Date:         Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:09:22 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: 7-passenger curtain rods?
Comments: To: Alan Watts <alan@DATAX.COM>
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Alan Watts wrote:

>Hi - I have an 87 GL that I'd like to install curtains in.  The only place
>I've found the kits is at Go Westy, but their supplier stopped making them
>and they are unsure when they will get more.  Does anyone know where else
>to get them?
>
>Thanks!
>Alan
>
>
For my long journey down the Alaska Highway in 1996, I bought some cheap
Wally-World curtains and some stick-on velcro tape.
I stuck tape to the curtains, and tape to the window frame, and stuck
the curtains up there.  Did all side windows and the rear hatch glass.

Worked for me.

When driving, I just took the curtains down from the rear glass.

Another thing I did was hang a curtain rod across behind the driver and
passenger seat up open the coat-hanger stubs in the door posts. I just
made a loop of aircraft safety wire through a hole in each end of the
curtain rod, then hung the loop over the coat-hanger stubs. The rod
stayed nicely in place. I put curtains on that rod and between the
velcro-curtains and the curtains on that rod up front, it provided good
privacy. I drove all the way across country, setting the curtains in
place for privacy at night or when it suited me.

The biggest bugaboo was trying to keep the mosquitoes out with the
windows open. I forgot to get mosquito netting!!!

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Chelsea, AL