Date:         Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:11:32 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Third annual request for 83 westy  fabric
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No kidding. When I drove a friend of mine to the F1 race at Indy this
summer (and all way up there introduced him to the world of westies) we
met another westy owner there who had likewise dragged along a friend
who by the time we met them had heard enough about westies. I heard his
friend say to mine: "these guys would like nothing more than to frolic
down endless rows of westies, wearing suits made out of that damn
striped seat fabric."

Yeah, and?...

Here's what I'm going to do to prolong the inevitable if I don't find
some fabric: inspired by the Medical Channel on TV, I'm going to do a
graft like they do when they take skin from a normally unseen area to
do cosmetic surgery: I'm going to take some of the fabric from the
underside of my rear cushion and have it replaced with any old thing
and put the donor fabric on my front seat.

In the mean time I will google "hand weavers" to see if I can have some
created.

Sheepskin covers = scar tissue.

Jim

On Aug 25, 2005, at 8:58 PM, P. Stanhope wrote:

> Good luck finding this damn good lookin 83' VW fabric.
> My 84'seats are fading away too. Makes me wanna cry.
> That color patterns so good lookin ide make me a sport
> jacket if i had enough material. I HOPE you are lucky.
>
> PHil
>
> --- Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET> wrote:
>
>> Somebody's eventually going to have this.
>>
>> I have an 83 westy that's beginning to show wear on
>> the driver's seat
>> cloth. I need to replace it with a passenger's seat
>> cover or else just
>> get a piece from somewhere that I can have stitched
>> over the offending
>> area.
>>
>> It's green, brown and tan vertical stripe. No blue.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
>
>
>
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