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Poptop every time; the only things i miss about my old hightop are the bad things Fighting the wind, car park barriers, overhanging anything, the heat, and the clutter of all the things in that extra storage space that we never really needed anyway.

Put an insulation wrap thing around your pop top and I reckon your rain worries are over; in hotter parts of the world your high top is an oven so its very much horses for courses

If I was headed North only Id take a high top, but for all round practicality the pop top wins for me.

Jed - love the website and the vids - they are great. But finding the comments about Westy Syncros now rather...erm how can I be discrete to a fellow syncro lover ....erm ....yes......well..... tedious. Owning something unusual is spot on. Your a lucky guy - end of.

Lets steer clear of any more .... I would only sell if and that stuff eh?

Love the vids though. Never forget this

Hey and mudlark - agree about the pop top in summer - now worries. Have you ever been in winter or got two young kids?? Wkere do you put all the stuff? Answer - in a high top. Not the greatest looks put in the elements - the business.

joolsvw wrote:Jed - love the website and the vids - they are great. But finding the comments about Westy Syncros now rather...erm how can I be discrete to a fellow syncro lover ....erm ....yes......well..... tedious. Owning something unusual is spot on. Your a lucky guy - end of.

Lets steer clear of any more .... I would only sell if and that stuff eh?

Love the vids though. Never forget this

trying to find his comment?

maybe i`m a bore but i could watch syncro westy tv allday.

would beat work thats for sure.

Its not very often I am speechless

jed

joolsvw wrote:Hey and mudlark - agree about the pop top in summer - now worries. Have you ever been in winter or got two young kids?? Wkere do you put all the stuff? Answer - in a high top. Not the greatest looks put in the elements - the business.

I have two young kids and a pop top. We have slept in the roof in -9c. We use a thermal screen, had the Eber running and a feather duvet and it was warm.

For me the biggest pain is putting up the thermal screen and taking it down if it is raining.

The biggest advantage of a hitop is they are more discreet if you are sleeping where maybe you shouldn't be.

Westy hitops look okay from the front but hideous from the rear.

joolsvw wrote:Jed

Lets steer clear of any more .... I would only sell if and that stuff eh?

I thought Jed said he would never sell his?

joolsvw wrote:Hey and mudlark - agree about the pop top in summer - now worries. Have you ever been in winter or got two young kids?? Wkere do you put all the stuff? Answer - in a high top. Not the greatest looks put in the elements - the business.

Family of four, been 'at it' since the kids were nippers, in rain and shine and March to October generally. (Yeh i know, lightweight )

First Syncro was an Autosleeper high top; the upstairs bed is smaller than a Westy's (high or pop top) and my kids outgrew it by their early teens. We saw a pop top was cavernous in comparison and though we had concerns about what we would do about storage decided to go for it because in our view, based on our needs we saw more pros than cons.

..lee.. wrote:only reason id sell mine is if i could get in to a high top westy having spent time in both with a family a hightop would suit us better i`m sure.

i`d still want a pop top for green lane weekends though.

sure you dont want to swap that hightop for my soul paul.

think that was me and same applies. pop top is fine in the cold but when its chucking it down and midnight and the kids are screaming that they want to go to bed pulling over at the side of the road and getting out to fit the thermo screen is a pain as is the dripping coats after you get back in.

high top would not go where i take the pop top without a good chainsaw. guess i really need both.

I've taken my hightop panel van where pop tops have feared to tread http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tux5cI6s ... ata_player" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; most lanes are ones which u would have very little trouble with and the ones where hightops can't go are often pick up/doka territory which you probably shouldn't be bringing a camper down in the first place. one advantage of the hightop that peeps forget is that I can stand up in mine any time none of this stooping over which for me is the most important plus there is no way u can compare the storage space that a hightop has. ok I can't get under barriers but my van wouldn't now anyway after the Lidl springs.

When I started actively seeing how many genuine Westy Syncros there were in the UK, I could only find about ten that people were generally aware of. Sure there must be more out there, after all mine and Jeds had both been recently discovered in non enthusiast hands, but be under no illusions, a genuine Westy Syncro is a rare beast.

beelzibus wrote:When I started actively seeing how many genuine Westy Syncros there were in the UK, I could only find about ten that people were generally aware of. Sure there must be more out there, after all mine and Jeds had both been recently discovered in non enthusiast hands, but be under no illusions, a genuine Westy Syncro is a rare beast.

Maybe we should tart a new thread

jed

Dont worry I wont commandeer the forum and go all Cooper on yo' asses, but if anyone does see one it'd be great if you could pass it on.






AS IF ANY OF YOU WOULD!!

Plenty of nice Calis/Atlantics out there in 2wd, just need some syncro bits grafting on