Let's keep our focus on Vanagon upholstery. Lest we start having people writing things like, "Well, Elizabeth TAYLOR was a woman!" 

"I came. I sew. I made my own interior for my Vanagon." That would be more like it.

;-)

BenT
Mod

On Jan 31, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> You're lucky... at least I have a wife and mother who are good sewers
> (hey, that's probably why they use the word "seamstress") to ask
> questions of, but as they both say, "you're doing things now that we
> don't know how to do."
> 
> : )
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Joe T. <vanagon85@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is a very timely topic...
>> 
>> My mother-in-law and I are heading to the fabric store next weekend to pick
>> out the new interior for my Vanagon.  She's offered to teach me how to do
>> the whole thing. I'm very excited to get into upholstery and to learn a new
>> skill!
>> 
>> Joe T.
>> 
>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> ---- Mark Dearing <VWBrain@AOL.COM> wrote:
>>>> In a message dated 1/29/2011 10:40:34 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>>> fonman4277@COMCAST.NET writes:
>>>> 
>>>> I am one  of seven siblings
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> hey david  I am also 0ne of seven.  my father flew P38s during  WW2  ,
>>>> became chief of construction on the N&W railway , got into VW  buses
>>> cause it
>>>> was the only thing that could carry all of the family.  he  is the only
>>> person
>>>> I know that has flipped 2 buses. Course we had to learn how  to fix them,
>>> I
>>>> rebuilt my first engine at 14 , was driving them even earlier  around the
>>>> neighborhood and woods. Unlike jeff I really miss my father, he would
>>>  love
>>>> my vanagon westy. later  mark d
>>> 
>>> Well, unlike most on this list, I am not deep into mechanics, but the
>>> basics were required when we were kids, and I required them of my daughter.
>>>  but I go to a pro for anything beyond basics.  I do carry a tool kit with
>>> me, and by having the camper in tip top shape on departure for a trip, I can
>>> keep it going and usually get out of a jam (haven't really had much in the
>>> way of a jam, just some concerns that have never gotten me stuck somewhere
>>> for long).  But getting into transmissions and engine innards, or even r&r
>>> major parts, I generally don't do it.  When I needed a radiator, I had it
>>> done at a shop.  I'll be adding an external oil cooler from "ten cent life
>>> before summer," and I don't know right now whether I'll do it myself or hire
>>> it out.  I do have a great guy who doesn't mind that I do a few things
>>> myself who does my heavy stuff.  He will even advise me on things I do
>>> myself.
>>> 
>>> mcneely
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Joe T.
>> '85 Wolfsburg Westy Subie 2.2
>>