Along those lines, I was looking a VW Trends magazine the other day and saw
an ad for a company that makes custom roll-back canvas tops for just about
anything...Would it be possible, feasible, or just plain stupid to cut a
giant hole in your top, then try to attach a custom-made rollback vinyl top?
  Would it be too noisy or not stay on or leak or what?  Just curious if
anybody's ever heard of anyone trying it.

Joe T.
Denver, CO
'85 GL 'bertha'
'66 Westy

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From: JordanVw@AOL.COM
Reply-To: JordanVw@AOL.COM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Sunroof vanagons and SA grill
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:24:47 EST

In a message dated 4/4/02 3:23:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
herbert_j@ndustrl.com writes:

 > Otherwise i may attempt to section and weld the whole roof
 > off of a junk yard sunroof Vanagon onto my Vanagon (my wife
 > may commit me for doing this)
 >
 > I was looking at the South African VW web site yesterday and
 > saw their "Bus". Is there anyway to get the dual round
 > headlight grill that they use on their Vanagons and would
 >

i'd have to agree w/ your wife.. :<)    the sunroof vanagon has a whole
different roof section, its actually a double roof..unlike regular hardtop
vanagons with a single roof, the sunroof vanagons have 2 layers of
sheetmetal, inwhich the sunroof tracks/cables/etc reside, and into which the
roof slides back in..    plus all the drains for the roof that go down into
the B and D pillars..    not worth the hassle IMO (tho was going to do this
w/ my ex-'67 deluxe microbus, its a ragtop sunroof tho)

as far as the SA Quad headlight grille etc, many listvendors are importing
them.  ive got the setup on my 84 sunroof van. all you need is a set of
'80-'84 headlight buckets to swap your square headlights out with (i have a
set of round headlight buckets if you need them)
chris
'84 wolfy sunroof
SUNBUS

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