Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:44:04 -0800
Reply-To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: OMG...non shredded shreddy tan corduroy!!
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It looks to me like the front seats are tan velour (from a later van, perhaps) and the bench is the original tan corduroy.
Stephen
--- On Mon, 3/1/10, Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: OMG...non shredded shreddy tan corduroy!!
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 3:24 PM
Dave, like Chris said, that Tan Corduroy only came in the 1985 and 1986 VW
Vanagon Westfalia Weekenders, and it only came in the one colour.
Maybe you should enlarge the pix and look again...
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> My '91 has upholstery that looks like that in the photos except for color
> (gray instead of tan). I would call mine velour, too. Mine also looks like
> new, despite 150K miles, and my van lived in Arizona for most of its life.
> I have thought it was pretty durable stuff. Not generally true? DMc
>
> ---- Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MTS.NET> wrote:
> > I have an 85 Westfalia GL, and up until now I thought i had different
> upholstery than everyone else. Why
> > is this called corduroy? It looks more like velour to me! Anyway. My
> van has 300k kilometres (about
> > 180k miles) and the upholstery is almost like new. And believe me I've
> got a big enough butt to do
> > some serious damage to the seats if I tried. I do live north of the 49th
> if that makes a difference UV
> > wise as I've never had a garage (sorry except until recently - it now
> spends winters in a garage).
> > Pictures available upon request.
> >
> > Jeff
> > >
> > > From: JordanVw@AOL.COM
> > > Date: 2010/03/01 Mon PM 12:38:44 CST
> > > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > > Subject: OMG...non shredded shreddy tan corduroy!!
> > >
> > > this is gotta be a entry for the vanagon book of world records - '85
> westy
> > > weekender with 160k and the shreddy tan corduroy is not shredded!!!???
> > >
> > > _http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=887785_
> > > (http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=887785)
> > >
> > > PO must have sat on a cushion of air LOL
> > >
>
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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
Crescent Beach, BC
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