Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:20:43 -0700
Reply-To:     Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
Subject:      Re: parts are parts?
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com
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As we most likely have a SA listee, why cant he or she please be so kind, just
use a tape measure, and measure the height on the side windows, and then we all
can measure ours.
I agree totally, the windows are different, but so is also the body line on the
doors, just beneath the glass, they swing up behind the window, instead of going
further backwards, and the engine air grilles at the sides (rear) are much
taller, too. Why these changes were made, it is not easy to tell, but of course,
when the windows go further down in the sides, you can see more when parking and
reversing. BTW, the lower air grille (front) extends all the way between the
turn signals, would these fit on regular german made cars? I think it looks
good, it makes the car look wider.

PerL
88 Caravelle Syncro

Michael Harrnacker wrote:

> the windows do look bigger than ours.  the SA website pictures were tough to
> tell...in one picture they looked bigger, in the next they looked the same.
> how did we get on this subject again?
>
> Michael B. Harrnacker
> 89 Weekender "Nameles"
> 91 Golf "Miami"
> http://ruralinstitute.umt.edu/vwbus
> vanagon@rudi.montech.umt.edu
>
> "Never miss a good chance to shut up."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Sullivan <sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM>
> To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
> Date: Monday, October 12, 1998 6:42 AM
> Subject: Re: parts are parts?
>
> >Actually, go to vanagon.com to see the now-classic picture of the SA
> Vanagon (at the bottom of the pix page) -- if you will carefully study the
> picture closely you will notice that the windows are MUCH taller than ours
> (by about 2") and that the body panels are indeed different - there is no
> horizontal "notch" under the windows as in our vans. This makes sense as the
> larger windows necessitated eliminating this body feature. The front doors
> are also different.
> >
> >I cannot explain it any better than that. If you still have trouble
> "seeing" the difference I suggest you print the picture out on your printer
> and then going outside and comparing it to your Vanagon -- you'll see what I
> mean.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >MJS
> >
> >At 05:32 PM 10/11/98 -0600, Michael Harrnacker wrote:
> >>Do you have different/better pictures than the ones on the VW SA site?
> From
> >>the pictures I see, the rear windows ARE different (sliding type, no air
> >>vent at the rear), but the windows APPEAR to fit in the same size/shape
> body
> >>panel opening. The colors on all the pictures are too dark for me to
> >>accurately make out individual body panel lines, but it doesn't look to me
> >>like the body panels have been changed at all.
> >
> >
> >
> >Michael J. Sullivan
> >Director of Catalog Design
> >Open Market, Inc.
> >
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> >