On 10/31/98 12:38 PM, Ari Ollikainen eloquently inscribed

>        Yesterday I passed a ~88 camper on the freeway with an awning
>        on the driver's (left hand) side! Why would someone put an
>        awning on the side opposite the sliding door?
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When I bought Dire Wolf, my 84 Wolfburg GL Westie it had a Catalina 2500
awning on the passenger side.  Later, after finding an original VW drive
away tent, I began to think about moving the awning to the drivers side
for shade on the port side.  the tent would be on the passenger side,
which is really the only side it can be on.  But the awning would provide
shade on either side.  I do not think the awning above the propane vent
would be any issue whatsoever.

I have not made that move because (1) the awning is on real tight and the
lower support brackets are screwed into the bus, (2) my awning also has
bug netting that extends from the awning roof to the ground and (3)
another portion of the netting fits under the passenger rear wheel well
and under the sliding door.  So the awning really cries out for the
sliding door side of the camper.

If my PO had not installed such a great awning and anti-bug sysytem, I
might have moved the awning to the drivers side.  As it is, I erect the
tent away from the vanagon.

-peace
Ed Stevens
Valley Forge PA