FANTASTIC!!  that is exactly it!  looking at his pics it is exactly what I
was looking at doing.  He has split it and reattached it together and then
resurfaced it.  And then attached to the van.  I was wondering about a
sealant and adhesive to the van and noted that he used black stuff on the
front and body caulk on the sides.  Will do the same as that would be the
perfect way to do it.  From effectiveness and cost.  The metal trim he used
for the attachment for screw surface is easily available as well.

Next time I am in the salvage yard I will be taking a closer look at tops
again.

One advantage I have is, is a spare vanagon in the back yard to use for the
shaping and fitting.  It also is a sunroof which will be handy for the
prototyping.

Thanks for that site referral

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On 2/7/05 1:17 PM, "Jonathan Farrugia" <jfarrugi@umich.edu> wrote:

> perhaps this is closer to what you are looking at doing.  this person who
> is on the list i believe modified a Type 2 hightop (from the pictures i
> believe it to be a safare top) to fit a vanagon.
> 
> http://www.soyouz.ca/syncro/index.htm
> 
> here is where they start with the hightop part of the project.
> http://www.soyouz.ca/syncro/pictures5.htm
> 
> jonathan
> 
>>>> On 2/6/05 8:00 AM, "Joe Federici" <joefederici@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On a hightop for my van I have been looking at some of the ones in the
>>>> salvage yards that are on chevy and dodge etc.
>>>> 
>>>> For those that work in the fiberglassing,  how hard would it be to maybe
>>>> modify one of those tops.  One I was looking at I figure I could do the
>>>> base
>>>> trimming with very little difficulty.  The hard part would be a split down
>>>> the center to remove about 1 inch and then somewhere across from one side
>>>> to
>>>> the other to remove about 6 or 7 inches.
>>>> 
>>>> I was thinking 20 gauge aluminum plate (or similar) along the seams from
>>>> the
>>>> inside with rivets through to plate on the outside at points and then
>>>> reseal
>>>> everything with fiberglassing kit.  I have done similar on smaller projects
>>>> but never on anything of that size.  Is this doable on that scale?
>>>> 
>> 
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