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Subject:Re: Glass Sun Roof
From:Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Date:Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:06:46 -0800

I've seen it twice.
one was on a plane white diesel vanagon I owned once, that had been
installed by a Sunroof Company in Seattle.
( there was a label from them on the driver's door - that company may not
exist any more- I estimate the work was done in the 80's - but search
around )

the other one was kinda interesting -
on a Syncro Westy.
They cut out most of the bottom of the front roof rack, but left the sides
on - so it looked normal from outside the van.
And there was a clear sunroof/moonroof over the front two seats .

A nice thing I like to do on Westy roofs ...
when either the skylight is gone/broken/blown out ..or there isn't a
skylight at all, is......
I get bronze-gold Plexiglas, and I install that flat onto the Westy roof.
Not very high tech, but not expensive either.
I just seal it to the top of the roof . The particular Plexiglas I get is
called 'edge glow' ..and from the side, the Plexiglas on the edge looks like
a neon light - really captures light .

and ...I use the bronze-gold tint because that's a fine compromise - clear
would be horribly glary at times, translucent would let in lots o light, but
you can't see the moon outside at night or whatever ..
and with no moving parts ...there's nothing that can leak or break.
and you can still haul stuff on top of it too .....though dealing with a
westy flat roof is far less complicated than dealing with a rounded metal
roof and headliner over the front seats - but it has been done.

a few hundred dollars at least, by a professional sunroof company, I
suspect.

Scott
turbovans

Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Drier." <Vanvw1@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 12:12 PM
Subject: Glass Sun Roof

> Has anybody seen or installed a glass sliding sun/moon roof on a vanagon?
> It would be over the driver and front passenger seats on a 91 carat.
>
> Appreciate any input.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve