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Date:         Mon, 11 May 1998 12:58:56 -0700
Reply-To:     David Bayer <bayer@SYBASE.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         David Bayer <bayer@SYBASE.COM>
Subject:      Re: the next wave: westy-to-syncro body swaps
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com

>| The body of a westy is different to accomodate the huge hole in the roof. >| Besides which, swapping a drive train is a lot less work than swapping an >| interior. It'd probably take a day or two to get a syncro drivetrain out, >| whereas it could take a long time to transfer the interior from one van to >| another.

Actually, if I rememeber correctly, the body is the same. The hole is cut between the post behind the front seats to the post over the rear bench seat. The crossbeam in the middle of the passenger compartment is not connected to a post which one can see if one stands in the sliding door. Westfelia <sp?> got the same bodies and just put different stuff in them and cut various parts out. There is a discussion in the archives by someone who did this I believe... I had found it when I was trying to see how much work is involved in making a passenger van into a pop top westy...

dave


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