If you're going to use a covering material for door panels I found that a
product called "Kelly Board" is a great product at the right price of about
$1.80 for a 4"x 8' sheet.
Could also be sold in your area as a product called Wind Brace.
It's used between brick veneers and home framing as both a moisture barrier
and a wind brace.
It's about an 1/8 thick and is treated with paraffin on one side that you
can put towards the door with the other side untreated you can contact glue
your vinyl or fabric material right to it.
You can cut it with a good grip on a standard utility knife with a sharp
blade.
It is also bendable enough that you can shape pieces for the headliner of
Vanagons and the more difficult pieces used in headliners for splittie and
bay busses headliners and front kick panels.
The original color is normally gray but I've seen it in various shades of
gray that might not need covering.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Goff" <THX0001@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: inside door panel materials?

> In a message dated 8/16/05 10:17:42 AM, bueses@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
>
> << Westy also used screws w/ little "countersunk" washers to hold the
plywood
> >>
>
> The correct name for this type of washer is "finish" washer.  With each
year,
> finish washers seem to be going the way of the slotted screw head and are
> becoming harder to find.  The scarcity of both is a shame because a
slotted head
> is far superior to a Phillips and, whenever a fastener needs to be
exposed, a
> slotted oval head screw in a finish washer even looks better.  Damn the
> inventor of the electric screw gun.  I once had the occasion to hire an
Old School
> carpenter.  There came a point when he had to drive hundreds of screws
into red
> oak.  He started the work by unleashing the biggest Yankee screwdriver I
had
> ever seen.  I swear it was nearly 3 feet long.  I asked him why he didn't
use
> a screw gun.  "Too slow," was his answer.  Watching him go to town with
that
> big-assed Yankee screw driver made a believer out of me.
>
> George