Newer Westy interior

[Campy]

I was at an auto wrecker, today, and I looked at a 1985 Vanagon with a clean, complete westfalia interior. It has the refrigerator (electric?) with stove and cabinets along the driver's side wall. The curtains are like new and have the little plastic hooks at the top, which attach to a recessed runner. It even has the little storage area that is mounted beneath the roof at the rear and the rear pad. The rear seat had the WESTFALIA-WERKE metal tag on the front (I took it) with type:216 093. The whole kit and caboodle would cost $85.
Is this worth buying and would it be difficult to install it in a pre-1968 bus? It couldn't be a walk-thru bus with the spare tire in the left rear because a cabinet would go there.

[krusher]

Hell its only $85 you can fit some of it somhow.

[Stocknazi]

if you got somewhere to put it buy it. i dont think the value or demand for anything thats made by westfalia will be dropping in the future.
sounds like a fair deal
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58 Westfalia cabinet knobs (3 needed), roof rack, and (7) privy tent poles (silver painted).

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[pyrOman]

I believe the bed/seat in my Dormy came out of a square van.

Don't quite recall what the westy tag says but the closet that came with it had a funky shaped contour to it that didn't match the door frame plus it has that dark laminate.

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[Campy]

I'm close to the point of having to get a warehouse but I'm on my way.
It has the pop up roof with good canvas in the center of the roof. Is that worth getting?

[pyrOman]

Are you talking about getting just the roof poptop or the whole van?

I would NOT take a square van even if my life depended on it.

Parts is a different story though. However, grafting a fatchick westy top unto a splitbus is no easy task so I'm sure it'd be much more difficult to do that using a square van top.
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[Stocknazi]

pyro, looks like your z bed came from a campmobile 70. i think that is a 72-74 bed. not out of a vanagon.
campy, does the vanagon have a small 4x4 poptop? it might be the same as a euro bay westy or a so42? probably worth getting.
hell, get the whole thing and part it out, then sell the body cheap or scrap it.
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WANTED:
58 Westfalia cabinet knobs (3 needed), roof rack, and (7) privy tent poles (silver painted).

"When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Thomas Jefferson

[Campy]

Since I have a neighbor who thinks that it is an elite neighborhood and I have four buses, whch he doesn't like, I don't want to get the body, just the camper interior. The roof is the small pop up type.
I like the look of the camper interior in the Vanagon. There is an ad for one for $700 in the listing for Vanagon parts here. You can see a picture of the unit if you go to the ad. I thought that for $85 I couldn't go wrong. It looked like it would be a pain in the butt to remove, though.
The only problem I see is that the old buses are shorter. I put Westfalia camper units from 1970s buses in two of my split windshield buses and all I had to do was cut a few inches off of the rear of each cabinet and cut a small notch at the top of the front of each closet. I couldn't put the ice box in my 1957 bus, though, because it isn't a walk-thru.
Since the cabinets, ice box, and stove in the 1985 setup fit along the driver's side wall, if I wanted to put it in my 1958 walk-thru bus, the rear cabinet would have to be adapted to go over the spare tire in the left rear or else left out.
Since my 1957 bus isn't a walk-thru, it would probably be better to put the unit in it. It doesn't have room for the larger ice box behind the passenger side of the bench seat, so this would solve that problem by having it against the driver's side wall, near the rear seat and, of course, the spare tire is behind the bench seat.

[pyrOman]

Post some pictures of all that stuff!!!
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[oorwullie]

just to clarify a few points. vanagon z bed or any of the furniture will not fit nicely in a split without serious modification and while a bay turret poptop can be easily modified to fit a vanagon roof there is no way a vanagon one will fit a bay or a split.

go look and take a tape measure.

[Campy]

I will check it out tomorrow. Thanks.

[Stocknazi]

that poptop probably is worth getting. someone will need the mechanisms and other parts from it for their so42 im sure
keep is updated. and by the way your neibor sounds like a real prick
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WANTED:
58 Westfalia cabinet knobs (3 needed), roof rack, and (7) privy tent poles (silver painted).

"When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Thomas Jefferson

[Campy]

Yea, he's the same neighbor who, about six years ago, complained five times about my '58 bus on jackstands on the driveway and said it looked bad for the neighborhood (this is the end of a court). I was doing a full restoration so it had no running gear and I told him, "What do you want me to do? Rent a helicopter to move it?"
I have a beard, long hair, an uncut lawn, and a bunch of old buses and bus parts in a higher income neighborhood. I guess that everyone in the neighborhood thinks that I have a wild hair and don't fit the image for the 'hood.
The flash never worked in my digital camera when I bought it new but I'll take some pictures of the stuff, tomorrow.

[MrBusCo]

This thread is kinda old, but I was wondering if you ever got around to putting the vanagon westy interior into a split bus? I would like to know what sort of mods it took and pics if anyone has some. I feel like I have seen the westy stove/sink cabinets in someones split and it covered up some of the windows...

The interior is the next step on my bus and am considering all my options, Vanagon kits are easy to find and complete in good condition, I do like the white ones.

Any information is appreciated. If you want to PM me instead of replying in the post so you are not outed as knowing anything about Vanagons that is cool, I won't tell...

[EmpiGT]

I just searched and found this old thread, like the last post has anyone put vanagon westy stuff in a splitty? if so any pics?

[ZENVWDRIVER]

... never did a Vanagon interior in a Splitty, but did put one in my Ford E150... I'm sure the bed would go right is as well as everything else... will tell you... would be the most comfortable Splitty around.

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[EmpiGT]

Thank's Bernie, I'm going to give it a try, The only issue I think might be the rear most vanagon cabinet on the driver's side.