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• vanagon westfalia poptops for sale (whole fiberglass/canvas top)
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:56:50 EST
  i have 2 complete vanagon westfalia poptops with the double bed and luggage pack, with excellent fiberglass, and canvas, for sale. i will cut...
• Re: Mould (mold?) on canvas
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:37:41 -0700
  ...Ladies and gents: >> >> I have an 85 Westfalia with the original canvas. �Canvas is in generally >> good shape but a bit of mould has...
• Re: Advice Needed: Poptop Seal - 82D Westflailia
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 17 Jul 1996 03:42:16
  ...We were VERY impressed with the quality and price of the canvas. As I recall, his literature also indicated that he sells rust-proof...
• Re: Canvas Replacement ?? OEM Quality ?? Three Window??
  Historical mailing list - Steve Schwenk
  Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:55:55 -0700
  ...Is the stock VW replacement still available? The Bus Depot wrote: > > > I need a source for high (OEM) quality replacement canvas. Must be > > grey...
• Re: New owners requesting advise on replacing canvas poptop
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:08:16 -0500
  There is / was a company in Austin Texas that was manufacturing the canvas in about four colors and three screen options from about $275...
• Re: Poptop Tent Material; Breathability Means ....
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:49:12 -0400
  ...An OEM German poptop canvas will generally outlast your need for it. Consider that your original canvas poptop tent probably lasted, what, 20 or...
• Re: pop top canvas question
  Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
  Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:34:50 -0800
  ...I'll admit I'm jealous of my friends with their 3-window canvases when we go camping in August and a cross-breeze...
• Re: CANVAS
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:56:33 -0700
  ...CANVAS> I have a tear in my canvas about 16" long near the top of the driver side. I > was wondering if any body...
• Bus Depot Canvas Questions
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014 19:01:20 -0700
  Getting ready to order new canvas for the Starwagen (25 year old original getting in bad shape) and debating about the OEM ($399) vs...
• Re: Canvas Replacement-I Regret Ever Buying This Van!!!!!!!!!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:19:53 -0700
  ...see that nothing has changed!� :-) here is my post of the canvas installation.� I didn't curse, nor get claustrophobia, nor get blisters, nor...
• Cleaning the Canvas
  Historical mailing list - Melissa J. Cullison
  Thu, 24 Jun 1999 17:02:04 -0500
  ...The canvas is in great shape but has a few black marks where it folds up. Any idea what to use to clean it...
• Re: water repellant for canvas
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:22:01 +0100
  ...My plan - when I need to replace the canvas - is to use one of those high-tech breathable tent nylons now available (there's...
• Re: 76 pop-top canvas
  Historical mailing list - Tobin T. Copley
  Sat, 3 Jun 1995 07:48:22 -0700 (PDT)
  ...Anyway, can anyone give me an idea of what it > might cost to get a replacement, mail-order or otherwise? The 'canvas' IS the...
• Replacement Pop-top Canvas: Whose is best?
  Historical mailing list - John Sutter
  Mon, 5 Dec 1994 17:05:24 -0500
  Well, it's time to replace my pop-top canvas and probably the gasket too. Who has the best replacements? Who should I avoid...
• Westfalia Canvas For Sale
  Historical mailing list - charles fladger
  Thu, 13 May 1999 18:39:50 -0700
  ...For those who need a new canvas for their 80-91 Westfalia check out: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item...
• Re: pop top canvas install question
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:52:05 -0700
  ...Notice that the aluminum trim is applied "upside down", with the groove up for the bottom of the canvas. Bob Stevens http://groups.msn...
• Re: New Poptop rubber seal and canvas installer needed - Vancouver
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:50:48 -0600
  If I recall correctly it took me 7 hours to replace my canvas by removing the top. Got help from John C. here in...
• Pop top canvas repair
  Historical mailing list - Debra Clark
  Sat, 1 Jun 2002 08:43:01 -0700
  ...Having already spent a lot on our relatively, newly acquired Vanagon, are there any recommendations for repairing the canvas to get me through this...
• Re: pop top canvas question
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:37:32 -0500
  ...I'll admit I'm jealous of my friends with their 3-window canvases when we go camping in August and a cross-breeze...
• Re: Questions about (making) 3 window Westy Canvas
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:26:01 -0500
  > Has anyone out there used Sunbrella for poptop canvas? I used to make > marine tops with it, and it seems like it might be...
• Re: canvas weather resistance?
