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• Re: Westy sold, sanity returns
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:53:01 -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: Adding Arm Rests to an Early Vanagon - 1981
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:01:14 -0500
  ...in the earlier seats and it reminds me of my old bay windows. All good but man the Vanagon seats are a nice upgrade...
• Re: kids hammock in vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Henning, Eric
  Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:11:22 -0400
  ...door opening and mount on the windshield pillar similarly to the bay window cots (haven't decided how to do this yet, weld a...
• Waving (Was: Van reactions)
  Historical mailing list - '80 Westy Pokey
  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 06:54:26 -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: Who Rents Westies in Arizona?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 1 Aug 1996 17:16:49 -0400
  ...Classic Westfalias (Bay window buses from the 70's) Weekly with 1000 miles: $350. Weekly w/unlimited miles: $450. 2. 91 Vanagon GL Westfalias...
• Life comes at you.....fast
  Historical mailing list - Ellen
  Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:21:56 -0700
  ...Saturday (after my daughter's graduation from Nursing School) for Sunset Bay State park for a mini-vacation (well-deserved, I might add). Was...
• Re: These German ATE Pads ever sold by VW Dealerships as OEM? (pics)
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:08:33 -0700
  ...about friction and materials since those pads were developed for the Bay window bus! I would go with the PBR... On Sat, Apr 4...
• Re: Corvair and Porsche 914 Engines (Was: Towing!!!)
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Wed, 16 May 2001 11:39:04 -0600
  ...That details several engine swaps for the bay window bus. There are a ton of engine swap possibilities but the Corvair and 914 engines...
• Re: Seeking advice for fixing many small rust spots
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:21:09 +0000
  ...Again, several Bays I've done had a small amount of rust creeping out from under the window seals, but when I pulled the...
• While driving my Vanagon to the Hillside folk festival... was Re: Modern Japanese Vans with Retro Faux Split / Bay Window Looking Front Facades
  Historical mailing list - Peter Kraiker
  Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:04:48 -0400
  Returning to vanagon content... I do tend to take photos of things :) http://picasaweb.google.com/pkraiker/VWSightings# regards, Peter Kraiker turbowesty@gmail.com...
• Re: Is this bay window auction for real?
  Historical mailing list - Karin Baker & Raymond Paquette
  Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:19:09 -0400
  The photo sure looks more like LA than Canada (or Iowa). Palm trees? Raymond On 10/27/07, Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@ipa.net> wrote...
• Re: Do I Live In Vanagon and Bus Land?
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Fri, 1 Oct 2010 16:52:11 -0700
  ...camper, then across from where I'm parked a very clean Bay Window > > bus, and across from that another Westy, about an '84 w...
• Re: Trying to contact owner of Karmann Gipsy in... Vancouver?
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:56:29 -0700
  ...Had to change/add a bunch of North American lights and such, but I did not have to change the windows in the camping...
• New mexican bus ad in uk mag.
  Historical mailing list - Marcus Grant
  Mon, 27 Feb 1995 16:10:18 +0000 (GMT)
  ...From the gutter line down the whole thing is the normal bay window bus (if rather clean and straight!), but the roof has changed...
• Re: Enging transplants, radiators on ba
  Historical mailing list - King, Robert
  29 Sep 1995 14:56:16 +1000
  ...My brother-in-law and I mounted a radiator on the front of his bay window (rotary conversion). We removed the bumper and cut...
• SYNCRO QUESTION?)
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 6 Sep 1998 13:00:41 EDT
  ...Thanx for any help Chris 87 Syncro 1/2 Camper 75 Westy 71 Westy 55 Single cab Still looking for bay or split window...
• Foot to the floor syndrome, OT a little
  Historical mailing list - Jim Cain
  Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:44:12 -0400
  ...Well, that's OK, for you folks who never spent 20 years driving a "Bay Window" where you had to step on the accelerator...
• Idle problems on 85 westy
  Historical mailing list - SpaceKommander
  Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:40:06 -0500
  ...Saw about 7-9 Vanagons fairly complete and about as many split windows. Saw only one bay window and a 142 Mexican whooping llamas...
