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• There you go, converted panel vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 6 Jul 2014 15:34:57 -0700
  ...They have one of the better looking hightops but the interior fitment is not so nice. From all thes I have seen, including syncros...
• pop top for sunroof van-- new supplier or junkyard
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Mark Shankland
  Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:34:18 -0700
  ...this is for an '87 hi-top, I like the camper idea better and the occasional wind fright in the hightop is an issue...
• HELP! - Can a Westie pop top be made to fit on a Get-A-Way?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:16:18 -0800
  I have been doing some searching for my inexpensive Vanagon and I have came across a 1984 Vanagon with the GET-A-WAY hightop...
• Re: Aircooled AW Vanagon FS for $160K?!
  Historical mailing list - Harry Hoffman
  Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:25:30 -0400
  Gotta be a misplaced zero! On 10/14/14 9:23 PM, Ben wrote: > "Tallest" price I've ever seen on an aircooled hightop...
• Brakes-
  Historical mailing list - Geneva Saint-Amour
  Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:51:55 -0600
  ...Ideas, suggestions? 1985 Vanagon/Westfalia/Hightop/Bostig
• Re: Hightop in Croatian wreckers yard
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 29 Jul 2017 07:36:05 -0400
  that's a sad lookin doka.. same color as my '85 though.. with that busted out headlight and broken mirror, it doesn't look...
• Re: Fiberine high-roofs: any experience with these?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 1 Dec 2003 07:28:40 -0600
  ...Driver Veronica Fraga wrote: >There *is* a photo of the Vanagon hightop on the Fiberine site, but it's hard to find. I saved...
• Hightop For Sale in Vancouver
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:55:43 -0700
  If anybody's interested, there is a reasonably priced GetAway Van on Vancouver Craig's List. http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/car/710819975.html...
• Re: Eurovan MV????
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 18 Aug 1996 14:18:23 -0500 (EST)
  ...available everywhere else in the world in about 6 different versions starting with the "weekender" all the way to a LWB hightop version. Ric
• Re: Hightop Syncro
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:25:07 -0400
  BEAUTIFUL! Now all I need is to win the lottery. :-) 2008/9/11 Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> > Hey guys, check out this...
• Hightop mileage and wind
  Historical mailing list - Chris Dixon
  Sat, 5 Feb 2005 02:47:01 EST
  My AW topped Westy gets buffetted no worse than my old poptop. Less I think just based on simple experience. The top also puts...
• 1986 Adventurewagen camper for sale
  Historical mailing list - Karl M
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 00:55:08 -0400
  Once again...nice camper, hightop, electric fridge bigger and better than a Westy's, furnace, shower, real wood cabinetry, bigger skylight, more lights, bigger...
• Re: VW Camper dreams
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:46:01 -0700
  --- TC <trclark@SHAW.CA> wrote: > Ok who has done the R&D to find out who makes that hightop/poptop > I would guess this...
• Re: LOOK a hightop roof FS on ebay
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Tue, 22 Apr 2003 03:36:01 EDT
  In a message dated 4/21/03 9:18:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Kjmmensing@AOL.COM writes: << Hey I like that! Is that...
• any Deheler-Profi hightops out there?
  Historical mailing list - phil stanhope
  Mon, 5 Feb 2001 20:12:14 -0800
  Any body out there own one of these? Or maybe a Devon Eurovette High-top? D'Leteren high-top? All these are cool looking...
• Re: '83 Adventurewagen highroof 5spd diesel camper FS cheap...$2 grand
  Historical mailing list - levi hawkins
  Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:21:06 -0700
  ...I have seen this type of hightop before.� Besides having owned a half dozen AW's, I have seen several others up close and...
• Re: air springs ... what exactly do they do.
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sun, 28 May 2006 20:41:15 -0700
  ...I've always been interested in hightops for the vanagon. The adventurewagen is lovely, but difficult to find just a top (with bed, etc...
• Coast mountain high tops
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:16:21 -0700
  ...Anyway, I think the get away van hightop is one of the better if not the best looking North American made night tops Alistair
• Re: Joker vs. others
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 1 Feb 2015 04:47:46 -0500
  ...It has a westy interior but with a SYRO hightop. I'm pretty sure that top must have been added in Germany. Did westfalia...
• Re: LOOK a hightop roof FS on ebay
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:49:03 -0400
  On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Ben T wrote: > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2411365079&category=9889 > > Too bad it's...
• Re: Desperate for a High Top!
  Historical mailing list - Mike Bucchino
  Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:02:02 -0500
  ...Desperate for a High Top! >I spotted an aircooled Vanagon hightop for sale in > Burlington VT in September. It may still be at Better...
