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• Re: Westy sold, sanity returns
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:12:05 -0600
  ...Love and good fortune to you all. >> >> Jim C >> Mexico >> 71 Bay Window (The Bing) >> 73 Morgan 33 sloop (Bliss) >> 87 Morgan 44 sloop...
• Re: Westy sold, sanity returns
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:53:59 -0600
  ...Love and good fortune to you all. > > > > Jim C > > Mexico > > 71 Bay Window (The Bing) > > 73 Morgan 33 sloop (Bliss) > > 87 Morgan 44 sloop...
• Re: Friday: Peace =?UTF-8?B?c2lnbnPigJV0aGUgb2xkIHdheXMgbGl2ZSBv?= =?UTF-8?B?bg==?=
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Fri, 1 May 2015 18:09:50 -0700
  ...However, tf the other person is driving a bay window or splittie I wait for them to initiate the greet. One must respect those...
• Re: 70's automatic Vanagons?
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:37:28 -0400
  (Woohoo, a Baywindow issue. I can handle these!!!) Hi Steven, The Baywindow Automatic was 3-speed, not 2-speed. (It was Beetles that had...
• Re: 15" or 16" Wheels?
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 17 Apr 2017 12:28:46 -0400
  ...If my tires were not so new and if I didn’t love my old bay window style hub caps I’d go 16...
• Re: GEX Rebuilt Engines
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Tue, 17 Nov 1998 21:27:40 -0600
  ...the vanagon air-cooleds, were >they >longer lived than the older bay windows? >mark The '72 up bus (and vanagon, they're all VERY...
• Re: Brought home a '90 Carat yesterday...
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:51:52 -0600
  ...The bays and splits have a fairly good following. I've bought running Air Cooled Vanagons for as little as $250.00 several Westies...
• Hippie Vans?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 9 Apr 2015 06:33:47 -0700
  ...have seen a split window VW bus on the road for a few years now, and very few bay windows..... There are probably millions...
• Re: aerodynamics
  Historical mailing list - Ian Hallett
  Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:49:01 +1000 (EST)
  ...In relation to aerodynamics, I heard a story recently about a bloke from Sydney taking his turbocharged bay window bus to Australia's Northern...
• Looking at a 84..Advice Needed
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:42:48 -0500
  ...ve owned.....we still have the EuroVan...we just toasted a bay window...and I've had tons of splitties back in the 70s...
• Re: OIL Grade ?
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
  Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:11:43 -0700
  ...Works good for me, and keeps the Vanagon Lifter Syndrome a bay. John Rodgers 88 G:L Driver Pierre Monette-Dorais wrote: > Hello, > > I...
• Re: Odd AC contraption
  Historical mailing list - Steve Arbaugh
  Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:09:26 -0700
  ...The last thing, which is definitely a bay window thing, was the condenser was mounted under the floor behind the front axle. There were...
• Re: Bugs out, and other annoyances
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:57:00 -0500
  ...Bugs out, and other annoyances >I just returned from a trip to Maryland's Lower Bay, but the bugs almost >ruined the experience. Dozens...
• Re: Upholstery Questions
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:38:56 -0400
  ...wanted to do the brown VW "Mexico Plaid" from the late Bay > Windows, > but that stuff is some kind of expensive through GoWesty and...
• tools needed to: (?) fix the rust, or find a new body?
  Historical mailing list - chris
  Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:42:51 -0700
  ...I got a quote last night for fixing these windows, at between $300-$400 each, at least for the really bad one and the...
• Vanspotting in Van City (as they call it) and on Vancouver Island
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:28:49 -0700
  ...in Victoria; slammed cream microbus panel with safari windows in Parkesville; several bay high-tops and one Vanagon high-top; a yard in Chemainus...
• Re: Stand or Bench for engine?
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:04:29 -0600
  ...When I work on my > aircooled 1600DP from the 71 bay window I put it on an engine stand I > got from aircooled.net...
• Re: Curious about my jealousy window;
  Historical mailing list - David Bjorkman
  Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:12:46 -0500
  ...spend fixing window screens in the Westy.  I must admit though, the jalousie windows in my ol' splitties and bay bus were kind...
• Re: Pop Top Canvas And Little Blocks of Wood
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:46:43 +0000
  I *think* VW may have switched to the aluminum strips on very late Bays. My '75 Westy and '77 Westy both had the staples...
