Hi Volks,  I am having my 85 painted, since a few new dents were added
during a trip in April (someone dinked the front passenger side in a hit
and run in a parking lot, and I {cringe to admit} screwed my own driver's
rear-side when I whacked a concrete pillar in a gas station...the only
thing worse than loaning your vehicle to a friend and having him do that
{as was reported here} is doing it yourself!!!)

There are a few little dings here and there, and a couple of places on
edges with rust starting, and almost the entire top of the van is peeled
off down to (but not through) the primer grey.  So it's time to make Vana
Blue all nicely blue again. While I always wanted to drive a van I could
call "Rosie", a color change is cost prohibitive (it's already gonna be
$2000 US, including dent removal), what with the interior paint and sanding
off all the old coat where it's still good

...I'm looking at the door seals and thinking it might be a good time for a
couple of them them to be replaced, and wondering what else I haven't
thought of that should be done before (or during) a paint job.  Thoughts?

--Patrice
85 "Vana Blue"