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Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:06 pm

Hello everybody,

i´m looking for grey vinyl with the correct pattern for the door panels of my 1950 bus.
Who knows a dealer who sell this kind of vinyl?
On the photo it looks
a little bit darker. On the other photos you can see examples of the vinyl
at the 50´bus of my friend tonny larson. I think he have the original vinyl on his bus.

Thank you Axel Struwe from germany

Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:38 am

This is (was) the stuff on my early 51. You can see it best where it has shrunk and not been overpainted. I have some left for samples.

Im looking too , if i find some i will post it up.

Mark

Tue Dec 02, 2008 12:10 pm

I assume all early buses had vinyl covered panels then? When did this stop? My 52 kombi doesn't have any vinyl on the panels

Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:13 pm

its really tough to match things like this(colors) on a computer/monitor but does this look like a close match? texture?
http://www.gahh.com/sample/SampleColors/0139p.htm

Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:08 am

Thanks -Thats not a bad match actually. Like you say hard to tell from monitors. Im going to traul the suppliers around my way with my sample and see if i can find a good match.

Scotty - no idea. I think it was 51 sometime it stopped and went to the later card type.A Vw cost saving thing i guess.

Mark

Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:20 am

Scotty wrote: I assume all early buses had vinyl covered panels then? When did this stop? My 52 kombi doesn't have any vinyl on the panels

Change was at 20-015780 for type 21 panel and at 20-015629 for type 23 kombi.

-Tonny

Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:12 am

Just for reference - Here are some better pictures, its very fine grain stuff and very thin with a sort of woven back. couple of pictures of how it was cut to the edges and the glue lines they used if you want it exact...

Its not V cut was straight cut but it has shrunk

If anyone has any info or a reasonable match please post the link.
Cheers

Mark