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• Re: Hot water tip came in handy, second squirter repair
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 2 Sep 2024 19:43:42 -0400
  ...Very fun when I find a bay window item like that on my vanagon. Eric Caron > On Sep 2, 2024, at 11:32 AM...
• Re: [WetWesties] Who waves at whom ? ?
  Historical mailing list - David Etter
  Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:38:02 -0400
  ...This is followed by (take your pick) Vanagon based Westys and Bay Window Westys. Within each style there are sub categories that may elevate...
• RE: 77 price comparison
  Historical mailing list - Wagner Michael
  14 Jun 1995 10:46:12 -0800
  ...the Westy was +10,000 more than the plain Vanagons! Same with the bay windows... micros are as far out of my price range...
• Re: Waving Vanagon drivers (again)
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Wed, 13 Sep 1995 11:13:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...I certainly do! And so do other bay-window denizens I've seen. Look around! Perhaps that pillar in the middle of your windshield...
• drums to discs.
  Historical mailing list
  21 Sep 95 9:33
  ...I have a mate who has a '68 Bay Window bus, and it's getting a big motor (Type IV, Porcshe fan etc.). Now...
• rust spot on sliding window opening
  Historical mailing list - McComas_Glenn
  Sun, 6 Feb 2000 09:22:22 -0500
  ...Glenn McComas, Queenstown, Maryland 87 Vanagon; 69 Baywindow; 87 v.d.p. XJ6; plus some cars that run.
• Re: Of course a vanagon is a bus!
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Fri, 3 Feb 2006 16:17:34 -0700
  > on 2/3/06 4:10 PM, bueses at bueses@EARTHLINK.NET wrote: > >> The split & bay window vw vintage bus nazis would say that...
• Re: BBTB (Craggy first) or Bust! .... Trip report
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:20:21 -0800
  ...4 vanagons (3 were westys), one bay Westy and an early bus with the small rear window in Santa Cruz. Weather still good, not...
• Re: hey howdy
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:31:32 -0700
  ...the 'Bays' still arise here) then the 'Bay Window' AND at the bottom of the list lie the Eurovans, (Phew! open the windows in...
• Re: nomenclature variation ...
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Aug 1994 20:51:33 -0600 (CDT)
  ...1968-1979 are Buses, or Bread-Loafs (or just Loafs), or Bay-Windows, ]and 1980-1991 are Vanagons or Caravelles or Bricks ... If I...
• Re: Is this bay window auction for real?
  Historical mailing list - BJ Feddish
  Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:05:03 -0400
  ...Is this bay window auction for real? Here's the reply I got... To: sale-460765279@craigslist.org *please send me info on this...
• Pop Top Canvas And Little Blocks of Wood
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:40:01 +0000
  ...Anyway, this is my first Vanagon canvas replacement, have done 2 Bays ( A big WOOHOO for no %$#& staples and plastic strips) . The old canvas...
• VW 4sale, and 1 wanted for trade
  Historical mailing list - (Jeff P. Schneiter)
  Wed, 21 Sep 1994 12:15:00 -0700
  Just cruisin' for any nibbles here...but my roommate wants a split window microbus and has a real nice '69 Impala to trade. It...
• Re: FS: full set of vanagon power door lock actuators, grey doorpanels
  Historical mailing list - mike boland
  Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:39:19 -0500
  ...it's not e bay.. At 10:40 AM 4/29/2003 -0400, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote: >for sale: all four vanagon central power...
• Re: Anybody know if this Type rear hatch is stock?
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:27:55 -0600
  ...Has anyone else? > > BenT I have never seen that rear split window before either, but it looks like a late split or bay bus...
• Re: Photo Tour of VW Auto Museum and Autostadt, Wolfsburg, Germany
  Historical mailing list - Calle Fallberg
  Tue, 1 Jun 2004 23:22:49 +0200
  ...group of vehicles, > new beetles, old beetles, vanagons, syncros, > split-windows, bay-windows, etc. > Here's the link: > http://www.vwtravels.com/vw_museum...
• Re: Anybody know if this Type rear hatch is stock?
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:54:38 -0600
  ...have never seen that rear split window before either, but it looks like >> a >> late split or bay bus rear hatch? Could be a...
• Re: Tach needed, anyone able to help, and trip report
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Sun, 18 Aug 2024 17:22:11 +0000
  ...bay windows out on the roads. > The largest number in Canada. > >        We traveled in a group of 4 including 3 vanagons and 1 bay...
• Re: Roof-center pop top ?