• Re: Another C4C vanagon, this time at a VW dealer in Catonsville, MD
  Historical mailing list - chris and/or ruth
  Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:45:14 -0700
  ...Air conditioning WORKS.� Cruise, Windows, locks, all curtains and screens! Top canvas and screen perfect. I even have the cover for the rear windshield...
• Re: VW camping season started?
  Historical mailing list - Spencer Allen
  Mon, 4 Mar 2019 14:53:08 +0000
  ...Today there were a 9 VW vans >> camped, all spread around in different spaces, seemingly all unrelated. >> >> 6 Vanagons >> 1 Bay window >> 1 Split...
• Leaky gas tank-Part 4
  Historical mailing list - Ron Hill
  Sat, 9 Dec 2000 17:51:46 -0500
  ...I saw a green Bay Window Westy in Macon today.....is it anybody on the list??? [text/html]
• Re: Van reactions
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Callaghan Jr.
  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 07:18:46 -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...
• Re: Misc. Vanagon Ramblings & Steering Coupler
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:42:01 +0000
  ...I tell her the > splitty folks say the same about the Bay window buses. Two > blocks from the house, her first comment, "It sure...
• Re: Brake Fade-wheel cylinder pull back!
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:46:30 -0700
  ...Vanagon rear brakes are really the same set up form the Bay Window > busses. The major differences are the lower shoe rests are fixed...
• Back from vacation
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 7 Jun 95 11:22:30 PDT
  ...There were plenty of bay window and Vanagons in the parking lots. Sadly, the only split window vintage bus I saw was welded to...
• Re: Strange Bus Sighting
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 2 Jul 1996 11:08:35 -0400
  ...sound like very much what you describe, it looks like a bay window era bus except that the roof has been somewhat squared off...
• Custom Interior Panels
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:01:19 EST
  ...They are interested in manufacturing panels similar to the ones they make for bugs, splits & bay window vans. Pricing would be similar to the...
• Internal 115V power
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:19:42 -0600
  ...up have to string an extension cord, leave a door or window cacked open for the cord access, etc. I'm thinking of installing...
• Re: 93 Microbus arrives: Anyone have a South African ETKA?
  Historical mailing list - Zolly
  Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:48:31 -0800
  ...cover panel on right > -cargo-bay side windows extend about 30mm lower > -no "windowsill" below cargo-bay side windows, giving much more > modern look...
• fresh air intake(s)
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL H
  Fri, 8 Nov 2013 08:07:52 -0800
  ...another piece went in the engine bay around the air box snorkel at the side wall. so, if you want to do your part...
• Re: Vanagon envy?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:45:21 -0500
  ...seemed to suddenly happen, first with the splitties then with the bay > window vans, that they just dropped off the streets. We still have...
• Re: Window Air Conditioning
  Historical mailing list - Michael Rule
  Sun, 8 Aug 2004 16:08:56 -0700
  ...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: Busses in the Movies
  Historical mailing list - MF
  Fri, 9 Feb 2001 19:48:28 -0500
  ...It is a bay window if I remember right, but I could be > wrong. > > Also, there is a splitty used in Back to The...
• Re: junkyard tales
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Mon, 18 Oct 2004 06:42:18 -0600
  ...it not? > I have seen a 1980 year-model 2.0L bay window van (from Germany) and a > 1993 year-model T3 (also from...
• Re: off road in a Vanagon Was Tries
  Historical mailing list - Tobin Copley
  Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:50:36 -0700
  ...off pavement) >with a 2WD Vanagon, and comparisons to the older bay window vans) I have >a friend who has owned several 4-WD...
• Bus pays off at drive-in movie!
  Historical mailing list - Mike White
  Wed, 8 May 1996 11:00:34 MST
  ...As the show was starting I noticed a baywindow drive in and park a little ways off. During the intermission the owner came over...
• Re: 250 ft-lb torque wrench?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:26:17 -0600
  ...Living and Working in the SF Bay Area > Automobiles: '83 VW Westy (watercooled); '77 VW Bay Window > Other Info: http://communitybuilders.info/~craigoda/ > > ________________________________________________________________ Sign...
• Re: Instrument cluster speedometer needle break. #%@#%@#$%@!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Gordon
  Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:58:55 -0500
  ...from gerry.vanagon.com ([66.95.48.130]) by bay0-mc9-f7.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 28...
• Re: Pop Top Canvas And Little Blocks of Wood
  Historical mailing list - Dug Smith
  Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:06:10 -0700
  ...Anyway, this is my first > Vanagon canvas replacement, have done 2 Bays ( A big WOOHOO for no %$#& > staples and plastic strips) . The old canvas...
