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nimbus
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Got anymore interior pictures?
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drpete
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| Got anymore interior pictures? |
Here are a few more pics of before & after cleaning out the shag.
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chipmcluk
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| Up until about ten years ago, my grandparents had that same carpet throughout their house! I loved it. Being a kid playing in that stuff was the next best thing to being on the lawn! |
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Braukuche
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That's one solid bus, I'll tell you what.
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The Sage
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| Up until about ten years ago, my grandparents had that same carpet throughout their house! I loved it. Being a kid playing in that stuff was the next best thing to being on the lawn! |
I once got my braces stuck in carpet like this...stuck to the floor for several hours, almost cut my lips off trying to free me.
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QueSeraSera
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I once got my braces stuck in carpet like this...stuck to the floor for several hours, almost cut my lips off trying to free me. |
What were you doing making out with the floor?
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vwluver74
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damn that thing is solid!!  |
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The Sage
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I once got my braces stuck in carpet like this...stuck to the floor for several hours, almost cut my lips off trying to free me. |
What were you doing making out with the floor? |
One should never laugh and hide under a bed at the same time. Hide and seek gone arye.
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drpete
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| Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:11 am Post subject: Re: Mango Bus with Mango-Colored Sunroof |
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| Question: does anyone know of a source for a replacement Mango-colored sliding roof? I think this would look really nice....better than a tan or black roof. Any ideas, anyone? |
Once you are ready to actually put on the sunroof, you can order the white canvas and then have it sprayed with a fabric paint with the correct color. I recently had this done to my white sunroof to make it match the silver/beige paint. It looks perfect and matches the bus very nicely.
A good restoration shop should be able to do that dying/painting of your top whether vinyl or canvas. |
Does that dye treatment stand up to the sun? I've never seen it. There's a green repro sunroof available that's vinyl. I'd rather do the canvas because it's the correct material. Any opinion out there as to what would look best??? green vinyl vs canvas that's been colored/altered
After almost a year "out of it" because of a miserable back problem, I finally got back in the barn and started in on the bus. The time off (9 months) sucked....but I found a young guy to help with the body work WITHOUT repainting everything. Says he thinks he can match up the paint. So I get to keep this bus' patina as original as possible. First we have to get all that glue off the top. Laquer thinner working well.
After tearing out all the interior, I found rust only where the Westy water tank was located and on the bottoms of the windshield frames. Very slight surface rust in the sunroof runner in the back. I looked through the PO's records and found that the watertank had been replaced in the 80's . History....very cool
By the way, after the PO had the car shipped here from Germany, he went on a trip to Alaska before the odometer hit 1000. The bastard 40hp got him there and back. He had to replace the engine @19,787 miles.
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House
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Glad you are working on it again!
If you find a close cloth color you are happy with I think it would
last better than the dyed vinyl. Then again, it's going to stay in your
garage most of the time anyway, right? Have you looked at the SEM
vinyl dyes? They have a real good color selection, but I am not sure
how well anything is really going to work on a flexible sunroof color...? |
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drpete
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| I thought that cloth wasn't used on a bus after the late '50's. It would look nice but not quite appropriate, I guess. |
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j.pickens
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Here's a good color chart for vinyl top material.
Looks like there is no green off the shelf, but the Buckskin or Dark Tan Haartz Single Texture Pinpoint Vinyl would be pretty close:
http://stores.ebay.com/EZ-Softtops/FABRIC-COLORS.html
Its kinda hard to see, but here is my ex-deluxe, with what I think is the Buckskin top:
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drpete
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Thanks for the input and the pics. Nice bus and I really like location....next to an older train. I've been looking for a passenger car like one of those in your pic out here in Calif. My wife isn't crazy about the idea, but I think it would look nice to have it in the back part or our property and put my train layout in it and entertain friends in it as well. She hinted that I might have to move into it full time if I was serious.  I'll keep looking and trying.  |
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Stocknazi
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very cool bus with a nice history.
my first choice would be to put the westy kit back in and have one super cool camper. defiently would be a tough choice btw a sunroof and a subhatch. cool bus either way though.
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drpete
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| My friend, Big Bill, wants me to as well. But all the Westy cabinets are gone. All I got was a few cushions and the tent and child's cot. The M-code designates it as a Kombi. I'm not a purist, but it's easier to go original at the moment. Still, I'm looking for a Westy kit. But for now, I'll drive it for fun as it originally was, then if I can find a kit, someday change it back, just like the PO did. Later today, I'll try to scan a pic the PO gave me of the bus set up with the tent in the Sierra. Very cool to see a mango westy... |
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House
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If you go back to Westy I call "DIBS" on the interior you got from Bill !!!
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drpete
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Wish I could have got his bus....just for the Westy inside. Very, very nice. |
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House
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Model 225 - Cargo doors right, sunroof, left hand drive, full middle seat
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