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Kherome
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 Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject: Bimini, bikini, surry etc top |
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LEJ
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Forget the top's, I prefer them to be topless LOL
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Kherome
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: men |
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n0limdon
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| The THING shop sells a "Bikini" top, someone may correct me if I'am wrong but I believe the Surrey top is a Acapulco type top, a little different than the Bikini. Never heard of the other one mentioned. |
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Kherome
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:58 pm Post subject: top |
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| As far as I know Bimini is the correct term, but I just am not 100% on that. |
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LEJ
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I looked at a VW accessory ad for an Acapulco and it's called a Surrey Top. I'll keep looking through other accessory ad's and if I find anything, I'll post the information
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Captain Spalding
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| I looked at a VW accessory ad for an Acapulco and it's called a Surrey Top. I'll keep looking through other accessory ad's and if I find anything, I'll post the information |
In terms of common usage that I have come across, a Surrey top generally covers front and rear seats and the cargo space if there is one. It can come with or without its own frame. A bikini top usually refers to a much simpler setup consisting of a piece of material stretched from the windshield over a roll bar member, and then tensioned with straps or whatever. It can cover all the seats, or just the front. |
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FreakCitySF
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im guessing bimini
is like a mini bikinni top |
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LEJ
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I went back and checked all of the accessory ad's published by VW for the "regular" Thing and the Acapulco Thing and each refers to the top as a Surrey top.
Maybe over the years, it became known as a bikini or bimini but the ad's called it a Surrey top
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mattt
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| The THING shop sells a "Bikini" top, someone may correct me if I'am wrong but I believe the Surrey top is a Acapulco type top, a little different than the Bikini. Never heard of the other one mentioned. |
What he said.... 
Bikini & Bimini are interchangeable terms for the same style top.
Surrey is what the Acapulco came with. |
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bljones
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bimini tops are for boats.
bikini tops are aftermarket.
surrey top was the vw name for the acapulco top.
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chinarider
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| I guess it all depends on whether you're driving your Thing in the Bahamas, the Marshall Islands, or the UK. |
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wings_n_fins
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Hah! There's always time for geography jokes!
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Woreign
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| Yeah, and if you're driving anywhere in the southern states it might be called a "Tube Top"! Just be sure to sure to take the cigarette out of your mouth before you tell off the highway patrolman... |
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Captain Spalding
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| Yeah, and if you're driving anywhere in the southern states it might be called a "Tube Top"! Just be sure to sure to take the cigarette out of your mouth before you tell off the highway patrolman... |
This thread is turning into a bad episode of "Cops".  |
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bucko
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Somtimes we sit and think; sometimes we just think.....
I think we should have a beer. |
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Ferretkona
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Somtimes we sit and think; sometimes we just think.....
I think we should have a beer. |
I have a fresh keg in the kegerator, ya all come on over. |
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