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 Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 7:29 pm Post subject: VW Logo Custom Spare Tire Cover |
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What do you guys think!? 
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SGKent
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Location: at the beach in Northern Wokistan
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Looks nice and will reflect light from a good distance - good job. |
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Red Fau Veh
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Location: Prescott Az.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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It looks good, I am not a fan of tires mounted to the nose, but the emblem is nice. We had a custom emblem made for the bra on our 73. The bra hides all the damage caused by the front mounted tire it used to have.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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I PREFER front mounted tires on Westy's and on std busses, I don't like them.
BUT - I like the fact knowing it gives you that little bit of extra protection where it counts too... I love the extra cabinet space in a westy when the tire is on front! |
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Red Fau Veh
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The trouble is that it sticks out further and higher than any part of the bumper. I think other drivers are more likely to accidentally smash your nose in the store parking lot because they get to close and hit it. I noticed vw moved the tire to the cabinet behind the drivers seat but still had the rear cabinet taking up space that could have been a bigger bed. Who hangs clothes anyways these days?
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1971 Deluxe Sunroof Bay 1905 stroker, dual idf40's, 74mm Scat forged crank, engle 110 cam. CB 044 heads, AutoCraft rockers, chromoly push rods
1973 Orange transporter stock type 4 with dual 40 Dellortos and Empi single quiet pack
1969 Adventurewagen blue whale Gene Berg 1776 built by Dave Kawell dual 36 DRLA's, Vintage Speed exhaust, Bosch 019 screamer
1961 Swivel Seat camper, L345 grey
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obnoxiousblue
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Location: Commack, NY
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Nice, I had a similar one crafted by a girl on Etsy last winter. It's held up well.
I really wanted a glow-in-the-dark material but since the only place I found that advertised any (Sparky's V Dub/Threads to Treads) was impossible to contact and or sick for almost 7 weeks I went with the classic white on blue for our club's logo.
I dig the black on white though, definitely visible and will probably wear better than black in the sun/heat.
Nice work!
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Kirk
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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I like it honestly.
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Desertbusman
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:17 pm Post subject: Re: VW Logo Custom Spare Tire Cover |
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What do you guys think!?
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Nice job. It's big enough that everyone will know it's a VW.
BTW it's interesting how with each new era that VW kept going to smaller emblems. With some of VW's later model cars it's too bad they even had a VW emblem on them. 
Here is how we did our emblem cover.
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