as the owner of a sweet 86 sunroof GL, I say BRAVO...
-s

>From: JordanVw@AOL.COM
>Reply-To: JordanVw@AOL.COM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Building a westy/DESTROYING A RARE SUNROOF VAN
>Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:45:35 EDT
>
>In a message dated 7/11/01 4:05:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>staff@EARTHNOW.ORG writes:
>
>
> > Our GL has a big factory sunroof, and it appears to be 3" smaller on
>each
> > side than the westy opening. We plan on slicing the rear roof section
>off
> > the westy carcass, and welding it into the rear roof section of the GL.
>The
> > neat part is we think we can do this without wasting the headliner of
>the
> > GL, cuz it has this metal roof under where the sunroof slid! We are very
> > excited about being able to possibly save the headliner....
> >
> >
>
>dont do it!! apparently you are not aware that the sunroof vanagons are
>rare..  especially the 86, and '87 sunroof vans. sunroof vans were avail in
>the US from 80-87, but it was a rare option. especially the last two years.
>vw sold hardly any sunroof vans in 86 and 87 - i've ever only seen like
>three
>86 sunroof vans in my life, and never a 87 sunroof...you have one of the
>few
>87 sunroof vans that exist.   87 was the last year the sunroof van was sold
>in the US, and since the sunroof vans were not available with A/C, they
>were
>rare.  if you want to do a poptop retrofit - go with a hardtop van.  not
>only
>will you be destroying one of the few 87 sunroofs that exist, you will have
>a
>lot more work because of the double roof in the sunroof van, as opposed to
>doing the conversion to a hardtop van with the single roof.
>
>what you are doing would be comparable to hacking up the roof on a '67
>deluxe
>microbus 21 window..  ok, a little extreme analogy, but you get the idea.
>if
>you have one of the last sunroof vans sold in the US, why would you want to
>cut it up?
>there are plenty of cheap hardtop vans out there..
>just a thought.
>chris
>'84 wolfsburg sunroof w/ dealer a/c
>ex '84 GL sunroof
>ex '83.5 GL 9 Passenger sunroof (rare in its own right)

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