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Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:44 pm

Okay, I happen to really like pinstriping on bays. So shows us some pictures of your (or someone else's) pinstriped buses. Any advice on applying pinstriping would be welcomed as well. Extra points if you can find a picture that combines all of the photo threads for a pinstriped, snow-covered bus in the wilderness!

I'll start off with one from the classifieds:

Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:08 pm

Ive always loved good 70's style pinstriping, and some 80's flavors as well.

if we could only get a kit that did some of these designs, we'd be set.

Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:45 pm

Oh boy! Whoo hoo! I get to share my pinstriping pics again!

It was done by the PO, so I don't have any stories about applying the stripes.

Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:53 pm

Do I qualify as 'pin'stripes? More like marker strips.

Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:02 pm

EZ Gruv wrote: Do I qualify as 'pin'stripes? More like marker strips.

Absolutely! Nice bus, by the way. Love the green 8)

Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:52 pm

Here's another from the classifieds. Too bad it's so rusty :(

Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:36 pm

my baby while i was putting her back together.

my current project. stripes will be put back on after paint for this one too.

Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:27 pm

Awesome :D

Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:05 pm

not the best picture.

Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:20 pm

Come on guys, anything that is some kind of vinyl or otherwise sticker (IMHO) is NOT pinstriping. This is pin striping:

I have been playing around with it for a bit (none of this is my work.) I've been trying to come up with some designs that might work for my bus... When spring comes there will be some 1shot on there somewhere for sure.

Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:08 am

airkooledchris wrote:

Ive always loved good 70's style pinstriping, and some 80's flavors as well.

if we could only get a kit that did some of these designs, we'd be set.
hi im currently restoring a 78 westy champagne ed 2 . ive enquired about having the graphics down the side re popped by a local sighn bloke he recons no problem just got to decide which to go for the og ones alot thinner and at the top just below the swage line or similar to above ?? :D

Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:24 am

Here are my pin stripes before the paint job.
I plan to try and find close to original pin strippimg to
match what was on before!

Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:01 pm

Not pinstripes but flames! the flames are pinstriped along the edges though. 8)

most of the graphics you see on the buses in the previous posts are really "accent stripes" and were vinyl kits applied at point of sale by the dealerships to jazz up the otherwise dull sides of the VW bus. a proper pinstripe job is painted on by hand freestyle. :D

Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:07 am

Best pict I could find off hand! I have NO idea how old these are but I didn't notice them for two months until after I bought it!

If you look REAL hard its there right above the blue and right below the rusty windshield!

**Twitch Twitch**
My headlights look like crap! Good thing I scraped the paint off!

Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:13 pm

78 Champagne i used to own ..
Does anybody have rear pics of the brown westy with the thick graphics
earlier in this thread ?looks cool 8)

Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:12 pm

Here is another pic of my old '79 camper. This was taken back in 1994. you can see the graphics on the side some what. All the other pics I have if this bus were taken on camping trips. So either i had the tent set up on it or the side door was open and you cant see the stripes too well. :lol:

Me and my old pal.

Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:28 pm

Oh how I miss her.... She's somewhere in Japan now....

Don

Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:34 pm

Hey all, I'm not a bus guy so forgive me if these are old questions. Were these cool pinstriping features (I prefer the thicker double and triple ones especially) only available on champagne editions or alot of what's seen here aftermarket decals? Which one's were stock to VW and what years did they come in? Thanks!

Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:20 pm

blitzkrieg59 wrote: Come on guys, anything that is some kind of vinyl or otherwise sticker (IMHO) is NOT pinstriping. This is pin striping:

I have been playing around with it for a bit (none of this is my work.) I've been trying to come up with some designs that might work for my bus... When spring comes there will be some 1shot on there somewhere for sure.

First - Very nice work. I like it.

But - I would call that graphics, not pinstriping... am I wrong?

Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:25 pm

TommyBoyGomes wrote: Were these cool pinstriping features (I prefer the thicker double and triple ones especially) only available on Champagne Editions or alot of what's seen here aftermarket decals? Which one's were stock to VW and what years did they come in? Thanks!

They are all aftermarket. Did the CE come with striping? If so, it was the only one I know of from VW and was only '78 and '79. Early bays had metal trim. Landmark camper conversions came with stripes, but aren't a VW product.