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• Re: Gas Tank Reseal Kit
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Thu, 1 Mar 2012 05:36:30 -0800
  ...There are at least 2 Vanagons out there and several Bay window buses that I fixed a bunch of stuff on then sold. This...
• Re: Where To Buy a Windshield
  Historical mailing list - Don Hundt
  Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:36:07 -0800
  ...I used them before for a Bay window bus, and they asked if I > wanted to pick it up from their "warehouse" to save...
• Convertible VW Bus
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:19:42 -0700
  ...a 68-ish Baywindow bus.� He cut behind the front windshield, then above the "waistline" all around, removing all rear windows in the process...
• Re: ASA Type 8 (Mercedes) wheels from tire rack for a vanagon - Any steel ones??
  Historical mailing list - Courtney Hook
  Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:37:33 -0800
  ...comes across 15" steel wheels that will bolt onto my 77 bay window? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Always be yourself, because the people that matter don't mind...
• Re: Late Bus Pop Top on Splittie, possible ?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:01:09 -0800
  ...COM writes: > > >> Any chance that the Pop top from a 75 Bay window bus would fit a 66 >> Splittie? >> I've located a decent...
• Many more Vanagons at BBB
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:59:26 -0800
  ...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: FS: 87 Synchro
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:04:17 -0900
  ...87 Synchro > To fellow listerines, > > Before I go to E-Bay with this, I thought I would see if there is any > interest in...
• Re: European syncro safari (Vanfest)
  Historical mailing list - John Herbert
  Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:16:42 +0100
  ...there was about three thousand vans, the bulk of which were Bay windows. John Herbert 90 Vanagon Multivan 90 Golf GTI Cabriolet 98 Polo...
• Re: two sliding doors: [T2] Body seam question
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:34:29 -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...
• '67 Bus for sale. 21 window.
  Historical mailing list - Chris Chubb
  Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:40:22 -0400
  ...67 21 window bus. From what I could see, it looked mostly solid. There was a hole in the cargo bay floor and a...
• Re: awk! -- speakers sound great but....
  Historical mailing list - Julianna Thoennes
  Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:11:08 -0700
  ...Julianna 90 VW Vanagon Westfalia 76 VW Automatic Bay Westfalia 74 VW Beetle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stan Wilder" <wilden1@JUNO.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY...
• Re: replacing window glass seals
  Historical mailing list - Brett Ne
  Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:21:18 -0800
  ...Now, this is a Riviera rather than a Westfalia, and they chose to mount the screen on the outside of the sliding windows by...
• Re: What's a Vanagon "Sport"?
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:56:12 -0400
  In a lot of the rest of the world, the vehicles we in the US know of as "Vanagon" or Bay Window, or Splittie...
• Re: Emergency/temporary window rubber fix
  Historical mailing list - Courtney Hook
  Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:52:17 -0800
  ...I used it on my baywindow about 2 yrs ago, with complete success on the windshield passenger side corner. It is a very "seeking...
• Kristen Laurite was What's that? - a single woman's view on camping and safety (you asked...)
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:22:02 -0700
  ...She was driving a '71 Bay Window, not a Vanagon. She was murdered in an Arkansas rest area by Ronald James Ward Jr on...
• Parting out Air-Cooled Vanagon!
  Historical mailing list - Andy Gaston
  Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:34:30 EDT
  ...parts for early bay window buses, upright engines. Thanks, Andy '69 deluxe bus remnants of '80 vanagon
• Parking side by side (The family thing)
  Historical mailing list - Paul M. Hillbish
  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:02:36 EDT
  ...One night, I had a splitty and a bay window flanking either side of my W/C Van. I get waved at a lot...
• Re: engine seal needed
  Historical mailing list - Paul Archibald
  Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:57:07 -0700
  ...for four bucks! another choice is the foam one from the bay window bus...same engine, onloy$25.00 Paul --- JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote...
• Back from VA and that X-Treme tape saved the day
  Historical mailing list - BJ Feddish
  Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:14:15 -0400
  ...I'm still trying to figure out who blew past us on 81 in the bay window. We were both doing 70 and that...
• Re: window mounted swamp coolers
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 24 Jun 2004 02:58:01 -0500
  ...I've got 2 vintage window > mounted swamp coolers, one with and one without a fan, up on e-bay motors. > Item number 2482822954...