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:08:55 -0700
  ...Aside from the rivulets that come in at the edges of the screen (with the canvas flap up, of course), I suddenly had water...
• Re: 3 Window Westfalia canvas
  Historical mailing list - James H. McCarthy
  Wed, 31 Mar 1999 13:25:28 -0500
  When we moved from an '87 Westy to a '95 EurovanCamper, we moved from one window in the canvas popup to 3 windows in...
• Perfect place for Sirius antenna in a Westy
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:25:04 -0400
  ...With the top latched, the canvas covers the antenna but both the canvas and the fiberglass top are transparent to it. I never lost...
• which poptop canvas to purchase?
  Historical mailing list - Matthew
  Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:54:31 -0800
  folks, it is time for a new poptop canvas for the Vanagon Westy. There are about 6 different varieties out there. What have folks...
• Poptop Canvas Install...help!
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:03:26 -0700
  Installing a 3-window canvas in an 84 Westy -- it's the version from the BusDepot (apparently originating from JustKampers in the UK). http...
• Re: Riviera canvas replacement
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Seurynck
  Sun, 6 Aug 2017 03:08:22 +0000
  ...24 PM Skylar Tennent <mediamojo@hotmail.com> wrote: > Have the new canvas no instructions. Anyone have advice how to install it? > Sent from my...
• Pop too install 81 with staples
  Historical mailing list - David Parsons
  Sat, 4 Oct 2014 12:49:28 -0400
  I just bought a new canvas for BD. OG style. I'm doing it off the VANAGON. It's an 81 with staples.Anyone...
• Re: New Canvas Adventure
  Historical mailing list - Warren Chapman
  Mon, 31 Dec 2001 20:53:33 -0500
  ...that hold the canvas to the fiberglass pop- top. I thought about just putting three screws in each side of the top then fastening...
• Free 83 Westy body,pop top and canvas
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schiebel
  Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:32:26 EDT
  Hi, I have an 83 Westfalia body, top and canvas that I have to have moved within the next couple of days. The body...
• Re: Custom Westy Poptop Canvases?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:57:33 -0700
  ...On 10/24/07, Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote: > Tom, is that 46" fabric wide enough for the top canvas? Because if...
• Re: Pop Up window screen replacement
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:20:32 -0700
  ...1 last year Kirkhams has stopped doing any custom canvas work-they still do repair work on pieces you send them, but no new...
• Re: pop top staples vs screws, was Re: [vanagon] Fwd: Pop-Top Canvas Replacement Video
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 6 Jun 2010 18:47:24 -0400
  ...I recently took the canvas off my '82 westy, had >screw in top and bottom. > >know when the switch was form staples to screws...
• Westy restoration
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 10 May 1994 11:07:05 -0700
  ...I have a couple of articles (canvas top replacement and torsion bar adjustment), but sure would like the whole series. Does anybody have the...
• Re: CANVAS
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Sat, 13 Mar 2004 19:33:32 -0800
  patrick wrote: > I have a tear in my canvas about 16" long near the top of the driver side. I was wondering if any...
• Re: Canvas Replacement
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:44:46 -0800
  ...In > tan, we offer our European sourced aftermarket poptop canvas in either > 1-window ($179) or 3-window ($237), as well as the OEM...
• Re: Pop Up window screen replacement
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:52:38 -0700
  ...I know I could replace the whole canvas, but the > canvas is in very good shape. I simply want to purchase a replacement > screen...
• Re: Pop-top canvas replacement.
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:48:31 -0400
  ...Pop-top canvas replacement. > > > OK, folks here is a can of worms to be opened. I need to change the > canvass on my '87...
• Re: POPTOP QUESTION,
  Historical mailing list - William Alan Killian
  Thu, 21 Dec 1995 15:21:09 -0500 (EST)
  ...The canvas parts were fine. We learned this by the way in the middle of July in a snow storm in Yellowstone Park not...
• Re: 85 westy FS
  Historical mailing list - Jim Huskins
  Tue, 9 Nov 1999 15:47:21 -0500
  ...The canvas has holes on both sides because the PO let his grandchildren play in it during fall of '97 and they put the...
• Pop canvas roof on vanagon video wanted
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:49:44 -0500
  Hey all Moons ago I saw a video of a guy at a campground or vw camping event and replaced a poptop canvas on...
• Re: Vangon curtains/canvas?
