| thom |
Sat Jul 12, 2025 6:30 am |
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How many headliner bows (or rods) would my 1957 23-window have? Most of the headliner was gone when I got the bus. I tried searching, and found lots of discussion about installation, but not much about the hardware.
My bus had 3 short bows in the remnants of the headliner, and one attached to the rear section of the roof. I had stashed everything away 18 years ago when I disassembled it all, but today I'm not sure if I have all of the parts.
Here's the single bow that I have that isn't part of the sunroof. It seems to fit that space, and has a 90° bend on one end.
The reason I'm unsure is I had a front roof clip from an early 60's standard, and it had a very small bow on either side of the air box; I kept those two before I gave it away, but I don't see where they would go on the '57. This thread says there's only one bow https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=779241 but it didn't feel authoritative.
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| edgood1 |
Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:23 am |
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| I'm pretty certain it's just that one between the sunroof and the rear hatch, not counting the shorter rods in the sunroof headliner. |
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| John Ghia |
Sun Jul 13, 2025 9:34 am |
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| How long is that headliner bow? I need to make one. |
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| thom |
Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:30 am |
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Mine is roughly 56 1/2 inches
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| bcs |
Mon Jul 14, 2025 11:59 am |
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Hello Thom,
there is only one tunnel for a bow in the headliner (near to the luggage-compartment-door). The distance is approx 60cm from the sunroof-opening:
This is not an original headliner. I will try to find additional photos.
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| John Ghia |
Mon Jul 14, 2025 9:19 pm |
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| Thanks for the info |
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