• Fwd: (Roof racks)
  Historical mailing list - Tom Stone
  Sun, 26 Mar 2000 07:24:51 EST
  ...the full length of my van. >> A rack made for a bay window bus can also be adapted to fit a Vanagon. Need to...
• Re: ever seen such a site? akciddento
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:58:49 -0400
  ...140mph '65 Split > Screen Samba or the monster Danbury pop-top bay window in the tech > articles. see workshop mayhem and our buses in...
• turned 200,000 on the odometer!
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Alfonso
  Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:42:24 -0700
  ...I might not know if the window is up or down. It is of no consequence." JP Sartre, kinda
• Busses by the Trail
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:06:09 -0400
  ...Who?Any VW Transporter (splitties, bay windows, Vanagons, Eurovans, even VW sedans and wannabussers) owners looking for an excuse to go camping Where?Blue...
• Subject: Update: Installing 3rd se Update: Installing 3rd seatbelt/lapbelt in Westy
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:48:59 -0600
  ...I didn't get an answer to my question if someone has installed the front belts from a bay window westy ('72) in a...
• Census
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:20:17 -0700
  ...lots of 60's bugs, a few splitties, a bay window, a 59 ghia, 70 bug, 71 ghia. current cars: 84 vanagon, 70 ford...
• [F] Westy shown on news in snow
  Historical mailing list - (Jeff P. Schneiter)
  Thu, 5 Jan 1995 15:22:35 -0800
  ...They show all the snow hitting the hiways to the Sierras, and lo and behold a bay window Westy ('73-'79) goes flying across...
• Re: Comments on Splittie (brake circuits)
  Historical mailing list - Filcoff, David M.
  Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:45:59 -0500
  ...I don't know if it is underpowered, I personally would not want much power in a split window, something tells me they were...
• Big day at the parts yard
  Historical mailing list - Warren Lail
  Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:47:31 -0600
  ...with all of his bay window stuff. All in all, it was a great day to be a VW enthusiast. Now some news for...
• Re: Propane tank
  Historical mailing list - Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow
  Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:26:06 -0700
  ...PM, Ryan Perry <rjdperry@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > So I bought a bay window propane tank cheap and refurbished to new. All > works as far...
• Re: What the heck is this?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:18:08 -0700
  ...I was vaguely surprised to learn that my bay window had a charcoal canister, and figured it was some kludge. > Although of > course *every...
• New Westfalia Vanagon Covers FS! (and more)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:01:05 EDT
  ...These three knobs are in the shapes of a split window bug, a split screen bus, and a bay window bus (sorry no Vanagons...
• Re: Where have all the Vanagons gone?
  Historical mailing list - Dave L
  Fri, 23 Jun 2000 17:35:30 -0400
  ...While being familiar with the sight of the split-window and bay-window buses for as long as I can remember, I had not...
• Re: battery holder thing
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Tue, 7 Aug 2018 15:37:58 -0400
  ...Were similar holders used on bay > windows and buses? I have a part that was given to me along with other > older bus parts...
• Re: "Favorite Vanagon Features"
  Historical mailing list - Aleksandr Milewski
  Fri, 13 May 2005 10:51:44 -0700
  Bruce Nadig wrote: > My favorite design feature, shared with the split windshield and bay window > busses, is the fact that you are sitting directly...
• Re: Looking for support...
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 6 Jul 1996 20:58:01 -0500
  ...windows there. So what do the upper louvers do in the barndoors that have them? Are they snorkeled to the engine compartment like bays...
• Re: Body Rubber
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:12:22 -0500
  ...Well not to differ but I have had great luck with bay window rubber from WCM and have always received excellent service and support...
• [Fwd: ]Trip Report
  Historical mailing list - Bob Calkins
  Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:27:38 -0700
  ...Headed down the Oregon Coast, saw over 150 Westys, mostly Vanagons, bout 15 Bay windows and 2 Splits ( at a Rasta Festival in Garberville...
• Re: PSA Frog Tape & Painting A Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 9 Oct 2011 09:19:08 -0500
  ...I did > do some of this backwards as well, as I also have new window seals, but I > ended up masking off the windows...
• Re: converting gl to be more camp-able (FREE TOP)
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn Ratjen
  Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:50:35 -0700
  ...You basically take a piece of 1/2 inch plywood to make the bottom and attach it to the frame above the windows. The...