Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:27:08 -0500
Reply-To:     Robert Rountree <rountree@PLANETEER.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Rountree <rountree@PLANETEER.COM>
Subject:      Re: Side Vent window retrofit?
Comments: To: Michael Sullivan <sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM>, vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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  >>The change in vent windows seems to have happened somewhere between 87 and
  >>90. Our 87 has the good kind of vent windows, and our 90 doesn't.
  
  >Our '87 has the "bad kind" of vent (i.e. doesn't rotate 180 degrees)
  Michael J. Sullivan
  '87 GL Syncro Westfalia
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  My 87 Westfalia VanagonGL Syncro..... Dog Legs (side vent windows) turn out & forward maybe 145 degrees... enough to scoop up those BIG bugs, like wasps and dump then in your lap.... because the GL has the larger heated mirrors... the side vent windows, if pushed all the way forward, tend to slip back until they fall into the wind shadow of the mirrors and the mirrors act as leading edges, scooping an even larger area.... and yes more Bugs....But Personally I can't stand the noise level.... drowns out the stereo... but if I lived in S.A. or Texas and didn't have A/C... I'd make some sort of stick to hold them forward...First time I drove thru Death Valley.... it was 120f... the wind burned your arm if  held out the window..... we had jugs full of water in the back of my Ghia...  just in our shorts and pouring water on ourselves....when we got to the other side, we had emptied all the jugs and the car seats were dry.....(you bet the cooler was emptied ;^)
  Rob
  87 Westy SyncroGL.....Cynosure (slip&drip)
  rountree@planeteer.com

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