saw a ford van with a poptop yesterday.  Cool.  Didn't catch the mfr
>name, tho.
>
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>
>Joe
>
>jclark@nexus.polaris.net