> Now that's what I call a tent!  Quite the price though.  If I recall there
is a rubber
> gasket that attaches to the sliding door to keep bugs/rain out, right?

As I recall the only rubber gasket was the one that was used to hold the
tent to the rain gutter, not around the sliding door. Instead of using the
pole-clamped-into-the-rain-gutter attachment method commonly used today,
these old ones used a rubber channel that you slid onto the lip of the rain
gutter. I had one of these tents when my daily driver was a '77 Westy (as it
is meant for Buses, not Vanagons).  Sliding the channel onto the rain gutter
was a bit of a pain. Even the least bit of dirt or rust would make it snag.
I used to spray the rain gutter with WD40 first, and then my wife and I
would slowly slide the channel on a bit at a time from font to rear, moving
the Bus forward periodically as we did it until the sliding door opening
lined up. It took a while.  I really miss the '77 Westy but not so much the
tent; I found it to be much less practical than modern designs. That being
said, it was a very cool looking in a vintage way, and drew a lot of
compliments.

Ron Salmon
The Bus Depot, Inc.
www.busdepot.com