Date:         Fri, 20 May 2005 20:27:47 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: To paint or replace dash? that is the question
Comments: To: Erin Randolph <lexluthier72@YAHOO.COM>
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I drove my 1983 Escatorial Green Westfalia for 10 years and put 178,000
miles on it.
I installed a rebuilt engine at 145K and another one at 278K.
I never got through working on that Westy until my last job was to take the
cash from the sale of it to the bank.
That was one of my best westy days .................
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Buy one of those carpet things that lays over the dash and hides all that
ugly.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Erin Randolph" <lexluthier72@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 7:33 PM
Subject: To paint or replace dash? that is the question


> Hello all,
>     Im as many know in the process of restoring an 80
> westy...Its orig color was Assuan brown....Ack...the
> outside has been painted what im sure was bright
> orange on top, and chocolate brown on the bottom
> (again, Ack)...Im looking to eventually go to some
> sort of green...I was originally thinking carribean
> green (93 eurovan) but then I have brown interior,
> which in my opinion doesnt go with a color that light,
> If I go with velvet green (60s bus) I could keep the
> brown interior, and it would be a fairly good
> match...or repaint or replace the dash...Any thoughts?
>  How expensive are the dash parts?  How well does
> paint hold up in this application?  Should I just stay
> with brown and go darker on the shade of green?  Just
> conducting a sort of mini poll...Any thoughts would be
> great.
>                                      -Erin
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