• Syncro update - body work
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Sat, 7 Aug 2010 15:53:04 -0700
  ...I also wanted to drop off some window and door seals, mud flaps, etc, for the post painting reinstall. He wanted to get an...
• Re: Westy sold, sanity returns
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:05:02 -0700
  ...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: Van reactions
  Historical mailing list - Paul Borghese
  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:44:10 -0400
  ...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: Internal 115V power
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:00:35 -0800
  ...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: "Favorite Vanagon Features"
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Nadig
  Fri, 13 May 2005 11:57:35 -0500
  My favorite design feature, shared with the split windshield and bay window busses, is the fact that you are sitting directly above the front...
• Re: CB Antennas and stuff
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 9 May 95 14:51:26 EDT
  ...How about one around the bay window? > having one big loop around the inside of the pop-top? if it works for the > old...
• hands-on report...
  Historical mailing list - Grungy
  Tue, 17 May 2005 16:24:45 -0500
  ...Louisiana inspection sticker Power locks dead Power mirrors dead (couldn't check the defogger feature) Passenger power window winder dead Driver window switch wired...
• Re: off road in a Vanagon Was Tries
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Thu, 3 Aug 2000 21:04:10 -0400
  ...off pavement) with a 2WD Vanagon, and comparisons to the older bay window vans) I have a friend who has owned several 4-WD...
• Re: Nitrogen and tires
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:13:33 +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: junkyard tales
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:06:31 +1000
  ...it not? I have seen a 1980 year-model 2.0L bay window van (from Germany) and a 1993 year-model T3 (also from...
• =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_Friday=3A_Peace_signs=E2=80=95the_old_ways_live_on?=
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 2 May 2015 01:11:09 +0000
  ...waveback in reply. > > However, tf the other person is driving a bay window or splittie I wait > for them to initiate the greet. One...
• Re: sunroof van interior baffle and roof deflector
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:58:17 -0500
  ...At least not any worse than having the drivers window open. It just seems to get a bit harder to have a conversation between...
• Re: Can Stationary Wing Windows Be Replaced With Wings That Open??
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:24:48 -0700
  ...You have to take the roll-up window glass to > have enough room to wrangle the wing upright into place. Once you > figure out...
• Re: Mac
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Vickers
  Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:30:16 -0800
  ...You can't run the ETKA or Bentley "eBahn" software on a Mac unless you dual boot windows or run a virtual PC Windows...
• Re: Is a aircooled vanagon ECU different between automatic and manual transmissions?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:54:07 -0600
  ...one, and it seems low > on > power........... > > I know in the Bay window busses they had different ECU's....I figure > this > probably had...
• Re: Muffer options aside from stock
  Historical mailing list - Dave Arthur
  Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:12:35 -0300
  ...The orientation is different > on them, but I have seen some for the later bay windows that look like the > would work. The issue...
• Re: VW Van Screensaver - software suggestions needed
  Historical mailing list - Jim Thompson
  Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:54:54 -0700
  ...You can download separate screen savers for Splitty (Pre 68) Buses, Bay Window (Breadloaf) Buses, Vanagons and Eurovans as well as screen saver with...
• Re: Small kitchen for GL? Ideas please
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:22:49 -0700
  ...any leads. > > Peter Marsh > Vanilla Shake > > > http://www.vanwurks.co.uk/kompact-interior-for-volkswagen-t2-bay-window-from-1-095.00.html#.UUc0z1t4al0
• Copy of: American Quilt and a VW Bus
  Historical mailing list - Turner,Ronald L.
  03 Jan 97 10:23:32 EST
  ...The '50-'55's had no rear hatch, and so the decklid went all the way up to the tiny back window. You could...
• Re: Aux Air Valve becoming available as reman
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:20:30 -0700
  ...In fact if it wasn't for my personal experience wrenching on L-Jet FI on the Bay Window and it's Bentley Book...
• Re: 250 ft-lb torque wrench?
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:54:28 -0700
  ...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: serious vanagon security issues
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Sat, 6 Aug 2005 12:26:50 -0500
  ...My neighbors side window was broken out of his GMC SUV, they stole some stuff, he didn't report it. He just paid the...
• Re: Vanagon look-alike
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:02:12 -0700
  ...actually called VW > Station Wagon in US advertisement until the T2 bay window came out. We > used to just call them 'Kombi'. > > Ford Taunus...