• Re: Old Bus Review/Wannabusers
  Historical mailing list - rachel martin
  Mon, 1 Jan 1996 11:54:12 -0700 (MST)
  ...FYI, 21 split-window buses, 7-bay > window and 2-Vanagons are listed for sale all over the USA. > > I saw a few names...
• Re: Fwd: SPAM: Interesting item on eBay web site item#585802949: vw van
  Historical mailing list - Anthony L. Mourkas
  Fri, 4 May 2001 10:22:20 -0400
  ...much more substantial set of "jailbars" when looking out the rear window! I don't mind an occasional alert to a Vanagon item on...
• Propane tank
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Perry
  Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:22:35 +0000
  So I bought a bay window propane tank cheap and refurbished to new. All works as far as I can tell. Here is my...
• AZ, was RE: should I Buy a '73 for parts?
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 15 Apr 1996 22:54:40 -0500
  ...ER>'73 Blue - Many Windows ER>:: OH QUIT WHINING. To all the rust belters out there I have seen paradise and it is AZ...
• Greetings from a new listmember
  Historical mailing list - Julianna Thoennes
  Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:34:50 -0700
  ...I want screens for the side windows, does anyone know where I can get a pair? An Apple Green 1976 Automatic VW Bay Window...
• Clocks
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 22 Feb 95 15:24:21 gmt
  A while ago there was a thread on the clock that fits in the right hand hole of a Bay window dash. By all...
• Re: Windshield
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:37:22 -0500
  ...ve put in side windows...is it MUCH harder or just bigger? Can anyone recommend a shop in the Bay Area? Jeff / 87 Syncro...
• Re: Gerry
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 17 Dec 2017 17:30:53 -0500
  ...it had a Bay window with canoe, full outdoor scene and nice for me to be able to touch. All curtesy of fellow bus...
• Re: How to tighten vent wing
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 8 Aug 2014 15:38:40 +0000
  ...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: List Member Count
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:45:03 -0500
  ...I'm looking for a Bay Window Type 2 or a Vanagon. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com www.stir-plate.com www.towercooler...
• New VW Bus Book
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:17:52 -0400
  ...One couple who are retired drive a beautifully restored 1974 Bay Window Bus. Follow these sightseers across Canada and discover the intimate story hidden...
• Re: Friday locking gas cap for many vehicles FS
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sat, 22 May 2010 04:10:57 -0500
  ...I believe I had one just like it for my 79 Bay window even though it didn't look factory. it might actually fit...
• Re: 84 westy - black side levors - rain problem?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:31:31 EDT
  ...writes: > Not sure what you call it but behind back side window I have black plastic > grill. When it rains and I remove engine...
• Re: Thermostat and other things???
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 6 Dec 94 17:45:29 PST
  ...I just bought the Bay Window/Breadloaf/ >>68-79 Bus Bentley book and I'll look-up thermostats tonight. >> >> Thermostats are popularly left off...
• Re: What about Custom Handbook by Meredith?
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Wed, 01 Mar 95 08:42:37 CST
  ...i do like to see all the old splits and breadloafs ("Bay Windows" to the brits). can't see how they figure a vanagon...
• Re: '52 Barndoor update
  Historical mailing list - Bob
  Wed, 15 Nov 1995 09:14:21 -0500
  ...I couldn't believe my eyes! > There if front of me was a '56 panel van, five other split window buses, >three bay windows...
• Re: Strangest thing you've found in a new bus?
  Historical mailing list - Donna Skarloken
  Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:19:40 -0800
  ...was done and the engine quit in the east bay area of San Francisco Bay. It actually took my mother several days of cleaning...
• Friday: "Late Style" VW 1.8 turbo engine running CCW (backwards)
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:12:03 -0700
  ...and Audi A4 2wd and Quattro in Vanagons (soon to be bay-window bus too!). As I mentioned in another thread, I have been...
• Re: Slow cranking with fully charged battery
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:58:11 -0400
  ...Does > the Vanagon respond well to the Bay Window starter relay fix, or is it a > better bet to change the starter? Has anyone...
• Bluestar Project
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:45:16 -0400
  ...In the past, I have owned a split window Dormobile, 2 bays and 2 Vanagons, one of which was a 1983 Westy 1.9...
