Date:         Sat, 24 May 2003 02:23:27 +0200
Reply-To:     Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Subject:      Re: painting the fiberglass roof
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For what it's worth...

I got a used poptop and had it off of the car, which was a definate
advantage in being able to clean it up and paint it.

I just tossed it in the backyard, and hit it with some high pressure water
to get the slimey crud off.  Then I went at it with those plastic mesh pot
scrubber things... 3M makes them I think.. scotch-bright maybe.

Anyway, with scrubbing and some mild clorox solution I was able to get it
really clean.  Then I hit it with wet/dry sand paper... I think like a 320
corn, and sanded it all wet.

Then a few days later, I brought it in the garage away from the flies and
dust, and scrubbed the whole thing with solvent to completely de-grease it.
I painted it with a foam brush using 2-part epoxy yacht paint.  I chose a
light gray for mine. The paint was not cheap.. but it is amazing stuff.  It
goes on like butter, and then smooths down to a really great finish... no
brush strokes or anything visible (except for a drip or two that I didn't
catch).

Then I got some brand new WESTFALIA emblems and put them on, and now the
pooptop sits out in the back yard and looks really slick! Way cooler than
filthy white.

Would be cool to have enough time to get it onto my Vanagon one of these
days.

RSF

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Salzburg, Austria
1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
1987 Golf Cabriolet
1991 Golf