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lasvegas13window
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:48 pm    Post subject: seat fabric Reply with quote

Were thing seat always covered in vinyl? did they ever come in cloth fabric. i bought my thing and it came with some striped cloth fabric black and red that kind of looks like westfalia stuff (not plaid though). does anyone know about this. i will post a pick and maybe someone knows about it.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've never heard of anything other than vinyl for Thing seats. Since the Thing was designed to get wet, cloth seats wouldn't be very practical...
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Light OD green canvas was used in the early military models. I have seen that many times. Check out KoobleKars as shown in the recent Hot VW article. My pals from Albuquerque. They also use canvas. That is old school military fabric...
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