• Re: Front 'badges' / emblems
  Historical mailing list
  19 Sep 94 24:09
  Ken, Up to 67 big curved 12" badge - cool. (won't fit a bay window) 68 - 72 9" badge. 73 - 79 Crummy 7" plastic...
• Re: spare tire mounted on front of watercooled vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Ray Nemo
  Fri, 18 Feb 2000 07:36:52 EST
  ...on the front of our Vanagons, like you can with the bay window '70s vans? I have never seen a vanagon this way... My...
• Re: Westfalia Van in Germany
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:10:46 -0700
  ...did an exchange with a Dutch couple, and drove their old > bay window turtle top van. We took our two younger sons,18 and...
• Re: VW van count Kitsilano
  Historical mailing list - cybor punk
  Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:48:06 -0700
  Must also be a bylaw that no van have a vanagon.com sticker applied to it's rear window, I swear... I've the...
• Re: Canvas won't fit
  Historical mailing list - Pete O
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:04:42 -0400
  I only have my Bay Window to compare it to, but went through the same thing. We had to go back up front, loosening...
• Re: Tire size question
  Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
  Fri, 7 Jan 2005 06:01:38 +0000
  ...this >is for a 84 van or >a 71 bay window as long as it fits the rear fender lip. im not sure on...
• Re: T3 (Vanagon) tires
  Historical mailing list - Peter T. Owsianowski
  Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:37:06 -0400
  ...Vancos are not bad for a Bay Window bus, > either. > > > > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Mike <mbucchino@charter.net> wrote...
• Re: Vanagon high-roof sighting
  Historical mailing list - WERNER SCHIRMER
  Wed, 08 Jan 1997 21:20:40 -0800
  ...There are do-it-yourself books for Bay-windows, Vanagons, an EVs. Unfortunatly I don't have the publishers or titles :( but if someone...
• Re: Gerry
  Historical mailing list - Jason
  Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:54:25 -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: Injector cleaning
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:08:46 +0000
  ...What had been a fairly quick Westy was now as slow as an old Bay window Westy. I pulled the fuel injectors and sent...
• Re: VW on Star Trek
  Historical mailing list - Hotch
  Fri, 08 Nov 1996 12:07:03 -0500
  ...t yet seen this weeks Star Trek Voyager, there's > > a bay window bus used as the "getaway" vehicle in one scene. It's...
• Towed a Eurovan!
  Historical mailing list - Dominick DeGaetano
  Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:56:18 -0700
  ...I have seen a great deal of bay window buses here and I am itching for my next project. I am off now to...
• Re: Corvair and Porsche 914 Engines (Was: Towing!!!)
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Wed, 16 May 2001 13:44:47 -0400
  ...That details several engine swaps for the bay window bus. There are a ton of engine swap possibilities but the Corvair and 914 engines...
• Automatic vs. Standard (Manual)
  Historical mailing list - Andy Stalick
  Thu, 3 Jun 2004 11:15:14 -0500
  ...I had a '76 bay-window camper a number of years ago with a manual transmission, and it was a great vehicle, but driving...
• Re: e-bay Euro
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Thu, 9 Mar 2000 13:38:42 MST
  ...e-bay Euro >Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:49:25 -0500 > >This one showed up on e-Bay a couple of days ago...
• Re: sliding rear window for transporter
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:09:53 +1100
  ...I am however unclear what the point of a rear sliding window on the trucks would be. ventilation, Fair enough but it's never...
• Re: Upholstery Questions
  Historical mailing list - joe trussell
  Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:13:28 +0000
  ...wanted to do the brown VW "Mexico Plaid" from the late Bay >>Windows, >>but that stuff is some kind of expensive through GoWesty and...
• Re: Rear Brake Shoe Design Questions
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sun, 3 May 2009 00:11:58 -0400
  ...Incidentally the rear drums were the same duplex arrangement that carried through the bay window bus, and onto our Vanagons. As a side note...
• Re: Waterfalls on my windsheild
  Historical mailing list - Steve Arbaugh
  Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:04:31 -0700
  ...take a look at the "rain gutter" running along the top of the windows of your vanagons. This little gizmo collects all the water...