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Subject:Re: Passenger van to westy pop top conversion?
From:Tony Polson
Date:Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:06:43 -0000

Vanagon Man wrote:
>
> I can tell you one thing.  It aint easy.   I am quite an
experience
> mechanic, and i was recently going to do this
conversion.........I got so
> far as to cut the roof off the donor van........then i
realized that however
> it got mounted would be of questionable integrity.  I
would like to see the
> finished product in person before i did it...i think even
then i would be
> leery.

Hi Adam,

I looked at the site Alistair suggested ... and you're
right.
It ain't easy, not by any stretch of the imagination.

:-(

I have a quote from a Vanagon specialist for doing the work
... he is well aware of the problems ... what I thought was
a very expensive quote suddenly seems very reasonable
indeed!

Thanks for your help.

Tony