The sliding door windows are a different size on the '80 through '84s,
too (Westy or not).  They changed in '85 and were the same through '91.

Mike

Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:
> I just noticed a westy window has the latch at the middle of the sliding
> glass part and not at the forward corner, like a non-westy.
> And there's room for a screen.
> I have at least one for sale, in Oregon.
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Gronski [mailto:gronski@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:16 PM
> To: Scott Daniel - Shazam
> Cc: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
> Subject: Re: Ripoff on Vancouver Island
>
> The 60/40 split westy windows are available on thesamba all the time
> for $50 to $75 each. There was a guy in Toronto selling a pair for $10
> each (Canadian) but he carted them off to the dump a month ago because
> he had the ad up a year and no one wanted them.
>
> http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:pX7Tqd0jHaQJ:www.thesamba.com/vw/classi
> fieds/detail.php%3Fid%3D410154+vanagon+windows+rich.jones&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3
> &gl=ca
>
> Chris
>
> On 8/2/07, Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>> Sorry that happened to ya man.
>> I've got several of those I think, and I don't want that much for them for
>> sure !
>> One factor.....Westy and non-westy are slightly different ?
>> The size of the sliding part ?
>> If that's so, it could make the 'true westy' window more valuable.
>> I'll look at some of my westy's versus non, and see what the diff is.
>> Scott
>> www.turbovans.com
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
>> Christopher Gronski
>> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:50 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Ripoff on Vancouver Island
>>
>> I called Malahat Auto Parts looking for a drivers side middle sliding
>> window for a westfalia and he quoted me $250 plus shipping. Crazy! Do
>> these guys not know what things go for in the real world?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>