Date:         Tue, 4 Apr 95 10:14:06 EDT
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From:         ja@decws3.coe.wvu.edu (John Anderson)
Subject:      Re: CORRECTION:  Please read this!

> 
> I will NEVER, EVER buy body panels from Wolfsburg West, again!  EVER!
> 
Well, I don't know if they make panels for splits but the company
occasionaly advertising in the mags called Mill Supply makes excellent
bay window panels, on my '76 I found out about them after I had already
ordered a OEM sliding door side rocker for nearly $50 and had fabbed
quite a bit of the rocker and sliding door track support structure from
sheet steel, I obtained the other rocker from Mill Supply and it was a
thing of beauty, fit correctly front to back with the correct
indentations, water drains, etc, double galvanized, held it with a few
rivets then MIG welded it on perfectly, I trimmed a small piece off to
facilitate fitment and it happened to lay outside most of the summer in
the weather, after 3 months the piece had rusted only on the edge I cut,
not on any factory surface, this is why I figure it was galvanized
though it didn't particularly look it, sort of dull grey but not coated
looking, anyway the whole rocker, 8" high by the length of the bus was
about $16, I was very pleased, of course if they make split panels the
fitment could be much worse if they are geeneric to fit many years,
still who knows?

John Anderson
ja@coe.wvu.edu
'71 Westy, '90 Corrado G60