I remember your photo of that tree collapsing your Vanagon; what a mess!  That tree managed to somehow break almost everything.  You should send a link to that photo again.
Rich
San Diego

      From: The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
 To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
 Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 5:05 PM
 Subject: Re: pop top canvas question
   
> Damn, Ron, you don't have every possible BD catalog 
> item on your own personal van?

I do test a lot of them (Bus Depot gives me a pretty good discount :-) ,  but I'm also a believer in "don't fix what ain't broke."    My present Westy has 50k original miles so it's still largely original.  My last one was another story. It had 200k miles and a reconstructed-vehicle title, so I think it had more Bus Depot replacement than original ones by the time a falling tree rendered it two dimensional. 

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