• Subaru EE20
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Fri, 20 May 2016 19:21:58 -0300
  ...A pricy path, but when I find the Atlantic Hightop of my dreams - that is not too rotten to be a restoration candidate - just...
• Re: Fuse box and donkey
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:47:42 -0700
  ...But still interesting. > > And pics of my van with friends hightop, pus a donkey. > > Alistair >
• Re: local hightop for sale - interesting pics
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Mon, 5 Sep 2011 15:19:29 -0700
  Apparently that's the look you acquire after spending an extended period of time in close quarters with three other people, while using that...
• Re: [Syncro] Re: Group discount - Vanagon high tops
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:03:53 -0400
  > Huh? You musty be looking at another type of Reimo hightop. The ones that > look like upside down boats are not as roomy. But...
• FS: Sacto. '71 Sundial Camper
  Historical mailing list
  20 Dec 96 05:34:42 PST
  ...Here's what I know: '71 Sundial Camper, thats the one with the fixed fiberglass hightop. 1600 DP, stock setup, lots of new/rebuilt...
• Re: High Tops
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Thu, 2 Nov 2006 17:44:09 -0800
  ...Mark David Marshall wrote: > Jeff, > A hightop Vanagon will not fit in a Sea Container as they are > too tall. > > David Marshall > > Fast Forward...
• Re: � � � Re: aerodynamics, was: 101 MPH Vanagon!
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:19:54 -0600
  ...with spoiler drops the drag coefficient to 0.51. > > The European hightop camper (Dehler profile) takes the drag coefficient to > 0.40 with a...
• FS, Sacto '71 Sundial Camper
  Historical mailing list
  20 Dec 96 10:23:28 PST
  ...Sacramento Area '71 Sundial Camper, thats the one with the fixed fiberglass hightop. 1600 DP, stock setup, lots of new/rebuilt stuff, muffler, carbs...
• Re: the high+pop-top
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:14:56 -0500
  ...Other hightops have less turbulence, because they took a more raked line from the top of the windshield (as these high pop-tops do...
• Re: pictures 60 years meeting in Hannover Germany
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:36:58 -0700
  I should add that "hob" on Wikipedia says (in part): "The top cooking surface on a cooker" but this hightop at: http://www.vwcampercrazy...
• Re: My syncro stuck... (was: Re: Fan switches)
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:23:28 -0800
  At 08:25 AM 1/27/2000 EST, you wrote: > >Do they still have hightops (like the one in the pictures) available for >Vanagons...
• Re: My syncro stuck... (was: Re: Fan switches)
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:52:20 -0800
  At 08:25 AM 1/27/2000 EST, you wrote: > >Do they still have hightops (like the one in the pictures) available for >Vanagons...
• Re: Hightop in Croatian wreckers yard
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:10:03 -0700
  Is the Doka hitch hiking? https://shufti.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/img_2619-1.jpg On 7/28/17, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw...
• Re: Q: All AdventureWagons no a/c?
  Historical mailing list - Jim & Melody
  Sun, 6 Feb 2000 20:18:01 -0700
  ...Evaporator is in the front of the hightop along with a large blower for the air. Works great. Jim 91 Syncro Adventurewagon Alamogordo NM...
• Syncro 16 - what years? links?
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:00:25 -0400
  ...What years was ABS available? Anyone ever see a syncro 16 hightop (what years)? Apart from the obvious: http://www.vanagon.com/syncros/syncro16...
• Re: Aftermarket AC questions--under dash, overhead, underseat?
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Stevens
  Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:02:08 -0400
  ...had for about $35 from any u-pull-it yard, look under or over the rear seats in a hightop conversion van. Dan Stevens.
• Sportsmobile
  Historical mailing list - M.R. Nimmo
  Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:41:26 -0700
  ...Poptops, fixed hightop, or lowtop roofs. Chevy, Ford, or Dodge Chassis. (Betcha the mechanics at those dealerships know where the other half of the...
• Re: Hightop Group Purchase?
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:03:58 -0700
  ...Hightop Group Purchase? >>> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Recently , I've had several requests for hightop roofs for the >>> Vanagon. >>> So... I spoke with my contact at...
• Re: Deheler-Profi hightop in Oregon
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Mon, 9 Apr 2001 16:35:25 EDT
  In a message dated 4/9/01 1:23:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, joel_cort@YAHOO.COM writes: << I saw one of those...
• Re: Passenger van to westy pop top conversion?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:59:48 -0500
  On Wednesday 10 December 2003 07:16 pm, Ben T wrote: > Karl the Westyman is going for the new > hightop too. If you don...