  Historical mailing list - Peter T. Owsianowski
  Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:32:18 -0400
  ...On 8/27/09, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote: > Yesterday I saw a Bay Window with a pop-top (both ends rose equally...
• Re: "Granny Cars" (Element, Scion, etc)
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:56:57 -0500
  ...I had wanted a VW bus for years and years - my affection started with the Bay Windows and then I bought a book and...
• Re: home-made pressure bleeder
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:57:38 -0400
  ...On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Courtney Hook <courtneyhook@shaw.ca> wrote: > Will this work on my type2 bay window? It...
• Re: Off-topic: need a fuel tank for a loaf westy
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Johnson
  Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:35:59 -0600
  Not sure what year you have(if it matters?) A friend of mine with a bay window has been looking for a new aftermarket...
• Re: jacks
  Historical mailing list - Eric Henning
  Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:57:35 -0500
  Brent: >I believe these are all the same, even for the earlier bay window (and maybe >even splitties?) buses. They should be pretty plentiful...
• Re: two sliding doors: [T2] Body seam question
  Historical mailing list - wb6otg
  Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:29:14 -0400
  ...I have read somewhere that some baywindow busses were made this way, and there were split window busses with two sets of hinged doors...
• Re: pics of the infamous pick n pull van!
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Thu, 3 Apr 2008 01:08:55 -0400
  ...I'm not sure that memory is of Bay Windows or Vanagon Westy's though. On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:38 AM, Paul...
• Re: Bus windows
  Historical mailing list - Dave Yates
  Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:47:18 +1000
  ...They were officially bastardized by VW. =) Kind of like those watercooled > bay window buses from Mexico. Looks like someone > made the radiator enclosure in...
• Re: Can Stationary Wing Windows Be Replaced With Wings That Open??
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:03:22 -0700
  They were interchangable on Bays, and I'd expect likewise with T3s. Not that I've checked... On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9...
• Re: breadloaf EV sighting
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:23:34 -0500
  ...I usually call that style of bus a Bay Window. Earlier bus is splitty, Vanagon just vanagon or bus as the nick names are...
• Re: Crypto Vanagonites!
  Historical mailing list - Tim
  Sun, 6 Jan 2002 02:02:49 -0800
  can't resist. "Who is that doggie in the window" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julianna Thoennes" <mumbrue@ATTBI.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent...
• Body parts for sale!
  Historical mailing list - Darrel Combs
  Mon, 15 Jul 2002 21:01:36 -0400
  vanagon 81-85 body parts for sale passengers door drivers door sliding door rear hatch NO Dings NO rust Ready for shipping Bay window...
• Fw: Re: [VANAGON] vanagon chess set
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:06:43 -0600
  ...different gender" from the splitty/bay/vanagon buses ... that is, its engine is in the front. ;) > King - 21 window samba splittie, with sunroof. and...
• Re: ADVENTUREWAGEN molds - further update
  Historical mailing list - jbange
  Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:24:41 -0800
  ...that had a flat front edge along the top of the window (bay roofs are curved, less flat) or a reverse-angled rear vent...
• Re: Another portable AC question
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 2 Jul 2005 13:31:37 -0500
  No! A/C condensers can be laid flat like in Bay Window bus installations. One end does need to be slightly higher by 1...
• Re: Time to upgrade...
  Historical mailing list - William A. Killian
  Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:39:39 -0500 (EST)
  ...body for the same reason the retired the split window in 1968 and the baywindow in 1980. (or call it 1967 and 1979) They...
• Re: Spare tire mounted on vanagon nose?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:41:33 EST
  ...on the front of our Vanagons, like you can with the bay window '70s vans? I have never seen a vanagon this way... >> i...
• Re: Avon Tyres - Vanagon applications
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Grove
  Sat, 25 Aug 2001 08:07:21 -0700
  ...2.8 bar = 40 psi, for reference. > I used to use Avon's on my old Bay window. They were fine but used to...
• Re: Vanagon use question
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 8 Oct 2005 19:23:59 -0500
  I've carried a pony in a bay-window bus lots of times. Jim On Oct 8, 2005, at 1:09 PM, jimt wrote...
• Re: Reason for Saddle-shaped gas tank-Syncro tank into 2WD Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:12:23 -0400
  ...give my 2WD at least the off-road capacity of a bay-window van. Put after stripping away the van and seeing that tank...
• Re: VW camper van article
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:02:03 -0400
  ...left. > People decorate bay windows as hippy vans , the mass of the movement was dead by the time Bay Windows were introduced, and at...
• Advice on Bay Window Bus gas tank venting system
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:59:10 -0500
  I am slowly restoring a 74 Bus that went through a salt water bath up to the mid height of the van. One of...
