Kinda almost looks like a BirdHouse

                                ORR

On 6 Jan , 2013, at 8:08 AM, Bill M wrote:

> Richard
> What is the tall thing that appears to be on the top
> of your van?
> Thanks for sharing your photos with us. I always enjoy
> them.
>
> Bill
>
> On Jan 5, 2013, at 10:29 PM, Richard A Jones <Jones@COLORADO.EDU>
> wrote:
>
>> In 1962 my brother bought a Kombi with split seats and built
>> a camper into the back.  A year later, with a baby, he popped
>> the top.  This was in Denver.
>>
>> Here's what it looked like:
>> http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/originalpoptop/Splitties.jpg
>> [The 15-window bus is mine; I'm the tall guy in the center with
>> my back to the camera, age 22.]
>>
>> Here's a better view of the poptop.  You can see the bed level
>> in the rear hatch, raised up so there was storage below it.
>> Westfalia never did catch on to that.
>> http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/originalpoptop/DPJpoptop.jpg
>>
>> The best view:
>> http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/originalpoptop/DPJpoptop2.jpg
>> The front roof folded down and then the rear, which rested on
>> the front upright part, so there was a slope from that top
>> to the rear.  The pieces were made of corrugated fiberglass.
>>
>> He drove it until about 1971, when with a second kid, he got
>> an F-150 and an Okie box.
>>
>> Anyway, Douglas Payne Jones (1936-2011) built a poptop in 1963.
>> It took Westfalia five more years to figure it out.
>>
>> Richard