Date:         Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:40:15 -0500
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         SyncroHead@aol.com
Subject:      Re: Car Top Tent, slim VW content

In a message dated 96-02-20 18:52:29 EST, I wrote:

>
>Vanatics,
>
>I saw a new camping product recently that looks intriguing.  It's called the
>Car Top Tent, and I read an article about it in "Four Wheel Drive & Sport
>Utility" magazine.  It is basically a folding tent that fastens to roof
racks
>on the top of a car (or Vanagon!).  It consists of a pair of platforms that
>are hinged together and a tent in between.  Then traveling (or in storage)
>the platforms are folded together and the tent is collapsed between them.
 It
>measures 48" x 60" x estimated 10" thick in this state.  When you want to
set
>up for the nite and use the tent, you remove the travel cover and swing the
>top platform up and over with its attached ladder.  The ladder extends down
>to meet the ground and hold up the platform ..............

I ordered one of these tents.  I'll give the list a report when it arrives.

Jim Davis
87 GL Syncro
88 GL Wolfsburg