• Bus sighting> Macromedia,Inc.
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:39:35 -0700
  ...a demo of its luminosity/rendering capabilities several views of a bay window are provided within a dialog box labeled "67 Van." (HONK!~wrong...
• Re: converting watercooled vanagon to aircooled
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:44:50 +0200
  ...is, but not the honorable Type1! You are correct that the bay-window bus is watercooled, that one is produced with a 1,8...
• Re: Mexican Bus??
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Fri, 1 Oct 1999 18:40:45 +0200
  ...We, in our wonderment, were >> > > how do you know it was mexican? the rad? The mexican bay window bus also has this rather boxy...
• Idle Fry-day Vanagon Sighting...
  Historical mailing list - Alan Bosch
  Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:44:40 -0500
  ...equipment - and there, plain as day, is the nose of a bay-window and the tail-end of a Vanagon. Alan Bosch & Phred ('88...
• Alloys
  Historical mailing list - Isaiah
  Fri, 15 Mar 2002 06:48:25 -0600
  ...I was wondering if anyone had any experience fitting a set of vanagon stock 14" alloys to an earlier bay window bus. 71-92...
• Re: curtains
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn
  Mon, 3 Aug 1998 13:18:15 -0700
  ...Front and front door windows: attach with velcro, use the adhesive type on the rubber of the front window and around the window frame...
• Re: Engine compartment seal
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:58:49 -0700
  BTDT The Bay Window Engine Seal is a poor make-do, it's not even long enough to go around the engine. Best to...
• Re: 70's automatic Vanagons?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:40:35 -0500
  ...The previous generations of VW Transporters is commonly referred to a Bay Window Buses or Loafs. I owned a 1976 Bay 7 passenger with...
• Re: Of course a vanagon is a bus!
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Fri, 3 Feb 2006 16:19:37 -0700
  ...Of course a vanagon is a bus! > >> The split & bay window vw vintage bus nazis would say that vanagons & >> eurovans are not buses anymore...
• Re: Vanagon on Wheeler-Dealers
  Historical mailing list - Abel Longoria
  Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:48:58 -0500
  ...On Aug 11, 2014 3:42 PM, "Chris S." <szpejankowski@gmail.com> wrote: > Was there another? This one is a T2 bay window. Lovely...
• Re: Bus and Vanagon sightings
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sun, 25 May 2014 17:17:29 -0700
  ...Anyone form the list? I am currently in Barefoot Bay due to my mothers passing last Monday. I will be here through most of...
• RFI - slightly off-topic - old VW ads on the net
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 18 Aug 97 13:39:57 -0700
  ...for the "Baywatch" crew cab and bus were posted last week, I ran out and copied the picture down to my WindowsNT "wallpaper". What...
• Re: tent
  Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
  Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:00:26 EST
  ...The early bay window busses only slept two comfortably and the tent made more sense for them. Tom '71 Westy, '85 Westy, '91 Carat...
• Re: V8 into Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:01:04 -0800
  ...went to pick up my rebuild > diesel injectors, there was a bay window bus with a V8 in the back, > twin pipes and all...
• Re: 12 volt X-Mas Lights!?
  Historical mailing list - Vdub Guy
  Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:07:30 +0000
  ...I decorated my old bay window one year, but it wasn't running and stayed in the driveway. Right now all I want for...
• Re: Craigslist 69 Splitty no pic
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Sun, 6 Jan 2008 13:35:13 -0700
  Bay windows were introduced in 1968, but VW still made splitties in SA & Brazil until 1975 +_. Not sure about Australia & Kiwi Land? YMMV, Tom...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list - J. Walker
  Tue, 04 Oct 94 10:11:42 CDT
  ...all the other nicknames (split-window, bread-loaf/bay-window, brick) refer to an external feature or the shape of the bus. besides ... EuroVans...
• Re: "Bus" or "Vanagon" ? (f) (was: Yahoo club for aircooled Vanagons
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 14 Oct 1999 04:39:42 EDT
  ...the classic type 2 rounded shaped split window Microbus was introduced in 1950, continued until '67, and then the Baywindow Bus from '68-'79...
• No Wonder My VW's Love Me!
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Stewart
  Sat, 22 Mar 2003 19:27:20 -0500
  ...missing passenger side mirror, missing sliding door handle(outside), left front turn signal inop, no dash lights, window cranks broken, 3 holes in the...
• Re: Those of us in the Midlands
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 16 Nov 94 09:29:01 CST
  ...Up to 1963 it had 23 windows, but from 1964-1967 two back corner windows were eliminated, hence the 21-window Deluxe Microbus. As...