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• Re: Fully restored 1990 Westy Value
  Historical mailing list - Pat Spragge
  Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:43:58 -0700
  Looks like it has been repainted? Missing rear window washer filler cover. Sent from my iPad > On Oct 19, 2017, at 5:43 PM...
• Re: Wood Stove Westy
  Historical mailing list - Katherine J. Maas
  Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:47:33 -0800
  ...Exhaust went out through the sliding > window just behind the driver, above the sink. > > The guy said he had to stoke it a couple...
• RE: DC area split window bus--free! (long)
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 14 Apr 1996 18:24:18 -0400
  ...6 pop-out windows UN 2213 421781 1308189: Station Wagon (eight or nine seater, with the full width front seat), left hand drive, Blue...
• first road trip
  Historical mailing list - Eric Henning
  Thu, 2 Jul 1998 21:31:05 -0400
  ...Hung the bikes off the rear using an inexpensive back rack I bought at a yard sale for 5 bucks, worked great but I...
• salvage yard Christmas items...
  Historical mailing list - dave bowers
  Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:49:43 -0800
  ...I've also scored some pricey little parts, for free! I've waited in line with a rear sliding window latch, when I made...
• Re: CV joint 'indicators'?
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:10:00 -0500
  ...Get a helper to > > > listen out the PS window to compare notes. (which side is it coming > > > from?) > > > > > > CV sounds should be related to...
• another story: Africa by bus
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Sun, 05 Feb 95 22:19:47 CST
  ...I also added removable insect screens to all opening windows, including the front ones. Also, to allow opening of the rear and side doors...
• Re: Parts available for sale
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:55:36 -0700
  ...GL? I'm still trying to locate one for the passenger side. The ball > inside the socket has crumbled and the visor falls partially...
• Re: Stretch Westy Google "Street View" voyeurism
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Sat, 2 Jun 2007 21:02:30 -0400
  ...http://www.busesofthecorn.com/googlestreets/Picture1.jpg This zoomed in rear/side view tells me it's a 68-70 baywindow. (Wide-5 rims...
• Re: Used Van Need help
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Tue, 1 Jul 2003 07:07:18 -0400
  ...Plate bulb out >> >>Rear wheel cylinder and brake shoes need replacing >> >>Right passenger side window motor not working >> >>Tail pipe rusted out 8� piece...
• Re: Doing another rear aluminum bumper
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Wed, 3 Aug 2022 09:49:22 -0400
  Bumper dreams, Not practical but I always loved the way the early Bay window bumpers curved around and became a step to get into...
• Re: Dead Bus Report
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 3 Mar 1997 18:30:53 +0000
  ...Solid front and rear bumpers, not rusted and rear is only slightly bent compared to most, again for reasonable offer. Anyway, after all I...
• Re: Lockable Cover for the Westy Luggage Rack
  Historical mailing list - Jason M. Yasment
  Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:10:54 -0400
  ...I expect that it will be hinged in > the front and accessible from inside the van with the poptop up and the > window open...
• parting out 85' Westy in Denver, CO...
  Historical mailing list - Scott Maurer
  Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:49:54 -0700
  ...the cheesy purple window tint. Of course I let out the traditional "What the f..." and jumped out the open side door. I must...
• Re: Headlamp upgrades to brighter lights - night vision
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:46:33 -0500
  ...about 8" worth, of the same >stuff on the windows. you have to do it in two pieces that match >up behind the rearview...
• Re: Power window switch relocation
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Tue, 29 Aug 2017 23:17:20 +0200
  ...However, I took out >> the two sort of W-shaped actuators and getting those back in so that they >> are not sideways is causing...
• It's always three! (Be prepared)
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:34:31 -0800
  ...side window fell into the door. Right then, I thought: 'it always happens in threes'. So true. After repairing it, my RR rear tire...
• Re: "Rrrr, rrrrr, rrrr..skritch skritch...rrr rrr " (speedo noise?)
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:17:04 -0600
  ...When I had the two speedos on the bench side by >>> side...I could detect no difference in the configuration of the >>> female (on...
• Re: new list member, Syncro info?
  Historical mailing list - davidson
  Sat, 17 Oct 1998 10:19:16 -0700
  ...I mounted the 2nd spare upright, securely over the rear window wash fluid reservoir with an eye bolt and a hook. I had a...
• Re: My new Interior lighting, awning, and shower stall
  Historical mailing list - Alain Pierre Hovasse
  Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:48:40 -0400
  ...the old > incadescent lamp in the rear above the bed on the passenger side parallel to > the window. Therefore it is out of the...
