Quick FYI: "boogie woogie" fabric

[BitterBeerFace]

In case you're in the market for re-doing your westy seats... busdepot has the exact fabric!

http://www.busdepot.com/details.jsp?partnumber=333000219

I'd asked a while ago and no one knew of any... just got it delivered yesterday and it looks perfect

[buildyourown]

That's a pretty awesome pattern. I've never seen it before. Makes me bummed about my boring 90's gray.
Fashion always comes back around. The new VW have plaid seats. In 5-8yrs, my gray interior will be pimp.

[carterzest]

I miss the boogie woogie fabric on my 80 Westy
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[Vanagon Nut]

My 1981 Boogie Woogie is worn or wearing out.

How hard would it be to make new front seat covers with that stuff?

Neil. Who doesn't want to work THAT hard at restoring the interior.
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[DAIZEE]

That is VERY expensive 55" X 3 ft. VERY VERY 55" X 36"
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[rjamesohio]

I just bought a 1980 Westy and it is the medium blue with the boogie-woogie interior I need to redo at minimum my front seat and here’s the challenge Bus Depot only has the chocolate brown boogie-woogie material and in fact there were two versions of this the chocolate brown and a light tan .

Does anyone know where we could find the lighter tan boogie-woogie material?

[joetiger]

I never noticed that there are two different shades. (thanks to Kamz for the photo)

vwbusshop.de was my first thought, but they don't appear to have a lighter color:

https://www.vwbusshop.de/epages/GuenzlClassicParts...%22/Stoffe

Also had to add this cool photo that came up in my search...

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[izzydog]

MY EYES!!!

100 years from now when historians are sitting around waxing poetically about the good 'ol 1980s, someone might write something like, "...automobile owners used an inexplicable amount of brown and beige throughout their interiors..." LOL

[AZ Landshaper]

Maybe its my desire for visual order but That boogie woogie gave me a headache.
So happy to now have a single color on my seats.


Signed
Boogie woogie woosie in AZ.
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[MarkWard]

Neil, I redid my Scirocco seats and I have zero upholstery experience. I did take homec in high school. I carefully removed the seat covers. Using a tool for ripping threads, I undid all the seams. I used them as templates to cut material and using my wife's sewing machine, stitched them back together. They looked pretty good, but was using solid material. You have to sew them inside out and flip them. After this, my hats off to those that can do tuck and roll for a living.
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[alaskadan]

I think I'd have to charge extra if you wanted me to sew up seats with that stuff! Its like the first try at tetris that wound up on the cutting room floor.

[zuhandenheit]

What a divisive pattern.

I think it looks great, but I can't stand wood-grain cabinets.

[danfromsyr]

that's funny, I LOVE my wood grained cabinets.
not a fan of PUTTY, too much like an office.. last thing I want my camper to remind me of.
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[zuhandenheit]

Also, it's funny to imagine we all have totally hallucinatory attachments to our own vans, which we consider very good looking, but see each other's vans for the ugly, weird things that they are -- except none of us want to tell the others what we really think!

(But no actually I think they all look cool)

[AZ Landshaper]

[Team WorldTour]

Not me. My Old Man used to be a cabinet maker, so I love oak woodgrain.
My objection is to wood grain veneer. It looks cheap and ugly, and that it's usually glued to particle board makes it all the more undesirable (to me).
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[joetiger]

I dig it. The interior of our Westy is various shades of brown/beige and it's rather soothing.

It could use a splash of color, though.

To each his own I guess. We rented a '91 camper in Washington with grey interior and didn't like it as much. At one point my wife said, "the curtains look like old man pajamas."

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'86 NAHT Vanagon GL Syncro/ supercharged ABA 2.0 "Pigpen"
'04 GTI 1.8T
'04 Golf R32

"get metaphysical with it. if it's simply a means to get to and from places, it will let you down. if it becomes your zen, it can't fail you." -dabaron

"Still, it's good to be afield."--VWagabond

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