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
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> 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
>