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Subject:Re: What kind of sliding window is not a vanagon window but looks a whole heck of a lot like one?
From:Nigel Tilli-Pauling
Date:Thu, 1 Jan 2015 10:03:10 -0500

Looks like your going to have build a kit car, so that your investment was
not wasted. :-)

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Julianna Elligsen <mumbrue@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wonder if the van was chopped?
>
> Julianna
> http://about.me/juliannaelligsen
> 1991 VW Vanagon Westfalia (Ophelia)
> 1990 VW Vanagon Westfalia (The Rastafalia)
> 1988 VW Vanagon Tintop (James)
>
> > On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:01 PM, Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Here's a picture to give you an idea of relative size:
> >
> > http://imgur.com/cisocY1
> >
> > I bought the smaller one through the samba classifieds.
> >
> > I'm going on the assumption that the seller also had no idea this wasn't
> > for a vanagon.  The drain slots are in the same place.  The notches are
> the
> > same.  It's like a slightly shrunken down version of the vanagon driver's
> > side slider.  About 1.5 inches short top to bottom and 1 inch short down
> > the length of the van.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what kind of vehicle this window would fit?
> > Hoping we can get a moderately happy ending out of this by finding
> someone
> > who needs one of these.  Whatever it is.
> >
> > The vanagon window is about 47x17 inches, and this is about 46x15.5
> inches.
> >
> > Perhaps this is the conservation gods' revenge on me for not looking into
> > just getting the glass replaced in my otherwise functional window.
> >
> > Anyone have any idea what that entails?
> >
> > mike
>

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