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Subject:Re: Tin top camping
From:Julianna Thoennes
Date:Mon, 7 Oct 2013 23:42:58 -0700

Richard!  Great write up!  Love the pictures and explanation!

Julianna
1990 VW Vanagon Westfalia with Tiico conversion. (The Rastafalia)
1988 VW Vanagon. (James)

On Oct 7, 2013, at 5:35 PM, Richard A Jones <Jones@colorado.edu> wrote:

> I camped in my '81 air-cooled tin top for 19 years before I bought
> my Syncro Westy.  I still have the '81 and drove it to Buses by
> the Bridge last January:
> https://plus.google.com/photos/103112516551893462609/albums/5837531697558906833?banner=pwa&authkey=CNPQkqLd_r-6bg
>
> I made curtains.  Not a big deal since I had made them for my
> '61 and then my '67 and then my '76.  Here is a write-up on
> how I did them:
> http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/VWcurtains/VWCurtains.html
> This description plus all the pictures are here:
> http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/VWcurtains
>
> I also made two screens for the sliding windows.  They looked
> like this:
> http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/screen.jpg
> and like this when in the window:
> http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/screen-installed.jpg
>
> My '81 does not have tinted windows.  My Syncro Westy does.  If
> I were to use the '81 for camping, I would get the windows tinted
> ASAP.  But as Bob said, at night the tint doesn't help you--you
> need curtains.
>
> Richard