• Re: Outhouse fan
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:26:08 -0700
  ...The only remaining thing that rattles here is where the thin sidewall joins the trim under the windows. It is held in place in...
• Re: Improving the "Package" with motors and Aero..
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:15:00 -0700
  ...nice 2,800 in top gear ....and QUIETLY too ! ....non-flush side windows on the vanagon - BIG penalty, in noise and aero. This box...
• Re: Vanagonginity lost...
  Historical mailing list - Peter DiFalco
  Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:16:40 -0700
  ...does > open up side vents (near doors, 1/2 way down the dash)... still heat coming > out of either the window or floor vents...
• Leaving the forum, sold my 88 Wolfsburg
  Historical mailing list - Robert M. Stewart - my vanagon
  Tue, 30 Jul 2013 01:57:30 -0400
  ...I had restored it but had rust rot in the footstep drivers side, electrical gremlins in the head lights and power windows/ locks, and...
• VWs and Drive-ins
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Tue, 09 Apr 1996 11:23:45 -0400
  ...of the front seat while looking at the move thru the rear window. = .... and yes it IS possible to make love in the back...
• Re: Pop Top Canvas And Little Blocks of Wood
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:44:40 -0700
  ...3 window. But it turned out so >> well I'm in no rush to replace it. The added canvas wraps around the >> sides a...
• Re: sliding door... please help
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Mon, 5 Dec 2016 05:00:47 +0000
  ...just push the > rear shut.. >  I used a drawer handle and screwed it onto the door just below the window > > On Dec 4, 2016...
• Re: Instant horsepower (Pinwheel)
  Historical mailing list - t
  Sun, 7 May 2000 23:05:15 -0700
  ...I love driving my van, love looking in the back through the rear view mirror and seeing what looks to me to be a...
• Re: List energy needed
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:45:22 -0700
  ...create a welcome home item for my van, Rear light hinge? Worlds best window crank? Rear reflector light protector? > >> > >> Ideas for best center rug...
• Re: semi-OT: questions about carrying a canoe
  Historical mailing list - Gabriel Hourtouat
  Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:13:32 -0400
  ...pulling to >> each side. On other cars, including tintop vanagons, we pass the straps >> through the car with the windows down and then roll...
• Re:
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:05:48 -0400
  ...curtain set starting to fade - primarily on the side >>> exposed to the window - rear window curtains being the worst, and so I >>> decided to...
• '72 Camper (non-Westy) FS in Milwaukee
  Historical mailing list - William A. McKinley
  20 Oct 96 20:15:15 EDT
  ...All window glass is good, even the windshield. All lamps are good with these exceptions: LR marker broken (where the dent is). Rear tailight...
• blower fan and wipers not working after aux. battery installation
  Historical mailing list - Mike South
  Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:37:37 -0600
  ...On the same trip (don't remember the sequence), the rear window defrost switch (also downstream of the same relay, btw) went back behind...
• whoa! finially, me, and re: my 75 westy and more!
  Historical mailing list - David Raistrick
  Mon, 1 Jul 1996 00:39:03 -0400 (EDT)
  ...drivers side window up anyway, i decided to get more ventallation. ripped the poptop off..:) was pissed, cause couldnt get the rear hinges to...
• Re: GL More camp-able
  Historical mailing list - Richard Lynch
  Tue, 11 Apr 2000 06:34:10 -0700
  ...outside the van. --All back windows tinted. At the moment we still use the standard fold down rear bed, so we have the option...
• Re: Lowering a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Harris
  Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:31:58 -0800
  ...Limo tint black windows from the side windows back including the rear window. (Wa. state law requires at no more than 35% on the...
• Re: Spare gas storage ??
  Historical mailing list - Alan Felder
  Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:34:10 -0500
  this may or may not be of any help - but I have been storing diesel under my rear bench seat in my 82 Westy...
• Re: new owner of 82 diesel Westy, with a few questions
  Historical mailing list - Bill Minor
  Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:23:49 -0500
  ...side door, is messed up and partly missing > ,, > is there a pattern or should i just check > a wrecking yard ? > > my passenger side window...
• Re: Stereo time... front speaker question
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:02:59 +1000
  ...pieces and boxed up an >area on each side so the speakers have a fixed rear volume >to work into and also to keep...
• Re: Back-up lights & now tail lights
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:20:31 -0700
  ...any good on my daily driver as the PO tinted the rear > window. > > Mark in AK > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET...
• Re: VW bus and beetle on Yahoo's 10 deadlies car list. Any thruth? Bay vs. Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:03:43 -0500
  ...With the correct (185R14 dual-ply sidewall) tires, the roll-under described simply does not happen. In 2007 I had my Bay westfakia on...
• Re: closing slider quietly
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:26:29 -0700
  ...the slider rail front end > (talking about the track below rear side window, not upper/lower). > > For the roller to pivot inwards, it hits...
• Re: AC Removal
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:24:37 -0700
  ...In sunnier climes, try a good 3M UV window tint as a means of mitigating heat soak during brief stops Sent from my iPad...
• FW: bucking in parking lots, motor revs up and dowm
  Historical mailing list - dj
  Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:56:49 -0800
  ...install new rear door struts new window cranks re-attach front grill and paint install second battery battery monitor window side screen _____ From: Giasson...
• '87 Westy for Sale in PA, rebuilt engine
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mancuso
  Thu, 16 Apr 1998 07:53:31 -0400
  Hello All, The van is at the dealer in Lancaster PA for the new engine, clutch kit, and water pipe (front to rear--other...
• Re: AC Removal
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:37:46 -0700
  ...AC Removal I bought some matching laminate and a cabinet latch from GW and made a new front panel (where the rear speakers are...
• Re: Lubrication tips one at a time.
  Historical mailing list - Jack Botts
  Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:37:49 -0500
  ...vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > Hi Scott and others, > > great Scott! > > So, I lubed all the things Scott mentioned rear hatch, Emergency Brake, but wear...
• Re: SA van images
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:41:34 -0800
  ...output to the SIDES, where the speakers are, then pipe it to the rearmost body vent there above the windows, which would allow the...
• Re: Anyone else have a sunroof vanagon w/ A/C???
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 12 Nov 2000 04:42:42 EST
  ...84 vanagon Wolfsburg edition Sunroof van (weekender interior, camper side windows w/ screens, rear hatch screen and curtain set all stock) bought the van...
• (f) Recipe for "Bus Roll" (long)
  Historical mailing list
  06 Sep 96 08:13:45 PDT
  ...s crashed onto it's right side. Previous post details exit handle location for a Vanagon rear hatch. - Jeff '80 Westi, '67 Sqbk, '64...
• Re: Friday Topic: My Vanagon Accessories
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:56:52 +1300
  ...MODIFICATIONS AS AT 6-9-2002 GOT=x ITEM ELECTRICS (NONENGINE) x electric windows - Electric-Life x electric locking - remote central, 4 doors - Electric...
• Pop-top transplant report/procedural
  Historical mailing list - Richard Alexander Palmer
  Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:12:13 -0400
  ...We ran a piece of 1" square 14g steel tubing between the front and rear roof braces on each side of the bus. We...
• Pop-top transplant report/procedural
  Historical mailing list - Richard Alexander Palmer
  Mon, 28 Apr 1997 16:30:05 -0400
  ...We ran a piece of 1" square 14g steel tubing between the front and rear roof braces on each side of the bus. We...
• Sunroof Vanagons - was Black door panel anyone?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:08:23 -0700
  ...The 82 is so original .......I have the side window price sticker for it, and salesman's business card that sold it Portland OR...
• Re: Vanagon Alternative...just thinking
  Historical mailing list - Richard Duvernay
  Mon, 16 May 2022 01:08:07 +0000
  ...I agree with this 100% - Why don't they put the battery under the rear bench compartment? It's close enough to the engine...
• Re: clearance : many assorted Vanagon parts
  Historical mailing list - Simon Reinhardt
  Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:01:43 -0600
  ...blocked off in later vans that have ventilation ducts at the rear windows. -Simon On Jul 18, 2004, at 10:42 AM, MC wrote...
• Re: Alternate storage Areas Was: Big empty space just forward of Passenger Side brake light
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Sun, 23 Feb 2020 10:35:50 -0800
  ...No problem with the window. The space is enclosed, not open to the regulator space. It was, in some iteration of VW vehicles, a...
• Re: List energy needed
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:13:56 -0400
  ...create a welcome home item for my >> van, Rear light hinge? Worlds best window crank? Rear reflector light >> protector? >>>> >>>> Ideas for best center rug...
• Re: [Syncro] rocky mountian motorworks show/cup holder
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:00:11 -0700
  ...I saw a clean silver syncro with steyr > puch stickers on the rear windows and a fiamma bike rack. He had a cup > holder...
• wisdom sought on 68? camper
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Chapman
  Fri, 7 Mar 1997 01:48:53 GMT
  ...Rear side windows had opening quarter lights in them. That's all I can think of. If anyone can explain the chassis numbers, or...