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Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:36 am

i have what i think is an original tool roll in my late 63 deluxe. it is made out of the perforated vinyl material. is this correct or did someone just fab this from some headliner material?

Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:56 am

my 59s is a greyish perf vinyl

Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:38 am

Picture?

The tool rolls are typically made of seat material, not headliner material.

The only perforated ones I have seen are Bay Window.

Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:41 am

I shouldn't have said perf, more like textured feel, like seats.

Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:50 am

tool rolls were made out of whatever scraps they had laying around. I have a vinyl headliner tool roll. I also have a tool roll that is made out of vinyl sunroof cover material. I also have one made out of '60s beetle door panel material. all of those which I just mentioned were picked up at swap meets, so I don't know which cars they came out of.

I have a caramel brown one that was made out of the thinner material that was used to cover kick panels, that came out of a '59 kombi. (so it doesn't necesarily match the upholstery of the vehicle that it is in) there are also green light duty canvas ones. I asume that those were either made out of scraps from something that was supplied to volkswagenwerk in canvas bags or they sourced the canvas because they didn't have enough scraps of other stuff.

all that said, the majority of them are seat cover material. I just seek out the oddball ones at swap meets. I use the sunroof cover material one in my sunroof standard.

Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:06 am

I mis-spoke a bit, I have seen a lot of bags made out of door panel material too.

I like my Deluxe cross-hatch bag best:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=237872

Original year and model vehicle source unknown.

Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:25 am

My '65 cover is the salt and pepper material. It's so cute I sleep with it often.

Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:50 am

EverettB wrote: I mis-spoke a bit, I have seen a lot of bags made out of door panel material too.

I like my Deluxe cross-hatch bag best:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=237872

Original year and model vehicle source unknown.

Is that made out of circa 1961 interior panel material? The places on my bus where the interior panels were not exposed to UV look exactly like that. The parts that were exposed to UV, the fine crosshatch pattern has faded away.

BTW - Nice stash of goodies!

Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:29 pm

I believe so but it has a soft liner inside.

The pattern is a lot crisper due to limited sun damage:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=311390

Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:47 am

would anyone care to post some measurments of their bus tool roll?

details of the stiching, details, etc.

Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:03 am

crofty wrote: My '65 cover is the salt and pepper material. It's so cute I sleep with it often.

:shock:

Next your gonna tell us your skivvies are made of the same material.

:lol:

tj

Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:12 am

^^well, DUH!!^^ :D

Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:05 pm

In the interest of concentrating replies, I added some additional information to the Bus Tool kit thread listed in the Bus FAQ:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=220868