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• Re: To table or not to table
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Czerniak
  Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:52:48 -0500
  ...space between the closet and the drivers rear window. Just lift and support while sliding in . I never use the rear table, try as...
• 90 Vanagon Westfalia Atlantic TD description (longish)
  Historical mailing list - Robin Oomkes
  Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:14:41 +0100
  ...Henceforth the vans were called California (simple version, glass windows, no heater) or Atlantic (complete version). The vans were still built at Westfalia but...
• Re: Cats Onboard [was: road hazards]
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Fri, 26 Apr 1996 22:59:23 -0500 (CDT)
  ...That is why I want > to make all windows safe to be left open. When stopped I will crank > the louvered windows open and...
• Bus models
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Tue, 1 Nov 1994 15:30:27 -0800 (PST)
  ...They have a sliding door, but the impression for the two doors. They have bubble tail lights and 3rd brake light, but I'm...
• Re: Westy screw caps
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Wed, 14 May 2003 09:40:08 -0400
  ...or > elsewhere? >> > > Recently, while refinishing some interior pieces, I > needed replacements for those little plastic arrow > clips which hold the panels to the sliding...
• Kombi question again
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 1 Oct 1996 12:51:44 -0700
  ...It is, like the classic Kombi, a panel van with windows. The side windows are unique to the model -- they don't open at...
• Re: Good Bye Grover :(
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:53:06 -0500
  ...May I have first bids on the power side mirrors and sliding window seals? 2010/2/26, Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@gmail.com>: > Well, a...
• Re: pop out on westy
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hannink
  Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:11:03 -0700
  I think that Doug was talking about a slide-out like you would see on an RV, not just a pop-out window. It...
• FS: 74 bus
  Historical mailing list - Chip Shaner
  Sun, 22 Dec 1996 18:32:47 -0600 (CST)
  ...Insulated on floor and behind panels included: -rubber floor mats -sliding window -misc. parts We bought this bus to be our family car, but...
• Re: S.A. rear slider windows and armrests
  Historical mailing list - Yi-Ruey Wei
  Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:51:10 -0500
  ...Hence the steering wheel will be on the right and the sliding door will be on the left, etc. Hey, even our web site...
• Re: Sliding Door stubborn
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:11:52 -0600
  ...westy panels-different fasteners-dam that wesfalia! Tom (except for a window regulator part > that I paid Chris at Jordan VW for many weeks...
• Re: SportsRig Micro Trailer
  Historical mailing list - Kevin
  Sat, 7 Aug 2004 00:16:09 -0400
  ...behind the sliding doorm, sealed the bottom of the engine bay > >for more storage space, even used the driver side sliding windows on the...
• Re: Best Tint?
  Historical mailing list - PB
  Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:44:58 -0700
  ...And what about the > > > 2 > > > sliding side windows? Do tint shops generally know how to work with > > > Westy > > > furniture and windows? > > > > > > I would like...
• Re: Eurovan Westfalia
  Historical mailing list - Ed Stevens
  Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:41:46 -0500
  ...It lacks the Eurovans rear air conditioning system and its large sliding windows. Instead it had dinky (IMHO) RV type windows in the back...
• 1986 Vanagon - parting out
  Historical mailing list - Russell O. Gunter
  Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:33:43 EST
  ...Auto Tranny: $375 (less linkage) Linkage and shifter: $35 Auto Door locking and auto window system: ($150) Rear bumper: $10 Front bumper: $50 Bumper...
• Selling '91 Westy-Salt Lake
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:39:48 -0600
  ...Electronic windows, locks, and alarm system, cruise, AM/FM tape player (2 speakers each door and 2 rear near A/C vent. Both tables...
• Re: curtain slide-hangers
  Historical mailing list - BA
  Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:59:19 -0700
  ...earlier this summer we ran up I95 with the >> drivers side rear sliding window partially open. The wind blast was flapping >> the curtains around...
• Re: hey howdy
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:51:02 -0600
  ...If it hadn't been for the baywindow, >>> you snooty vanagonauts wouldn't enjoy crash-proof bumpers, disk >>> brakes, hydraulic valves or sliding doors...
• Re: Repairing Window Washer Reservoir Tank
  Historical mailing list - Audin Malmin
  Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:11:40 -0700
  ...Maybe also do something fore and aft to keep it from sliding around. The tank weighs a considerable amount when full of fluid, so...
• Re: buying a new gutless wonder
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:41:42 -0600
  ...additonal brake lights and turn signals up higher, around the line of the bottom of the windows. 5. 15-inch wheels, so we could...
