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• Re: The real story about the invention of the WBX?
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:02:09 -0800
  ...start with the carry-over 2.0L AC from the '79 Bay window bus. Despite all the bashing it gets on this list, the...
• Re: How to tighten vent wing
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 8 Aug 2014 14:25:45 -0500
  ...This was a piece of cake on the Bay window buses as well, why VW changed it is anybody's guess. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > Hi...
• Re: VW camper van article
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 20 Sep 2015 00:18:14 +0000
  ...left. > > People decorate bay windows as hippy vans , the mass of the > movement was dead by the time Bay Windows were introduced, and at...
• Re: Modern Japanese Vans with Retro Faux Split / Bay Window Looking Front Facades
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Tue, 2 Nov 2010 23:56:35 -0700
  dear 51 my absolute last word on this non friday non van bit ... david frum is on colbert tonight as the republican election icon...
• Re: conversions
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 24 Apr 95 14:01:42 bst
  ...shop? > Erik I've fitted a couple of pop-tops to bay-window buses. I've already sent out a long-winded description to...
• Re: diesel engine
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:15:36 -0700
  ...Crossing over from the Type 2 list, since I >have a '70 bubble, bay window, breadloaf, or whatever you want to call >it. I...
• Jump chairs & weekender set up
  Historical mailing list - Steve Blackham by way of Steve Blackham
  Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:16:59 -0600
  ...Also I have a freshly rebuilt 82.5 vanagon (engine, trans rebuilt) $2500 Also a Bay window Westy top...Free with donation to either...
• Re: Travel from Oregon to Austin
  Historical mailing list - Steve Blackham
  Fri, 10 May 2002 20:53:15 -0600
  ...I did it in my 77 bay window. Most adventurous road I've every been on. I don't think my wife will come...
• Re: Little Miss Sunshine
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:23:03 -0800
  ...a >> screwed up family and their roadtrip in a VW bus >> (bay window). Its >> funny. Go rent it. Not "holum family comedy", but >> funny...
• Re: simple heat for stove top, e-bay
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:48:30 -0800
  ...grill or kerosene heater, not safe for > indoor use unless the windows are open , so what would be the point? If that were true...
• Re: It's Frydaye and...
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:44:50 -0800
  ...However, I am in a pretty >good mood for the moment - sitting at work, but the view out the window of > >San Francisco Bay...
• Re: Internal 115V power
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:29:11 -0500
  ...I would think running around the engine bay in such a way as to avoid the engine would be prudent. Mike John Rodgers wrote...
• Re: Emergency/temporary window rubber fix
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:07:49 -0800
  Usually window seals leak between the glass and the rubber, not between the body and rubber (unless you have a lot of rust there...
• Re: in the year 2015......
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:39:35 -0500
  ...in the year 2015...... > > >> The down sides to the Bay and Split window are the absence of a big hole > >>> over the engine for...
• Re: Wheels and Tires need a home
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Fri, 22 Oct 2021 22:21:21 -0400
  ...He is then able to drive his lowered bay window into his garage. On tires it doesn’t fit. It stays like that until...
• Replacement Turn Signal Switches For '73 Bus
  Historical mailing list - Eric L. Borgen
  Sun, 14 Apr 96 16:19:00 PDT
  ...Thanks In Advance, Eric B. '73 Bus (Bay Window?)
• Re: Late Bus Pop Top on Splittie, possible ?
  Historical mailing list - Jay Brown
  Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:31:28 -0500
  ...Late Bus Pop Top on Splittie, possible ? Any chance that the Pop top from a 75 Bay window bus would fit a 66 Splittie...
• Window Air Conditioning
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Sun, 8 Aug 2004 14:21:18 -0500
  ...This auction at E-Bay mentions waking up gasping for air, and I can identify with this feeling. It would be nice to be...
• Re: Call for .. Actual Vehicle Weight info
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Mon, 21 Mar 2005 04:32:38 -0500
  ...some speculate that this is why 2wd vanagons perform worse in the snow/offroad than the bay window buses. buses supposedly have a rear...
• Re: Way off Vanagon content but of interest to older Vanagon owners.
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 31 May 2005 09:34:03 -0500
  I can't say what that might be in Vanagon years but in Splittie years that's 48, in Bay Window years that's...
• FS: 1971 Type 2 Panel Van $1500 from Vanagon trade-in
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:03:08 EDT
  I know this is not the best place to post this but thought some of you are loaf/bay window owners too. Anyway, I...
