I have a couple of black dashes.

Jim

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Ralph Meyermann <ralphmeyermann@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I painted my dash with a flexible by SEM products. 3 yrs no issues
>
> Velma 82 1.9L AAZ TD Westy
> On Nov 17, 2014 2:38 PM, "Stuart MacMillan" <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You are right!  I just looked up an old photo of my ’84 and had never
> > noticed.  Now I’m tempted to remove the padding from my ’85, but I’m sure
> > that would be a disaster.
> >
> >
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> >
> >
> > From: JordanVw@aol.com [mailto:JordanVw@aol.com]
> > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 12:29 PM
> > To: stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Dash improvement?
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 11/17/2014 2:05:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM writes:
> >
> > Where did you get that, or did you remove the padded dash cover?  Padded
> > dashes have been required in the US since at least the ‘70s.
> >
> >
> >
> > only '85 up vanagons had the big dash pad with flat tray area.   unless
> it
> > was a wolfsburg edition.    all other earlier vanagons just had a tiny
> pad
> > at the edge.
> >
>