Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:32:37 -0700
Reply-To: steeles <steeles@HORIZONVIEW.NET>
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From: steeles <steeles@HORIZONVIEW.NET>
Subject: Re: My Hula Girl ...on my dash ...Plastic Jesus
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"I don't care if it rains or freezes
'long as I got my plastic Jesus
ridin' n the dash board of my car.
I don't care if it's hailing and scary
'long as I got the Virgin Mary
ridin' on the dash board of my car."
A blast from the past that rolled out of one of those
folds in the gray matter. It happens sometimes.
Stephen
Chillicothe Ohio
>On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:16:27 -0400 John Parson <bentway@IWON.COM>
wrote.
> I can only speak for myself, but I've found Goop to be an excellent
answer to "Hula Girl Syndrome". Goop, if you're not familiar with it, is an
adhesive that dries to a booger-like consistency and sticks wonderfully.
Every Vanagoner should own a tube, along with duct tape and wire
coathangers. Works just as well for your bobble-Jesus, if you're
religiously inclined. Scrapes off with a fingernail later, should you
become a Buddist.
>
> The Trundler
>
>
>
>
> --- On Mon 07/14, Alistair Bell < albell@UVIC.CA > wrote:
>From: Alistair Bell [mailto: albell@UVIC.CA]
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:53:28 -0700
>Subject: Re: My Hula Girl won't stay on my dash
>
>At last, a good Vanagon tech question!<br><br>:)<br><br>I inherited an
early '60s Hula Girl from my aunt. She originally had it on<br>the back
shelf of her '62 Vauxhall Envoy - whoo-hoo! 2 tone blue and white,<br>three
on the tree manual trans, trouble free electrics (ha!) but
a<br>not-so-bullet proof ohv I4. I inherited that also, was lying under
the<br>aforementioned Hula Girl.<br><br>Wish I had kept better care of the
Envoy, was really a cute car (no sniggers<br>from the peanut gallery please,
that means you G. Goff).<br><br>Anyhoo, the girl was glued to a 3"X4" or so
bit of 3/8 plywood which allowed<br>it to stand on the Envoy shelf but not
the Vanagon dash. I removed the<br>plywood and I tried 3M double sided tape
on the hollow base of the girl, no<br>go. I finally had best success with
polyurethane construction adhesive<br>gluing a quarter sized rare earth
magnet (Lee Valley Tools) to the base of<br>her feet.<br><br>The material
this girl was made of was some sort of fibrous Plaster of<br>Paris. After
almost 40 years in a car she is getting frail (osteoporosis?),<br>her nose
is chipped and she leans to one side. She also lost her grass skirt<br>a
long time ago but my Aunt made a fetching little red crotchet number
for<br>her.<br><br>Alistair<br><br><br>--<br>'82 Westy -> diesel converted
to gas in
'94<br>albell@uvic.ca<br>http://members.shaw.ca/albell<br><br><br><br><br><br>on
13/7/03 9:02 pm, Johnny DeVilla wrote:<br><br>> Ok this might be off in the
left field, but it is important stuff. I<br>> have a hula girl in my Westy
(like all good Westies should). And it<br>> won't stick to the dash. I have
cleaned the area with alcohol then<br>> stuck her on..... few weeks later
bam poor hula is lying on the ground.<br>> I keep changing out the tape on
the bottom with double stick super<br>> adhesive tape.<br>> Has any one come
across this?<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> ----<br>>
Johnny<br>> 81 Westy<br>
>
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