Correct Headliner for 1967 Samba

[Tizian]

[yarrum]

I put a thread up requesting for original style headliner,which I was given a lead to Tizian, A fair few conversations where had working out what I wanted and I working out what I need in quantity and the process of it getting made ,to work out sizes of material required. Once all was worked out I was keeped up to date on a regular basis on how he was going in making the headlining and at different stages.
It took a while for the postal services to do there job over the Christmas period but my headlining has turned up in Australia from Germany. As the photos above show it really is a great product that I'm really happy with and will make a big difference to my project 1972 double cab ute to Australian specs.
The work, time and effort that has gone into this really is impressive.I really appreciate all that he has done to get my headlining made and sent to me in the best way possible. If you want headlining made to original specs give Tizian (oliver) a message and he will sorely sort your requirements out.Thanks
regards Yarrum (Wayne)

[Tizian]

[ozinbc]

to help those who need to sew their own headliner- some pics and dimensions from my NOS sample (soon to be no longer NOS), sunroof piece only.
I will upload photos of the complete headliner later.

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[Tizian]

[Tizian]

[ozinbc]

some more pics - tricky to measure every piece- its obvious which pieces are for the cargo doors, and the B pillar so I have not measured them.

note: the two measurements , unfortunately not in sequence - 212 x 49 are for the length of the precut piece on the non cargo door window surrounds.

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[ozinbc]

more, the first pic shows the window surround pieces- the last three show the rear perforated section, which has one bow as support.

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[Tizian]

[Tizian]

It’s progressing. Looks way better than...

I know the screws on the fan are not the correct ones. I’ll fix that later

[Tizian]

Looking back it's been a whole year now since I started this headliner project and the installation in my bus is almost complete. I'll post some more images later as they come in.

In my opinion the result so far is really promising and it looks quite original.

I decided not to pre-manufacture the headliner from sewing patterns but to let the trimmer do it the trimmer's way by meassuring in the car doing templates and comparing this with all the images you guys out there sent me from their originals, etc. So here comes a huge THANK YOU to all who contributed to this project in whatever way. Without this communitiy this probably would have been near to impossible. The originals are getting rare out there...


Right now I am figuring out a way (together with a guy from the German split community, who asked me to help him out in this matter) to reproduce a standard/microbus headliner. I posted it earlier in this thread that we are limited in width of the material. So we decided to print the ceiling part 90 degrees rotated and to sew the parts together where the tension bows are. So it's a bit more sewing but the result will be worth it. I will keep you updated on this one as well...

Bis bald!
Olli

[ozinbc]

Hey Tizian, what a great look you have achieved. Those pics of the front installation look tidy! Good luck with the rest of the assembly and with the sewing project.

Steve
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[zozo]

Those pics look great!!

[Tizian]

Thanks guys!

Next thing will be some testing on the ice blue version. I guess this will be the trickiest one...

I have some bits of the original. The spot where the domelight was once sitting seems to be good to do some color matching.

I know this is not a perfect reference. A well stored NOS piece would be better in any respect for sure. If someone has a piece, let me know

[j.pickens]

[ozinbc]

So the installation sequence would be:

1. Wrap the liner around the cardboard
2. rivet it to the front ceiling bow
3. attach the liner bow to the hooks on the rear ceiling bow
4. attach an fasten the rear edge above the rear hatch
5. Insert the sides into the slots.
6. Cover the slot with the headliner beading



Just to follow up- on my bus the rear piece of headliner was not rivetted, the same chrome headed clips that hold the door cards were used.
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[Tizian]

Progress is stagnating a bit right now. Nevertheless I like to share the latest views...

[flemcadiddlehopper]

Okay.... I've been following along on this 'cus I've got a '67, and like to see the extremes that people go to keep them as original as possible, but I don't know how I missed that this is a sliding door '67? Wow.

Love all the work being done, looks awesome.


Gordo.
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[nate9871]

So when can I order a big roll of the painted dot headliner?

I want to glue it to my kombi headliner panels, glue will squirt out of the perforated variety

[Tizian]