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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:Julianna Elligsen
Date:Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:52:51 -0800

Wonder if the van was chopped?

Julianna
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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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