In a message dated 97-08-27 10:54:18 EDT, jadams@SKIMMER.FSL.NOAA.GOV writes: << Can someone suggest where I would find a good set of curtains for my 90 Vanagon ? Are they sold by mail order ? I didn't see any on offer by Bus Depot on their website, so hopefully there are other suupliers. Any suggestions or comments are welcome. >> Some things for our noble road machines are difficult to manufacture at home with much precision. For instance, the Tomato sauce cans I used for pistons never made it around the block, and the Westy top seal I made from a garden hose frequently comes loose, flogging other DC beltway drivers. Curtains, on the other hand, I would certainly reccomend you explore manufacturing by a local seamstress (perhaps yourself or spouse?). The seams are all rolled-straigh hemming (the easiest to sew). You have a myriad of fade resistant cloth at your local upholstery fabric store, you can make them as opaque or translucent as you wish and you're assured of displaying the pattern and weave of your choice when you pick it out yourself. The old curtains come down in a flash, and serve handily as a pattern (that's a "template" for you engineer-types). Installation is the reverse of removal. Suzy's bus will have a double layer curtain, with a satin-finished light seafoam green cotton toward the dark-tinted glass, and a mottled darker seafoam hopsack material toward the interior of the bus. These have yet to be made, but we have the material. : ) We toyed with the idea of some of the juvenile fabrics, Tommy the Tank Engine and Barney, the Dinosaur from Hell are quite popular and available in many patterns and colors. Set your sights on a worthwhile goal, like Big Bird curtains, gmbulley fairfax, va
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