• Fw: [T2] Vanagon Bentley manual to trade
  Historical mailing list - bill harris
  Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:19:35 -0700
  ...I have a Bentley manual for the Vanagon air and water-cooled models that I would like to trade for a bay window bus...
• Re: Call for .. Actual Vehicle Weight info
  Historical mailing list - Anonymous Digest
  Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:12:41 -0700
  ...why 2wd vanagons perform worse in the >snow/offroad than the bay window buses. buses supposedly have a rear >weight bias. Well, I have...
• Re: Rubber Tramps
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:14:22 -0400
  ...so he jumps into his yellow Bay Window bus and boogies out of the frame. I'll just bet he drives a faster vehicle...
• Re: VW camping season started?
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Mon, 4 Mar 2019 16:13:12 -0400
  ...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: VW camping season started?
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Mon, 4 Mar 2019 16:13:52 -0400
  ...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: old bus to vanagon questions
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Thu, 3 May 2018 21:25:03 -0400
  ...would the oil plug from a bay window or splitty be the same as the one I use in my 1.9? I found...
• Re: Vanagon vs Element..from digest mode..
  Historical mailing list - B Feddish
  Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:44:01 -0400
  ...She is a former multiple Westie owner, she had a couple the last being a nice bay window. She is a widely traveled and...
• Re: Rust Spots/Touch up Paint
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Tue, 7 May 2002 08:33:16 -0400
  ...Anybody know anybody good for the body on Vanagons in the Bay area? -eric ---------------------- '85 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper (Moby) San Francisco, CA
• Re: wolesburg van on eBay
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:03:56 -0800
  Well, maybe not! One of the invoices is for a tune-up on a 1971 Bay Window Type II. :) On 3/27/07, Jake...
• Re: Hanover Pop Top
  Historical mailing list - Brendan Slevin
  Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:33:03 -0700
  I was in Maupin, Oregon at a VW meet on father's day weekend and saw a bay window bus converted to a pop...
• Re: Air-cooled heat?
  Historical mailing list - G.M.Bulley
  Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:19:57 -0400
  ...Are these the same ones that the bay-window buses use? Thanks, Ed Maikranz Abilene, TX 81 Westy 71 Superbeetle __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y...
• Re: Westy sold, sanity returns
  Historical mailing list - B Feddish
  Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:56:29 -0500
  ...Love and good fortune to you all. > > Jim C > Mexico > 71 Bay Window (The Bing) > 73 Morgan 33 sloop (Bliss) > 87 Morgan 44 sloop...
• Camping in cold & battery
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:06:10 -0800
  ...One morning, in order to start melting the frost off the windows, I started her up, and let her idle for 30 minutes or...
• Traveling Tool Kit?
  Historical mailing list - Tyler Hardison
  Sat, 4 Jul 2015 11:59:49 -0700
  ...With extra 10mm versions of each. :-) * Fuses (duh) * A spool of 12 gauge wire. (This from my days of driving older Bay windows) * A...
• Re: [T1] A journey of sight and sound, inside the rear hubs...
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 6 Mar 96 19:43 CST
  ...t have firewalls, Clara? The engines are in the cargo bay? The split-window Type II must be a primitive beast indeed!)(Any seal...
• Re: Spare tire mounted on vanagon nose?
  Historical mailing list - BRENT CHRISTENSEN
  Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:54:59 -0800
  ...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: Engine conversions and such...
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Fri, 6 Jul 2001 14:13:51 -0700
  ...Wed, 27 Jun 2001 23:16:01 -0500 > >(x) >Right !! >I wasn't even getting close to Split Windows, or Baywindows, which are >very...
• Re: A little bit of Red....
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:51:39 -0500
  ...But if you're painting the roof, it's a different story, and a vanagon *IS* a somewhat bigger than a baywindow. Happy Trails...
• Re: Nitrogen and tires
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:08:53 +0000
  ...Yes, pure laziness on my part, as every glass shop in the area was tripping over German made windshields for Bay window buses. I...
• Re: Where'd dey all come from today? Bazillion vanagons around Mt Hood..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 8 Aug 2009 14:15:12 -0700
  ...About half a bazillion Bay Windows, too... Don Hanson On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:05 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote...