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Subject:Re: Side Vent window retrofit?
From:David Katsuki
Date:Tue, 3 Nov 1998 23:30:31 -0500

The change in vent windows seems to have happened somewhere between 87 and
90.   Our 87 has the good kind of vent windows, and our 90 doesn't.

Dave
87 Wolfsburg
90 Westfalia

At 04:45 PM 11/3/98 -0500, LouiZe! wrote:
>Hello, from the balmy South!
>
>Would be interested to know if there is a retrofit avail. to allow the
>front triangular vent windows to open approx. 45 degrees further forward in
>order to get air flow?  My 72 Westy has the fully opening windows, which
>are sorely missed on the Vanagon.
>
>Was there any reason this feature was discontinued, as well as the rear
>seat opening window on the 72?
>
>My 89 Westy (who's PO lived in Germany and was German) has manuals in
>German.  One of them shows optional rear side windows (the long bays in
>back) that are "safari" style, in that they kick out and swing up. Am going
>to check and see what is involved in getting those shipped here!
>
>
>LouiZe
>
>89 Westy
>72 Westy
>