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xavi_242
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 Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:45 am Post subject: Big Top Tent: one year only? |
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I am wrong if I heard that the big top tent was a 'one year only' item?
I took a look at the main threads about this and at some pics from the gallery and noticed people says 1966, 1967...
one year only? which one?
two years only? which ones?
65-76?
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crofty
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65-67 SO42, 45 or 44.
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xavi_242
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:04 am Post subject: |
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| crofty wrote: |
| 65-67 SO42, 45 or 44. |
thanks
manufacturer? westfalia?
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Clara 
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, most 65-67 came with the big top (or the mounting for it),
but a few 65-67s came with the peaked tent (or the mountings for it)
I have only seen this option on the euro sold but US spec SO-42s.
Susan's bus 'Zapper':
The splitty 'big top' has the frame inside the canvas (endoskeleton)
while the Bay 'big top' has the frame outside the canvas (exoskeleton).
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xavi_242
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:02 am Post subject: |
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Susan's bus 'Zapper':
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One of my fauvorite buses...
:p
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1vw maniac
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I have a long strip that was on the roof of a non-westy camper that was for a tent.What do you call it and how did it work? I'll be bringing it and some other stuff to bulli to sell.
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xavi_242
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| 1vw maniac wrote: |
| I have a long strip that was on the roof of a non-westy camper that was for a tent.What do you call it and how did it work? I'll be bringing it and some other stuff to bulli to sell. |
tent rail?
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Barnabus
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:23 am Post subject: |
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Do the Euro SO-42s have regular pop-outs??
That bus is missing the Jalousies?
But very, very, very cool.
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Clara
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:27 am Post subject: |
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Do the Euro SO-42s have regular pop-outs??
That bus is missing the Jalousies?
But very, very, very cool. |
Yes, they have two pop-outs, no jalousies. See: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=220422
Susan's bus is awesome. She likes it too, she's had it over 25 years 
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Clara
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:37 am Post subject: |
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Endoskeleton:
Exoskeleton:
I do not know for sure that the tent was changed exactly at the split/bay changeover.
However, the splitty brouchures show the endoskeleton, the bay brouchures show the exoskeleton.
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