I'm sure they could do a sunroof on a vanagon ..
just 'how much' and getting to where they do the work would be the main
issues I imagine.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Ploessl" <karl.ploessl@gmail.com>
To: "Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
Cc: <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: Glass Sun Roof

> American Sunroof Corporation offered at one point custom made (but if
> I recall "affordable"/every man's sunroofs)
> http://www.ascglobal.com/
> http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/a/asc/asc.htm
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
> <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Karl
> 1981 VW Westy "Jenny"
> 2000 VW Jetta GLS VR6
> Wilmington, DE