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• Re: replacing window glass seals
  Historical mailing list - Michael
  Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:52:00 -0500
  ...Eastern Standard Time, >> brettn777@GMAIL.COM writes: >> *about $200 per window for labor >> *I am liable for replacing the windows if they get broken...
• Re: Is there anyone under 60 on this list????
  Historical mailing list - ANTONY MARSH
  Mon, 1 Jul 2013 12:44:06 -0400
  ...Shortly after that at another > WetWesties event an eighteen year old slip of a girl pulled up in her Bay > Window with the engine...
• Re: Sliding rear window
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:07:30 EST
  The South African Vanagon (Microbus) in production until 2002 had one side rear sliding window on the driver's side. The rear side window...
• Buying a bus?
  Historical mailing list - Jim A
  Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:00:42 -0700
  ...Though specifically aimed for bay window bus purchases, there is much info there that is appropriate for any automotive purchase. To grab yourself a...
• Re: Subject: Re: 16" wheels from other makes?
  Historical mailing list - Rich Barker
  Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:05:32 -0700
  ...T1a - 1950-1955 "Barndoor" Split-Window Bus T1b - 1956-1967 Split-Window Bus T2 - 1968-1979 "Bay Window" Bus T3 - 1980-1992 Vanagon & Transporter...
• Re: What to buy? Many "buying guide" questions
  Historical mailing list - Richard A. Jones
  Fri, 2 Nov 2001 17:07:32 -0700
  ...I definitely recommend Vanagons over the bay windows. Richard A. Jones Boulder, Colorado '81 Vanagon Mr Bus '87 Syncro Westy El Jefe
• Re: Subject: Made in the Shade!
  Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
  Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:57:59 -0600
  ...I replaced (on a bay) the jalouise glass and the two rear side windows. I will pay to have the roll up windows and...
• Re: Tach needed, anyone able to help, and trip report
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sun, 18 Aug 2024 14:19:04 -0400
  ...The largest number in Canada. >> >> We traveled in a group of 4 including 3 vanagons and 1 bay window. The 78 Bay was running...
• Re: Heart vs. Head
  Historical mailing list - Matt Thyer
  Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:07:20 -0800
  ...I grew up with a 1972 Type 2 bay window and I think you can say pretty much the same thing about busses. MT...
• Re: Fitting a jaleosy windiow
  Historical mailing list - Bryan Feddish
  Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:33:06 -0400
  ...I scored a really nice jalousy (sp?) window from a bay and I know these can be modified to fit my 83 Westy, Does...
• Re: snow driving vanagon vs baywindow
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:39:31 -0500
  > I am wondering how well bay window busses drive > in the snow compared to 2wd vanagons. I have found later model ('68-up) Buses...
• Re: Modern Japanese Vans with Retro Faux Split / Bay Window Looking Front Facades
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Tue, 2 Nov 2010 23:21:51 -0700
  ...I recall seeing some modern Japanese vans with retro faux split / bay window >>> looking front facades. I'm assuming these are kits, does anyone...
• Re: Side tent?
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sat, 21 Jul 2012 09:52:32 -0400
  ...VW" side tents which was made for a mid 70's bay window style bus and it works sufficiently well with my '85 Westy...
• Re: Roof Racks
  Historical mailing list - Bob Hufford
  Sat, 3 Jun 1995 07:53:48 -0500 (CDT)
  Will a rack off of a Bay Window Bus fit on a Split? There is a new Bus in town (one of those *great...
• Re: Orcas Island VW Survey
  Historical mailing list - Tom Forhan
  Tue, 07 May 1996 08:57:46 -0400
  Clara said: >The survey results were 3 split window buses, 29 >baywindow buses, and 27 beetles. No Vanagons? Here we are on the Vanagon...
• Re: Mounted Spare Blowout
  Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
  Tue, 29 May 2007 23:32:30 -0700
  I've seen this happen before and every bay window driver should know never to park the front of the van too close to...
• Re: Window Tint Asthetics
  Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
  Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:25:53 -0800
  Lets face it, tinted windows are a mixed bag. Great for privacy, especially during the day. Great for keeping the sun at bay in...
• Re: RIP Click (or was he Clack?)
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:05:40 -0600
  ...Having done this "shortcut" on many occasions on both bay window and my 90 GL, the rolling action of the bay window was much...
• Re: Verify
  Historical mailing list - Karl Ploessl
  Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:02:45 -0500
  ...stanshapiro.com> wrote: > > > I wish to verify my membership 1977 VW bay window camper van > > Stan Shapiro > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Ken Wilford > John 3:16 > www...
• Re: "A Volkswagen expert on your iPhone"
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:44:03 -0700
  ...refer to the three generations of "widely recognized nicknames", the 'Splitties', 'Bay window' and "the unflattering title of 'Wedge'". Wedge?? I don't ever...
• Re: Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jim Morgan
  Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:48:21 EDT
  ...I was always cracking it on the split and bay window. Still did not knock any sense in. Jim Morgan 80 "stink bomb" 74...
• Re: RE- nicknames for generatio
  Historical mailing list - J. Walker
  Thu, 06 Oct 94 10:51:01 CDT
  On Thu, 6 Oct 94 09:55:30 CDT Jerry Huff said: >> In keeping with the "B" theme (Bulli, Bus/Bread-loaf/Bay-Window...
• Mag wheels or no?
  Historical mailing list - Geoff Law
  Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:05:49 +1000
  ...Trouble is they are off a bay window and I've got a Vanagon. Do the two vehicles use the same wheel bolt patterns...
• Westy Insurance
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:43:04 -0800
  ...Puff on E-bay" one of the pictures at the bottom of the page has the original sticker in the window of a 91...
• vanagon tows vanagon(almost)
  Historical mailing list - Matt Sutton
  Fri, 6 Aug 2004 06:52:15 -0400
  ...sealed the bottom of the engine bay for more storage space, even used the driver side sliding windows on the front of the trailer...
• Re: South America & Mexico
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:12:01 -0800
  ...Swaziland > Namibia > Botswana > Zambia > Mozambique > Malawi > Tanzania > Kenya > Uganda in a bay window Westy. (Then they got bored and decided to bicycle SE Asia...
• Re: VW camping season started?
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Sun, 3 Mar 2019 21:08:33 -0400
  ...Today there were a 9 VW vans > camped, all spread around in different spaces, seemingly all unrelated. > > 6 Vanagons > 1 Bay window > 1 Split...
• Re: Toy/Model busses
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 16 Nov 1994 17:50:48 -0800
  ...I've never seen a larger than 1:25 kit, or any model of the bay-window version. Anyone else? I've got a...
• Re: Improvement or desecration?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:22:15 -0600
  ...it? > > What do you think when you see a bay-window or a split-window bus > with a cut > dash to fit that new...
• Re: Z-bed shift to the port bulkhead
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Thu, 16 Jul 2015 07:20:43 -0400
  ...It's kinda like calling a Bay window a Vanagon ,serves > the same purpose but way different from each other. This is a Z...
• Re: Random musings?
  Historical mailing list - Rodney L. Boleyn
  Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:31:07 -0500
  >From: "bill (w.r.) crick" <crick@bnr.ca> > >What the !@#$%^! is a bay window? 1. A 1968-1979 bus. 2. The windshield of a...
• Re: Has anyone ever... (Loaf poptop on vanagon)
  Historical mailing list - M.R. Nimmo
  Fri, 3 Aug 2001 04:37:50 -0700
  >>Has anyone ever tried to put a bay window camper pop top on a Vanagon? I have a vanagon with a leaky sunroof, and...
• Rust Spots/Touch up Paint
  Historical mailing list - Eric Spletzer
  Mon, 6 May 2002 12:33:27 -0700
  ...Anybody know anybody good for the body on Vanagons in the Bay area? -eric ---------------------- '85 Vanagon GL Westfalia Camper (Moby) San Francisco, CA
• Re: What's the best thing you've ever done to your Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Brent Weide
  Mon, 30 May 2011 08:52:37 +0100
  * Stuffing a suby engine in the engine bay and not having to open it except for routine maintenance! * tinting my multivan's windows to...
• Roof-center pop top ?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:33:52 -0700
  Yesterday I saw a Bay Window with a pop-top (both ends rose equally, straight up) that was about the same size as the...
• More capacity questions, fuel tank
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:10:57 -0400
  What is the capacity of my 85 Vanagon fuel tank? Years ago in my bay window I rolled into a gas station on fumes...
• Re: Van Picture
  Historical mailing list - Mills Crosland
  Wed, 2 Sep 2015 04:30:26 +0000
  ...more of the aesthetic DNA of a splitty, or even a bay window model. Still, if all I wanted between my knees and oncoming...
• Re: Motorola MtoROKR/VW Bus Commercial
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:15:39 -0600
  Slightly worn bay window. jimt On 9/25/05 7:40 PM, "Bob Stevens" <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote: > http://www.motorola.com/ > > Anyone seen...
• Re: type?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:40:45 -0800
  Harald wrote: <<On a side note, what's always been a mystery to me is why the bay window bus list calls itself the...
• Re: OT: Where have all the Vanagons gone in the UK & IT?
  Historical mailing list - Paul Clarke
  Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:53:40 +0100
  ...To be honest it is the only one of its kind I have ever seen, however, there are a good few bay window vans...
• Vanagon Jailbars (was Re: Metal railing along rear glass?)
  Historical mailing list - Chris Turner
  Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:40:48 -0500
  ...On the split window buses, they were also in the rearmost side windows too. In '68, the Baywindow bus Deluxes became known as "clippers...
• Re: Empty yards
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:28:51 -0500
  ...Use to pull Split window bus barts in the 80s and 90s. Bays all over the place. Now the last time I was down...
• Re: replacing window glass seals
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:02:38 -0600
  I have nboty had the pleasure of replacing a window and seal myself - but I would think that Glycerin would be an optimum lubricant...
• Re: What can I do with a 1.9? 1.9 in a bay window.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 5 Jul 2021 20:55:05 +0000
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• Re: Bus and Vanagon sightings
  Historical mailing list - Dake Collins
  Sun, 25 May 2014 20:41:30 -0400
  ...Anyone form the list? I am currently in Barefoot Bay due to my mothers passing last Monday. I will be here through most of...
• Re: Weakly Stats ...
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 23 Jun 95 10:38:54 PDT
  ...I see alot of bay window double cabs around Costa Mesa, CA and was just curious. Thanks, Jack stafford@alcor.hac.com '73 Westy...
• Re: Front brakes question
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:01:12 EDT
  ...EDU writes: << does anybody know if the front hub from a Bay window (and rotor) would fit onto a vanagons spindles? >> I'm sure...
• Stretch Westy Google "Street View" voyeurism
  Historical mailing list - Ryan
  Sat, 2 Jun 2007 15:05:06 -0400
  I was checking out this Google Maps "Street View" and stumbled upon what looks like a stretch Bay Window Westy. The "street view" thing...
• Re: sliding door cover plate-baywindows
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Mar 1996 01:29:43 -0500
  In a message dated 96-03-11 00:00:21 EST, you write: >Above the sliding rails for the side door on the baywindows...
• Re: Basic VW camper info needed
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 9 Aug 1997 03:29:37 -0400 (EDT)
  ...Bay window buses (sometimes called bubble windows of breadloafs) were made from 1968 to 1979. 1968 to 1971 had the smaller, less powerful, & simplier...
• Re: VW camper van article
  Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
  Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:19:26 -0700
  ...People decorate bay windows as hippy vans , the mass of the movement was dead by the time Bay Windows were introduced, and at that...
• Where To Buy a Windshield
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:00:59 +0000
  ...I used them before for a Bay window bus, and they asked if I wanted to pick it up from their "warehouse" to save...
• Re: Moab man dies in I-70 crash
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:24:15 -0800
  ...Owsianowski < pnoceanwesty@gmail.com> wrote: > Man, that is horrible. > > Were Vanagons called Campmobiles, too? Thought that was only Bay Windows. > >
• Re: Valve cover questions
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:16:15 -0800
  ...Valve cover questions Hello All, I like to know if the valve covers from say a Bay window would fit a water cooled 1...
• Re: Swaybars-worth it(rear)?
  Historical mailing list - Beckett Cantrell
  Sat, 6 Jan 2001 00:43:24 EST
  ...Even more prevelent on the late model Bay Window Busses equipt with 7/8in sway bars front and rear. Also One Hell Of A...
• LVC WTB 68 van/westy
  Historical mailing list - Chasteen, Jonathan M. MM3 (CVN69)
  Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:00:07 -0400
  ...So if anyone in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico knows where a project grade 68 is (or any bay window but would prefer...
• Junkyard Trip
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 3 Dec 1995 17:26:44 -0800 (PST)
  ...Lots of westies, a bay-window panel (!) but no split windows. Got an early radio for the bus. It's an early 6v/12v...
• re..Trip Report, Maupin/Deschutes River Rendezvous
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:20:00 -0700
  Hey, I forgot about that and I saw a couple of sets of Bay Window Westies over in The Dalles on the weekend...They...
• Re: Interesting discoveries
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:16:49 -0700
  ...the **factory** right rear sliding window on a Vanagon with a CountryHome conversion here in the SanFrancisco BayArea!! In fact, the subject vehicle used...
• PSA Frog Tape & Painting A Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Sun, 9 Oct 2011 13:56:29 +0000
  FYI for you DYI'ers out there, if you are doing any painting that involves masking off windows, DO NOT get the green "Frog...