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dhaavers
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| j_dirge wrote: |
My Westy is manual everything.
I don't mind the sldiing door sound...
Not at all... execpt during the sleeping hrs at a campsite. |
Ummm...that's why you walk through to the front pass. door: 'click'......'click' is much preferable at 4:30 am!
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joetiger 
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 10:21 am Post subject: |
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Somebody needs to weld their front doors shut so they can jump in like Bo and Luke.
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thewump
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 9:39 am Post subject: |
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Pretty cool if you ask me
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That's awesome unless you, say, want to be able to get out when the door is open.
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tozovr
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j_dirge
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:11 am Post subject: |
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| crystalcabot wrote: |
| j_dirge wrote: |
Has anyone modified the Vanagon sliding door to run on something similar to what is used in modern Minivans?..
Door "automatically" slides open/closes and latches on a push o' the button?.. nice and quiet like?
Thats a mod I'd like if it were feasible... |
Thats funny you said that about the door. I hadnt heard that noise in about 10 years and it was music to my ears. Same with the door locks. |
My Westy is manual everything.
I don't mind the sldiing door sound...
Not at all... execpt during the sleeping hrs at a campsite.
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those are straight line runs with light weight race cars for only 1/4mile at a time..
not pushing a loaded brick up a mountain pass with a family of 4+ inside expecting to have an event free vacation..
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Cold Steel
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| j_dirge wrote: |
Has anyone modified the Vanagon sliding door to run on something similar to what is used in modern Minivans?..
Door "automatically" slides open/closes and latches on a push o' the button?.. nice and quiet like?
Thats a mod I'd like if it were feasible... |
Thats funny you said that about the door. I hadnt heard that noise in about 10 years and it was music to my ears. Same with the door locks. |
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j_dirge
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:59 am Post subject: |
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Has anyone modified the Vanagon sliding door to run on something similar to what is used in modern Minivans?..
Door "automatically" slides open/closes and latches on a push o' the button?.. nice and quiet like?
Thats a mod I'd like if it were feasible...
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"Jimi Hendrix owned one. Richard Nixon did not"
-Grand Tour, Season 1, episodes 4 and 5
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those are straight line runs with light weight race cars for only 1/4mile at a time..
not pushing a loaded brick up a mountain pass with a family of 4+ inside expecting to have an event free vacation..
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tencentlife
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Yeah, that lambo thing is PS. That site had a buttload of cars with that door concept, most of them looked shopped. Plus you'd slam your knee of the thing every time you climb in.
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A door that can be used as an awning. Nice idea. But imagine in a parking lot at 90 degrees.... it takes lot of room.
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Yeah, that's why I want the barn door option on the gullwing frame. You could open the back (suicide) door to get right into the back seat, or open the front one when the bed is folded down to get in and out easily. |
Why not make the frame run on the slider, and the insert flip up?
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McVanagon
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:27 am Post subject: Re: Lambo Doors, air bags and F-in grooven vanagons |
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| I'm calling photoshop on that one. |
...busted.
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tozovr
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:23 am Post subject: Re: Lambo Doors, air bags and F-in grooven vanagons |
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| I bet no one has put lambo doors on a vanagon. |
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I'm calling photoshop on that one. I could be wrong but.....
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wbx
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:13 am Post subject: |
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So, uh.... how do you get in?
I can just imagine someone doing all that work, opening it up for the first time and.... DOH!
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Vanagonner
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| Crughy wrote: |
A door that can be used as an awning. Nice idea. But imagine in a parking lot at 90 degrees.... it takes lot of room.
JP |
Yeah, that's why I want the barn door option on the gullwing frame. You could open the back (suicide) door to get right into the back seat, or open the front one when the bed is folded down to get in and out easily.
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McVanagon
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:40 am Post subject: Re: Lambo Doors, air bags and F-in grooven vanagons |
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| crystalcabot wrote: |
| I bet no one has put lambo doors on a vanagon. |
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Crughy
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:33 am Post subject: |
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A door that can be used as an awning. Nice idea. But imagine in a parking lot at 90 degrees.... it takes lot of room.
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Vanagonner
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I like the gullwing side door idea too, but how about making it with a peripheral frame for the gull wing assembly, and make a pair of barn doors to mount to the frame, so that it can either open like barn doors or swing up as awning...
I bet that hasn't been done yet.
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blakeck2
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Pretty cool if you ask me
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ThorAlex
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Air ride tristar:
mid engine twin turbo v8 1100hp at the rear wheels:
http://foto.vg.no/show_image_stream.php?bid=89010152&dx=580&dy=435
Then there is a lowrider one too:
Link
Can't find the lambo door and lifting side door right now, but it's a start.
Oh and in case anyone wondered, semi has been done too:
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syncrodoka
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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Why go through all the trouble? Mess up a van the easy way-
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wbx
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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Airbags have been done, slider swinging upwards has been done, lambo doors been done and mid engine been done too. You jus can't coma up with anything new can you  |
Thor,
If you are going to give crystalcabot a hard time, you need to post some pictures to prove it, man! 
The slider awning idea is actually pretty damn cool, IMO.
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