Ben looked at a photo and said it was probably a home-mod. I looked at
it more closely and it has sanding scratches around the top edge, like
someone cut out the ribs and glassed them in higher up.

On Jan 23, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Loren Busch wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Mark L. Hineline <hineline@ocotillofield.net
> > wrote:
> I'm looking at that aerial photo from VerningBan, and noticing that no
> one has a luggage carrier like mine. Mine has no indentation. It's
> flush with the top, with some ribs. No tiedowns either. Do I have some
> kind of a mutant?
>
> That sounds a lot like the non luggage rack fairing piece I've seen
> in pictures of a lot of Westfalias in Europe.  Just a slopping piece
> from the lowered pop top tapering down to almost nothing at the front.