• Re: FS: 81L and 85 Kombi(s)
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
  Sun, 13 Sep 1998 12:27:19 -0700
  ...On mine, all the side glass is fixed -- no sliding windows. There is headliner only over the two front seats. There are no rear...
• Re: Fitting 88 slider to 84 van... differences between years?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:46:11 -0700
  ...Very! > I think the windows are slightly different sizes too between old and new style sliding doors. That wouldn't particularly bother me. So...
• Re: closing slider quietly
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Thu, 13 Aug 2020 20:15:39 +0200
  ...rear side window, not upper/lower). For the roller to pivot inwards, it hits the front 90° angle of the sliding track and if...
• Re: Frydaye - New achievement
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:49:45 -0800
  ...and we have to have a separate category for short haul loads that are so large the sliding door can't be closed ..I...
• Re: '72 door problem
  Historical mailing list - Tobin T. Copley
  Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:37:05 -0700 (PDT)
  ...wrote: > as usual, my sliding side door thinks it is not part of the bus and > would like to go its own seperate way...
• Re: Quite desperate for a sunroof vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Thu, 11 Apr 2002 19:31:14 -0500
  Westfalias are great at the Drive-In!!! Pop the roof, put down the bed and watch through the screen window. Make some Jiffy Pop...
• Re: dometic 182b question
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 9 Nov 2005 07:45:39 -0800
  ...The sliding window behind the fridge does a good job venting the fridge heat, no need for the skylight. Alistair '82 westy, diesel converted...
• Re: Seat/Bed Swap
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:18:58 -0700
  ...It has a bench >>> that makes into a true bed, has massive storage under it, came with >>> screened sliding windows, rear hatch jail bars...
• FS: '89 Syncro Adventurewagen, '85 Westy, '84 Dehler highroof campers
  Historical mailing list - Westyman
  Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:26:33 -0800
  ...Full camper interior unlike Westfalia, with gas furnace, shower, top-loader fridge, gray- and fresh-water tanks, insulated windows, huge sliding skylight and front...
• cheap Westie FS Seattle
  Historical mailing list - Paul Gilland
  Sat, 17 May 2003 12:18:22 -0700
  ...the sliding door and above rear passenger wheel well * I've used it as a work truck (daily driving) for my window washing business...
• For Sale: '90 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Don Oldenburg
  Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:02:51 EDT
  ...Power windows/doors locks/mirrors. AC (front and rear outlets). Cruise control. Rear defroster. AM/FM Cassette Stereo (front & rear speakers). Michelins. Complete front...
• Re: sliding door conversion, early-late
  Historical mailing list - Otmar
  Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:09:01 -0700
  ...The windows are different sized? I hadn't noticed. I better measure better. :) It looks to me like the B and C pillars are...
• Re: Opinion on Long Trip w/young driver to Florida from Texas
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:03:03 -0500
  ...Those sliding side windows are great. Change the oil, give it a once over, be confident in it, and send it on it's...
• Re: Rust in the seams
  Historical mailing list - Dylan Spurgin
  Sat, 22 Jun 2002 00:45:35 -0500
  ...I also noticed today that the rivet holes in the sliding door don't have rust around them like all the others. weird. ds...
• Re: Westy break in, only vehicle registration (Canadian) stolen
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:19:48 -0700
  ...ca wrote: > > Last night someone broke into my Westy - forced the sliding window, popped the screen, then unlocked front door. > > They had rifled through...
• Re: Heating system
  Historical mailing list - J. Walker
  Tue, 20 Sep 94 12:04:53 CDT
  ...the sliding gizmos on the bottom edge of the rear of the door are to let fresh air get sucked into the door? or...
• VW Euro, Baarlo, the Netherlands.
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 18 Sep 95 17:28:39 +0200
  ...Also, there was this one of a kind armed '73 transporter, no sliding door, only a tiny entrancedoor in the side to get into...
• Re: Anyone converted RHD to LHD or vice-versa?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:47:48 +1200
  ...Simple enough. >Sliding door will be on the wrong side. No problem. >Headlights dip the wrong way. Easy to replace, cheap too... in fact...
• fun vanagons via ebay & google
  Historical mailing list - dave
  Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:21:50 -0700
  ...http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1779629218 Rear sliding window http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1780035039#DESC...
• Re: '56 progress - 'fridge
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Thu, 12 Jan 95 10:09:33 PST
  ...It has a little sliding extension that makes it more accessible to the third person on the full width seat. The '75 has the...
• Screen Re-Hab
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:42:58 -0500
  I worked on one of my sliding window screens over the weekend. The original screen was loose around the one corner and the frame...
• Re: Nagging Gremlins: Temp gauge, Window washer, stumble , arm rest, Sliding door
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:13:42 -0400
  Jim, I don't know what year/engine you have, but on my '85 1.9, this happens often. In my fiddling with it...
• Re: Fuel Saver ?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:39:01 -0800
  Can't decide if I'm more impressed with the photography or the 'Windows Paint' graphics... If you really want to know if they...
• Re: VW Bus Wanted
  Historical mailing list
  19 May 1994 18:57:43 GMT
  ...Insect-barrier screen on middle sliding windows. Wolfsberg edition snap-on curtains for all windows (blue). (Makes a great camping vehicle.) Almost no rust...
• Re: Finally In the process of painting our 87 Westy Installing new pop top canvas etc
  Historical mailing list - Edward V Barger
  Fri, 18 Sep 2015 11:40:34 -0700
  ...re paint job taking out the windows etc a few questions >> >> 1.Planning on buying all new window seals, pop trop canvas etc from...
• Re: Replacement Westy Screen Pics
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:33:39 -0600
  ...my German suppliers that show different part numbers for the sliding door window from 1985 on. As soon as I can find an early...
• Re: Interesting Vanagon Paint Schemes
  Historical mailing list - Peter T. Owsianowski
  Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:11:31 -0500
  ...great deal on Windows 7 and see how it works the way you want. >> Check >> > out the offers on Windows 7now. < >> http://go.microsoft...
• Re: Driver and Passenger door window screens - 89 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Katherine J. Maas
  Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:14:44 -0700
  ...Driver and Passenger door window screens - 89 Westy > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:54:11 -0400, you wrote: > >> >On Mon, 30 Aug 2004...
• Re: Window Tint Nightmare :(
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 3 Jul 2003 09:47:41 -0500
  ...band around the perimeter of all fixed windows including the moving portion on the sliding windows. Around the handles and locks on the glass...
• Buying House/Garage In DC--Personal Situation
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:07:33 -0500
  ...smashed window, Joel Walker rushed to my aide with a spare wing vent and it turned out I had a spare sliding window from...
• antifreeze carpet
  Historical mailing list - Chris Wyatt
  Thu, 6 Feb 1997 20:40:35 -0900 (AKST)
  I sat down in the sliding doorway of my van one evening and found the seat of my pants damp with antifreeze when I...
• Re: [window strips]
  Historical mailing list - Joe Fortino
  Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:59:55 MDT
  ...I tried using heat, water, soap and pliers, but after sliding it in about 12-14 inches, the friction was too much! any ideas...
• FS: '93 Eurovan MV w/ jumpseats, bed, table $1500 MUST SELL
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:10:05 EDT
  ...it has a perfect interior, capt chairs, sofabed w/ cushion, rear storage cabinet under cushion, sliding side windows, jumpseats, jumpseat trays, flip out side...
• Fw: Saw the weirdest Vanagon for sale today...
  Historical mailing list - Pierre A Lachance
  Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:01:42 -0400
  ...to me it was the same > body as the westie, same roof opening but with the sliding hatch , you had > to turn and turn...
• Re: closing slider quietly
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:26:29 -0700
  ...rear side window, not upper/lower). > > For the roller to pivot inwards, it hits the front 90° angle of the > sliding track and if...
• Re: Wood burning bus
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:51:45 -0800
  ...There was a pipe exhausting from the driver's side sliding >window, with smoke coming out. It became obvious that this was the source...
• Re: Fitting 88 slider to 84 van... differences in years?
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:30:49 -0500
  ...I think the windows are slightly different sizes too between old and new style sliding doors.
• South Africa report
  Historical mailing list - Barbara Sutton/Cris Torlasco
  Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:46:50 -0800
  ...ALL rear lateral windows are sliding. I saw many of the SA Vanagons with a metal assembly that protects the front bumper. Took pictures...
• Re: Need info on making curtains, rods, etc.
  Historical mailing list - patrice b
  Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:00:33 -0700
  ...I have a loop on the top corner of the curtain over the sliding door window so I can undo the upper and lower...
• Re: Westy Interiors (long reply!)
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 13 Jun 1996 09:45:33 +1200
  ...The top is much bigger when open and has windows & vents that make the whole van a lot more light, airy & spacious. The cutout...