In a message dated 9/10/06 7:44:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, trleek@GMAIL.COM
writes:

> Sad to report that my wife is making me sell our 87 wolfsburg.  She
> worries about head-on collisions, shoulder belts for the three kids,
> airbags, etc.  Picky picky.  Said dragon lady is willing to get,
> instead, a 2000 Eurovan.  So I am investigating.  Poptop Eurovans of
> 2000 vintage appear to command $20-$30K.  Good heavens.  Too much for
> a 7-year-old  van in my humble opinion.  However, I've seen many
> non-poptops of same year selling for less than $10K.  There's one for
> $9K on ebay right now.  This is the buy-it-now price, even. What is up
> with this freaky disparity? Is the poptop really worth $10-20K?
>
> Anyway, here's my question.  Can't I get one of those seemingly budget
> 2000 Eurovans, cut a hole in the roof, and bolt on a poptop?  Will it
> take the Vanagon poptop or is that entirely the wrong shape/size?  I
> imagine these are easier to come by than the Eurovan one.  How hard
> would it be to get an actual spare Eurovan poptop to install on it?
> Or does this f-up the air conditioning completely?  Or something even
> more crucial...  Any advice would be much appreciated!  Any experience
> actually performing this conversion would be even better!
>
> Thanks as usual for the great advice I'm likely to get.
>
>

i love posts like this..   well we can see who wears the pants in your family
:<)   another reason why i am single!   no "S.O." to tell me what i can or
cant drive..
come on man, get some b*lls !!  :<) *smiles*
you keep the vanagon, and buy her a cheap late 90's chrysler dodge caravan or
whatever with all the above features she must have and put the rest of the
money you'd be blowing on a 2000-2003 eurovan back into your pocket.

seriously tho, you can get middle and rear shoulderbelts for the vanagon,
they did make them, and they are available.  all 90-91 passenger vans had the
middle and rear shoulderbelts stock.  i have sold many sets over the years.. i
have some middle shoulderbelts for sale now.
as far as head on collisions, im sure youve seen the pics of the head on
vanagon/volvo collision.. the vanagon fared very well. this has been posted
ad-nasueam (sp?) all over the internet for years..
i am parting out a '90 GL right now that had a frontal collision with a SUV -
and the driver did not require any medical treatment aside from minor
bruising.
i will get pics of this, if anyone wants?

as far as a eurovan,   the vanagon poptop wont fit it at all, and yes youd
lose the rear a/c.   the stock eurovans w/ poptops only have front a/c.

it always makes me laugh when i hear people say  "i have to ask my wife
first"  or "my wife says i cant have it"
ugh!!
come on dude..   get some! :<)  LOL

chris