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Sat Jun 19, 2004 9:42 pm

hey is this pop top rihgt for a 72? i just bought a bus out of the classifieds for parts and this is on it http://thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/161643.jpg i thoght the small pop tops were only for pre-67 bus's?

Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:21 pm

There are a few baywindows out there with the straight popup. Most do not.

Sun Jun 20, 2004 4:44 am

Drummin:

The pop-top pictured is not a Westphalia, in my opinion. Its a tad bit bigger and therefore is maybe a Riveria...Do you know or does anyone know?

There was a company in Canada named Dorper and another I recently saw from Indiana...

interesting.... Tom

PS (I'm gone for one week to a fiddle camp in Tenn.... later.. Tom

Sun Jun 20, 2004 10:46 pm

I'd say it could either be a Riviera poptop or a sportsmobile.
The lifting mechanism looks like to be Riviera style though,
and Riviera tents are usually yellow.

ASI Riviera particularly offered three types of tops for
bay window buses. The one in you photo looks like the type
on the orange bus in this photograph.
http://members.tripod.com/~wetwesties/riviera/riv-p1.jpg

EDIT:
http://wetwesties.tripod.com/riviera/index1.html
First page, Orange bus.

PS. If you are planning on disposing of the bus in a way
that these parts would be trashed I think it would be kind
if you would sell these camper bits as someone could
surely use put a new use to these items.

Alex

Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:03 am

if I was guessing,, I would say a sportsmobile.. you can catch a glimpse of the usual boat style luggage rack in front of the pop top..
also, the canvas resembles sportsmobile.. as do the springs on the outside,,

hmm,, I don't have proof tho

Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:06 am

meester_jamie wrote: if I was guessing,, I would say a sportsmobile.. you can catch a glimpse of the usual boat style luggage rack in front of the pop top..
also, the canvas resembles sportsmobile.. as do the springs on the outside,,

hmm,, I don't have proof tho

psst...this thread was from 6 years ago...

Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:15 pm

skid wrote: meester_jamie wrote: if I was guessing,, I would say a sportsmobile.. you can catch a glimpse of the usual boat style luggage rack in front of the pop top..
also, the canvas resembles sportsmobile.. as do the springs on the outside,,

hmm,, I don't have proof tho

psst...this thread was from 6 years ago...

.......LOL....but they did offer a euro pop top version from 1962 to 1972 a small 16' around pop top:

Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:13 pm

werksberg wrote: skid wrote: meester_jamie wrote: if I was guessing,, I would say a sportsmobile.. you can catch a glimpse of the usual boat style luggage rack in front of the pop top..
also, the canvas resembles sportsmobile.. as do the springs on the outside,,

hmm,, I don't have proof tho

psst...this thread was from 6 years ago...

.......LOL....but they did offer a euro pop top version from 1962 to 1972 a small 16' around pop top:

16'...WOW! they must make buses bigger over there :lol:

Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:27 pm

Mountain Minstrel wrote: werksberg wrote: skid wrote: meester_jamie wrote: if I was guessing,, I would say a sportsmobile.. you can catch a glimpse of the usual boat style luggage rack in front of the pop top..
also, the canvas resembles sportsmobile.. as do the springs on the outside,,

hmm,, I don't have proof tho

psst...this thread was from 6 years ago...

.......LOL....but they did offer a euro pop top version from 1962 to 1972 a small 16' around pop top:

16'...WOW! they must make buses bigger over there :lol:

probably 16 '. it says "around", so i'm guessing they mean circumference, as in 4'X4' or each side is 4' and front/rear is 4' so 4' +4'+4'+4'=16'

Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:23 pm

:-k

I wonder if well be studied in a class some where in the future, like 50 years from now. "ancient web history 101" :lol:

Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:41 pm

notchboy wrote: :-k

I wonder if well be studied in a class some where in the future, like 50 years from now. "ancient web history 101" :lol:

[-X :^o :agrue: ](*,) =;

I think that might be the whole class there...Back in the day you shouldn't have listened to the lies and aguements on internet forums because they just left you banging your head against a wall. You would have been better off ignoring most of it!

Particularly people from Fresno.
miniman82 wrote: Don't listen to him, people from Fresno are retarded. :roll:

Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:15 pm

Mountain Minstrel wrote: notchboy wrote: :-k

I wonder if well be studied in a class some where in the future, like 50 years from now. "ancient web history 101" :lol:

[-X :^o :agrue: ](*,) =;

I think that might be the whole class there...Back in the day you shouldn't have listened to the lies and aguements on internet forums because they just left you banging your head against a wall. You would have been better off ignoring most of it!

Particularly people from Fresno.
miniman82 wrote: Don't listen to him, people from Fresno are retarded. :roll:

I rather like the fact that a key board conected to the inter-web gives the meekest of men HUGE BALLS :roll: