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Subject:Re: poptop installation (shudder)
From:radish150
Date:Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:47:13 -0700

Sure, I'd love to. How bout a URL? No welding
nessesary huh, are you sure were talking about the
same job? I'm talking about the VW westfalia poptop,
not two cases of aluminum ones!

mark...

JordanVw@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/5/01 10:43:34 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> radish150@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
>
>
>
>> Ed, I did this once on a bus, did a complete
>> conversion. Now it's possible
>> that I did it the hard
>> way, it might have been easier to take the glass
>> out and cut and weld at
>> the pillars but what I
>> did was to section in the new top right above
>> the gutters and fill in the
>> imperfections with
>> bondo. It looked good when I was done, but I kid
>> you not, that was the
>> hardest automotive job I've
>> ever done in my life, and believe me I've done a
>> ton of very hard jobs on
>> cars and trucks, I would
>> NEVER EVER do that again. Personaly if I were
>> you I'd just install the
>> kitchen gear (not too bad
>
>  obviously you did it the hard way!!   take a look
> at Karl Bloss's
> website..we did the whole thing in a weekend.  no
> welding necessary
> chris