• Re: Vanagon 5-Lug spacing distance? & T1 vs T2
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 2 Apr 2001 23:33:47 +1200
  ...Bays were called T2 rather than T1/0.5. They were not a completely new body from the Splits...only the cab, side-window...
• Re: Transporterfest - 25th!
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:48:20 -0400
  Bay-window bus; 1700 ACVW -------------------------------------------------- From: "Bill M" <billmonk@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:03 AM To: "Mike" <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET...
• Re: Michelin tire report (bay window/vanagon)
  Historical mailing list - John Siple
  Mon, 08 Jul 1996 14:41:17 -0800
  Steve Tokar wrote: > > For those of you who are looking to replace those old Michelin XZX 185 R 14 > reinforced tires: > > Just bought a...
• Re: Busses in the Movies
  Historical mailing list - Paul M. Hillbish
  Fri, 9 Feb 2001 19:18:51 EST
  ...It is a bay window if I remember right, but I could be wrong. Also, there is a splitty used in Back to The...
• Side tent for sale
  Historical mailing list - Westyman
  Sat, 8 Nov 2003 13:17:18 -0800
  ...but should fit bays as well), it's huge at about 10x10, really heavy construction, gray and yellow. Picture window in front with a...
• Re: Sell my 91GL?????
  Historical mailing list - BJ Feddish
  Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:30:46 -0500
  ...Expect to pay at least $10K for a bay window camper and at least $15K for a Vanagon camper in excellent condition. Yeah yeah...
• Bugs out, and other annoyances
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Gilbert
  Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:25:22 EDT
  I just returned from a trip to Maryland's Lower Bay, but the bugs almost ruined the experience. Dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of tiny no...
• Re: What's your VANAGON age?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 11 May 2004 09:07:26 -0500
  I'm speculating that 80% or more of the people that own and drive VW Split Window, Bay Window and Vanagons are not on...
• Re: Mounted Spare Blowout
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Wed, 30 May 2007 04:17:16 -0700
  ...Mounted Spare Blowout > I've seen this happen before and every bay window driver should know never > to park the front of the van...
• Re: Alternate axle shaft locking mechanism for front brakes
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:37:37 -0500
  Bay window nuts have a clamp. Maybe that? Jim Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 18, 2021, at 9:29 PM, Alistair Bell <albell...
• 88 Waterboxer exhaust
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:25:58 PST
  ...I'm beginning to realise how much more expensive parts are for Vanagons compared to splits and bay windows. Having owned a 60 Kombi...
• Is a aircooled vanagon ECU different between automatic and manual transmissions?
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:45:18 -0500
  ...I know in the Bay window busses they had different ECU's....I figure this probably had something to do with duration of the...
• Re: Frydaye - Advice Needed re Tinted Windows and Dog
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:29:35 -0400
  ...over while > driving through Utah, for 'reflective windows', and busted when they > searched his bay window Westie and found a roach in the ashtray...
• Re: Insulation
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn
  Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:06:35 -0700
  ...In Germany there are actual double acrylic windows available for the vanagon (all the rear windows). They come in fixed, slider or vent type...
• Re: Many more Vanagons at BBB
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:11:20 -0500
  ...We were mostly all clustered >> together, surrounded by a sea of split windows and bays. This year out >> of at least 250 VW vans...
• Re: VW camper van article
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:00:06 -0500
  ...left. > >> People decorate bay windows as hippy vans , the mass of the movement was dead by the time Bay Windows were introduced, and at...
• LIMBO fun!
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Sun, 6 Jun 2010 18:22:02 -0400
  ...There were several bay windows, a thing, a bug or two, and a split window. Overall a wonderful experience which I hope to share...
• Re: 1971 on Bring a Trailer for sale
  Historical mailing list - KIM BRENNAN
  Tue, 1 May 2018 17:51:13 -0400
  ...No idea on the Bay window engine sizes as I was never a Bay window aficionado. > > >> On May 1, 2018, at 5:09 PM...
• Re: It's Frydaye and... SF memories
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
  Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:15:29 -0800
  ...moment - sitting at work, but the view out the window of San Francisco Bay on a sunny day is magnificent and inspiring - works for...
• Re: Van reactions
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Callaghan Jr.
