Date:         Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:07:34 -0400
Reply-To:     Don in North Carolina <Don_Dixon@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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From:         Don in North Carolina <Don_Dixon@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject:      Re: 7-passenger curtains - thanks everyone!
Comments: To: Alan Watts <alan@DATAX.COM>
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Alan,

Bus Depot also sells curtains, including a kit to retrofit the 7 passenger
vans, but you have to make your own curtain rods:

http://www.busdepot.com/details.jsp?partnumber=232720

$139.95 before list1e discount...

Don in Reidsville, NC
1986 Kawasaki Concours
1988 Vanagon GL (Sylvia)
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." - Adam Savage

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Watts" <alan@DATAX.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wed 13 April 2005 14:50
Subject: 7-passenger curtains - thanks everyone!


>I got lots of responses from my curtain query and I wanted to thank
> everyone for their ideas and insights.  The overall consensus was to make
> my own in one of 2 ways:
>
> 1. buy aluminum slats, do some fancy bending and screwing and use them as
> the curtain hangers (this is how many of the aftermarket kits work)
> 2. make wolfsburg-style snap in curtains (better light-leak protection)
>
> I guess it's up to my mom now since she's the one who will be sewing them!
>
>
> thanks everyone...
> Alan