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Tue, 13 Jun 2000 08:57:58 -0700
  ...Joel 89 Syncr Westy Rochester NY. --- Richard Lynch <rlynch@INFOSAT.COM> wrote: > Has anyone seen a vendor with a curtain or window canvas kit...
• Re: Guess what?
  Historical mailing list - Yoshi
  Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:04:52 +0900
  ...He couldn't have time therefore to install canvas. Okay? However, he will install canvas soon. Because, his eaddress is "magicbus@..." !! Y_O_S...
• Re: New pop top canvas
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Mon, 8 Mar 2004 06:39:37 -0800
  --- vanagon <vanagon@ASTOUND.NET> wrote: > Anybody had good or bad luck with aftermarket pop > top canvas? I would like to update to the 3...
• Re: the drawn out pop top conversion update
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:15:08 -0700
  If you very carefully install the canvas hold down strips on the roof first it will be more obvious if the large hole marking...
• Re: Pop top canvas hinge dirt
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Casal
  Wed, 7 Jul 2021 09:54:31 -0400
  ...Pop top canvas hinge dirt > >> Hey volks, > >> What do you guys do to prevent the hinge dust from soiling your pop top > >> canvas? I...
• Re: Black Bears vs Westy Canvas?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:02:19 -0700
  ...Black Bears vs Westy Canvas? Why can't we all just exercise our right to bear arms so we may protect ourselves from all...
• Re: Bus Depot Canvas Questions
  Historical mailing list - J B
  Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:15:14 -0400
  ...Bus Depot Canvas Questions I used the $249 BusDepot version. It came out perfect just as Ron said. Not = too hard an install. Huge...
• Re: pop-top (closing)
  Historical mailing list - BRENT CHRISTENSEN
  Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:24:22 -0800
  ...the pressure inside the van will force the canvas to "bellows" out, and thereby have a greater tendency to get stuck in the hinges...
• Re: pop top canvas question
  Historical mailing list - Jack R
  Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:20:32 -0500
  ...pop top canvas question Hi listers, I was wondering how many of us still have our original canvas. I’m still using mine and...
• Screen replacement success Jonce Fancher products
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sun, 5 Jul 2015 18:18:10 -0400
  ...I just installed, ok my girlfriend installed, the replacement screen for my original 85 canvas. Strangely my original ver 30 year old canvas is...
• Re: Pop canvas roof on vanagon video wanted
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:04:13 -0500
  ...I replaced my canvas without removing the top. The trick is...you don't raise the top all the way. Put a folding chair...
• Re: Questions about (making) 3 window Westy Canvas
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:38:04 -0500
  ...My present Westy has only one window (still has the original canvas), and while I certainly couldn't justify replacing it just to get...
• Re: Waterproofing the pop-top canvas
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Ensing
  Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:02:58 EDT
  ...I think interior humidity was getting into the interior of the canvas, too. This takes me back to a thought I had before: making...
• Re: changing pop-top canvas
  Historical mailing list - John C...
  Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:30:08 +0000
  > That's the way I did my canvas change. Help from John Carpenter, my Salt Lake > neighbor, kind enough to help me out with...
• Re: Reproducing vanagon parts. (was: Re: Pzwo foglight kit, wheel archs, etc....
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:53:47 -0700
  ...That is not a canopy I can/wantr to produce- I am talking the more traditional canvas or even sunbrella canopies. > truth.. like i...
• Re: tents? popups? who cares?
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 15 Jun 1996 13:32:35 -0400
  ...Language Jerk writes: >Please stop referring to that fiberglass-roofed, canvas-sided thing >that pops up atop your westy as a tent. It ain...
• Re: Canvas Tent on ebay
  Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
  Tue, 5 Feb 2002 08:52:57 -0500
  ...04, 2002 11:46 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Canvas Tent on ebay Dear Volks, If interested, please see it here: http...
• Re: Poptop Canvas Install
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:48:08 -0600
  ...My 82westy almost completed body and paint my canvas and seals await my installation which im cautiously anticipating thanks for the tips On Apr...
• Anyone have Good (used?) Westy Pop-top Canvas?
  Historical mailing list - Cary
  Sat, 17 May 2003 02:39:18 GMT
  ...This is NOT a Friday joke! I am looking for in-expensive pop-top canvas in reasonably good condition, in grey or tan, one...
• Re: [WetWesties] waterproofing (was RE: RAISED ROOF hard tops
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:23:16 -0700
  ...Cya, Robert > --- Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > >> How do you keep water from seeping through the canvas or the canvas seams >> in...