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Subject:Re: easy.. Re: Passenger van to westy pop top conversion?
Date:Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:14:40 EST

In a message dated 12/10/03 6:56:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, BenTbtstr8
writes:

> As for the sleeping platform, I can't see how you can fit any kind of
> mattress other than an inflatable saline version as there is almosty ZERO
> clearance in the midsection if you do not transplant or modify the arched roof. A
> platform of any kind will bring clearance there to less than zero. Either that
> or raise the pop-top and get less AERO.
>
>

what was done is to lay a 2x4 or other piece of wood on the sides to meet the
level of the highest part of the convex curve of the roof, then lay a  piece
of plywood up there which would stay there all the time.  a removable foam pad
was laid on that..  worked fine.  the factory bed wasnt used.
chris