In a message dated 98-05-11 16:04:32 EDT, bayer@SYBASE.COM writes:

<<        Actually, if I rememeber correctly, the body is the same. The hole
 is cut between the post behind the front seats to the post over the rear
 bench seat. The crossbeam in the middle of the passenger compartment is
 not connected to a post which one can see if one stands in the sliding door.
 Westfelia <sp?> got the same bodies and just put different stuff in them
 and cut various parts out. There is a discussion in the archives by
 someone who did this I believe... I had found it when I was trying to see
 how much work is involved in making a passenger van into a pop top westy...
  >>

the body is the same, but the roof is a totally different stamping.  the vans
were built in Hannover as unfinished vehicles - already with the big poptop
hole in the roof - but no poptop or interior.  The vans were then shipped to
Westfalia-Werke where they were then finished with the camper conversion.

chris