• On the Issue of Drag Coefficient Numbers for the Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:35:01 EST
  ...The European hightop camper (Dehler profile) takes the drag coefficient to 0.40 with a frontal area of 3.61 m2. So highest drag...
• Re: Bluestar FS - Seattle
  Historical mailing list - Peter DiFalco
  Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:01:02 -0700
  ...I have a hard enough time convincing her that I want a project hightop or camper as a second. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010...
• High Top Progress
  Historical mailing list - John Dillon
  Sat, 18 Jul 2015 15:33:44 -0400
  So almost ready to startup the hightop. It's got new brakes, new fuel system, new suspension, apparently the radiator is NLA so Rolf...
• Re: CAD model of vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:30:43 -0500
  ...my van for a while i need a virtual one and fool around > with designing extras, add-ons, dream-hightops, spoilers, extended tails, > :-) > > florian > > >
• Re: '83 Adventurewagen highroof 5spd diesel camper FS cheap...$2 grand
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:27:35 -0700
  ...Note that even the Seller > says "ala Adventurewagen" as in 'similar to an AW'. > > I have seen this type of hightop before. Besides having...
• Re: Desperate for a High Top!
  Historical mailing list - rpc
  Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:00:09 -0800
  ...I'm > ready to import a hightop '82 from Europe. Greg > Potts mentioned : > > > Hi Jamie, > > > > > > Have you asked the guy who bought the sportsmobile...
• Re: technique question-- molds - modify a top??
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:50:31 -0700
  ...this person who > is on the list i believe modified a Type 2 hightop (from the pictures i > believe it to be a safare...
• Additions and corrections to Technical Transmission Question.
  Historical mailing list - Geneva Saint-Amour
  Sun, 17 Apr 2016 16:08:45 +0000
  1985 Westfalia hightop with a manual transmission linked to a zero miles Ford Zetec Bostig conversion. (new engine, transmission rebuilt 32,000 miles ago...
• Re: Mileage ?
  Historical mailing list - Robin Oomkes
  Mon, 3 Jan 2000 01:59:19 +0100
  ...28-25 Motorway, 20-23 city 1985 1.9L (Unleaded Petrol) Hightop Transporter." What else could those figures mean but miles per (imperial) gallon...
• Re: CAD model of vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Wesley Pegden
  Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:15:56 -0500
  ...my van for a while i need a virtual one and fool around > with designing extras, add-ons, dream-hightops, spoilers, extended tails, > :-) > > florian > >
• Dimensionally challenged - How big is that Westy in the window?
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Fri, 31 Jul 2015 23:51:55 -0300
  ...I'm guessing the height of a Westfalia hightop is 100 - 102" (provided it is wearing 14" shoes). Does anyone out there have a...
• Strange AC sighting in MD junkyard
  Historical mailing list - karl
  Sat, 23 Oct 1999 01:37:42 -0400
  ...Seems like it would be great for a Westy! They also had a mid-70's bus with a hightop on it, in fairly...
• Re: Passenger van to westy pop top conversion?
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:16:41 EST
  ...Karl the Westyman is going for the new hightop too. If you don't park in public garages, it is a good option. BenT
• Re: anyone know this camper?
  Historical mailing list - JonR
  Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:45:21 -0400
  ...The most ellegent looking hightop out there >>IMO. >> >>Phil >> >> >> As Calle said it a Dehler-profi Karl Mullendore has one down in Maryland on...
• Re: Deheler-Profi hightop in Oregon
  Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
  Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:01:54 -0700
  ...Deheler-Profi hightop in Oregon > I saw this today: > > http://forums.vwvortex.com/vwbb/Forum33/HTML/000156.html > I was just in a bone...
• Re: Looking for a lurking Continental (Euro) list member
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Sun, 5 Jun 2016 08:21:11 -0400
  ...willing to be my eyes to have a look at a T3 hightop. > > If you exist, I would love to hear from you. > > > Roy
• Re: Three white Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Marius Strom
  Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:31:18 +0000
  ...The first was a Westy, and the second was an AW-type hightop. This rarely seems to work, but: Anybody we know? -- Cya, Robert...
• Re: JFF - re: Save the Adventurewagen Molds! (ultra long)
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:57:14 -0500
  This had crossed my mind but the main issues for me revolve around quality and having a physical presence at the hightop production location...
• Re: 1970 Delux Bus Adventurewagon
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Tue, 9 Feb 2016 04:08:20 -0800
  There’s an Adventurewagen group on yahoo and there’s the hightop mafia group on FB. Jim > On Feb 5, 2016, at 4:14...