Date:         Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:11:53 MST
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Mike White" <MIKE.WHITE@law.utah.edu>
Subject:      Re: New '56 Sunroof Cover

>     Put a new sunroof cover on the bus yesterday.  A lot easier than
> it was the first 2 times...
> 
>     I'm too tired to go into all the details right now, but if someone
> wants the procedure, I'd be happy to detail it.
> 
>     The only bummer was one of the nylon riders for the head bow
> broke, which lets the front bow come off the rail.  I'm not even gonna
> try and find a new part, gonna buy a chunk of plastic and fab a new one...

Thom,

Your post did not go by unnoticed.  I am about to purchase a canvas 
cover for the '57 and would love some pointers on how to do it.  My 
current vinyl cover is coming to pieces.

In fact the whole mechanism eludes me.  I see pictures of these buses 
with the top all tidily folded perfectly at the very end of the roof. 
My top just seems to bunch up and go about 8" up into the air, apart 
from the fact that you can't get the last foot or so open.

Anywho...

 




- Mike White 

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