At last, a good Vanagon tech question!

:)

I inherited an early '60s Hula Girl from my aunt. She originally had it on
the back shelf of her '62 Vauxhall Envoy - whoo-hoo! 2 tone blue and white,
three on the tree manual trans, trouble free electrics (ha!) but a
not-so-bullet proof ohv I4. I inherited that also, was lying under the
aforementioned Hula Girl.

Wish I had kept better care of the Envoy, was really a cute car (no sniggers
from the peanut gallery please, that means you G. Goff).

Anyhoo, the girl was glued to a 3"X4" or so bit of 3/8 plywood which allowed
it to stand on the Envoy shelf but not the Vanagon dash. I removed the
plywood and I tried 3M double sided tape on the hollow base of the girl, no
go. I finally had best success with polyurethane construction adhesive
gluing a quarter sized rare earth magnet (Lee Valley Tools) to the base of
her feet.

The material this girl was made of was some sort of fibrous Plaster of
Paris. After almost 40 years in a car she is getting frail (osteoporosis?),
her nose is chipped and she leans to one side. She also lost her grass skirt
a long time ago but my Aunt made a fetching little red crotchet number for
her.

Alistair

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'82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94
albell@uvic.ca
http://members.shaw.ca/albell

on 13/7/03 9:02 pm, Johnny DeVilla wrote:

> Ok this might be off in the left field, but it is important stuff. I
> have a hula girl in my Westy (like all good Westies should). And it
> won't stick to the dash. I have cleaned the area with alcohol then
> stuck her on..... few weeks later bam poor hula is lying on the ground.
> I keep changing out the tape on the bottom with double stick super
> adhesive tape.
> Has any one come across this?
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