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reesd
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 Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: finding and adding a westy camper roof |
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Quick question (hopefully), in general how hard is it to find a used vanagon camper roof and how much work is it to put it on a non-camper?]
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Christopher Schimke
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Location: PNW
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Here is one persons account of the roof conversion:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jetstar5224/sets/
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pdunn13445
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Location: Zacatecas, MX/TX/CO/MD
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| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject: Where there can be good tops |
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| Painter's Grinding in Denver often has good bodies, including tops. Phone is (303)722-5537. GoWesty will also email you a list of salvage yards they use and recommend for Vanagon parts. |
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camo westy
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Location: Madison, Va
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Be advised, a standard van is not made the same as a westy/sunroof van.
You can stick on the top, but those German engineers designed the structure of the Westies totally different. |
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Captain Pike
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Check my gallery
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Dogpilot
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The reputed best way is to use a roof clip with the top. This way you get the structure and the top in one go. You just need to be good at welding. There is a guy selling a couple of roof clips right now in the classified. You just have to dig through the hundreds of repeated ads by one poster or do a search.
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Christopher Schimke
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| You just have to dig through the hundreds of repeated ads by one poster or do a search. |
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