  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 06:13:57 -0700
  ...This weekend a old dude on a late bay waved & smiled. Other then that I never get waved to. When I had bay windows...
• Greg Potts Sighting!!!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:50:31 -0400
  ...Bridge from Buffalo to Canada I saw the very distinct Red bay window with white maple leaf stickers heading the other direction on the...
• Re: Weakly Stats ...
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Fri, 23 Jun 95 12:46:17 CDT
  ...too many variations of buses!! :) >I see alot of bay window double cabs around Costa Mesa, CA and was just >curious. ?? hmmm. musta have...
• Re: [subaruvanagon] 79 or earlier Transporter (was RE: Engine swap help)
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 15 Jan 2002 20:37:02 +1200
  ...the multitude of fans and >enthusiasts as the 79 and earlier bays. I have one, >and I plan on doing the E-81 conversion...
• Re: Oil pump size differences? Boston Bob Customers?
  Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
  Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:24:20 -0800
  ...Email Living and Working in the SF Bay Area Automobiles: '83 VW Westy (watercooled); '77 VW Bay Window Other Info: http://communitybuilders.info/~craigoda/
• Re: Installing 3rd seatbelt/lapbelt in Westy
  Historical mailing list - David Prendergast
  Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:47:17 -0400
  ...wasn't sure if the bay window bus and the vanagon > belts are similar enough. If the bay belt will work on the > rear...
• Re: VW camping season started?
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Sun, 3 Mar 2019 19:16:59 -0700
  ...Today there were a 9 VW vans >> camped, all spread around in different spaces, seemingly all unrelated. >> >> 6 Vanagons >> 1 Bay window >> 1 Split...
• Re: Friday Topic: Short Vans
  Historical mailing list - Barry E. Muller
  Sat, 23 Nov 2002 06:48:07 -0500
  This is hilarious, last summer I saw that chopped bay-window north of Monroe, MI near where I work. Sitting at a little carry...
• Re: Need fuel pump advice. I also learned an effective way for getting rusty parts off!
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:30:58 -0700
  Does the aircooled vanagon motor use the bay window setup with a double relay for the fuel system? If so, I'd bet that...
• FS, Interior parts
  Historical mailing list - Dave Creasy
  Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:59:10 -0500
  ...Flannel sheet set which fits the Westy bed ( 1st floor ) Rear window screen from'78 Bay. Good condition. We are the second owner of...
• Re: Purchasing accessories in Germany
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn
  Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:38:19 -0700
  ...Once I purchsed double acrylic sliding windows for my van and carried them over as special baggage (free freight). Anyone needing tips for tax...
• German side tent FS, nice!
  Historical mailing list - Westyman
  Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:26:53 -0700
  I acquired a really nice German Vanagon side-tent this summer (could be used on a Bay as well, I suppose). It looks like...
• Re: berg shift kit
  Historical mailing list - Tony Polson
  Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:59:54 +0000
  ...I'm new to the list (used to be on the bay-window Type-2 list a > few years back) > I bought a 5...
• LVC - My 15 minutes of fame
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:44:14 -0500
  ...Needless to say I submitted some info on what I do for the local environmental group - Coalition for Buzzards Bay and I was selected...
• Re: Driving a splittie... NVC
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:03:00 -0800
  ...I remember looking for a bay just so I could hang my arm out the rolled down window <g>, I got a '71 in...
• 93 Microbus arrives: Anyone have a South African ETKA?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:08:24 +1300
  ...cover panel on right -cargo-bay side windows extend about 30mm lower -no "windowsill" below cargo-bay side windows, giving much more modern look...
• Re: Going, Gone, Crushed But!
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:15:18 -0700
  ...parts cheap > > I also have a good middle seat out of bay window FREE > > > > Thanks, > > Steve Blackham > Centerville, Utah > > > I'm not by my...
• Re: What the heck is this?
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:54:36 -0700
  ...On my 1972 bay window, the cannister could be > opened and rechraged by filling it with activated charcoal -- > purchasable from your FLPS (Friendly Local...
• Re: Gas heaters in Splitties
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Dec 95 15:33:25 PST
  ...Remember this is from a Haynes manual for bay window busses. I've never actually seen a gas heater in a bus, so I...
• Re: Loose Wind Wings 94 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Tue, 22 May 2007 09:51:59 -0700
  ...Unfortunately, adjusting the wing windows isn't so simple. The adjustment clamp is buried inside the door where it is difficult to reach. Need...