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Date:         Thu, 21 Dec 1995 15:21:09 -0500 (EST)
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From:         William Alan Killian <killian@qnet.com>
Subject:      Re: POPTOP QUESTION, 

On Thu, 21 Dec 1995 SAMAR1968@aol.com wrote:

> First year with the van, being up here in the northeast with all the ice and > snow. I have the following question: > > I'm very hesitant to open the top on my van during the winter for fear that > ice/snow might get under the top and into the canvas or that the top won't > seal back down to the van correctly due to ice/snow. Does anyone agree or am > I being paranoid?

My EV is a non-poptop non-weekender style so I don't have a pop top on the EV BUT we did have a '72 pop-top. Only problem we had in snow was the rubber getting to stiff to bend abd store properly. The canvas parts were fine. We learned this by the way in the middle of July in a snow storm in Yellowstone Park not in the real winter.

I don't seem to remember us going out of the way to avoid using the pop-top in the winter with one other caveat. As bad as the non-insulation of the metal and fiberglass parts were the canvas was MUCH worse. We might not have had many problems with the canvas because we left the pop-top down because of the heat loss thing.

bill and diane killian zen and the art of ferrets


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