Hi Bruce,

With regard to vW bus, when has practical or conservative colors been important.  You go for that green.

At The West River Westies event there are a group of green busses that ended up camping together.  They call the area Green Acres. 

If I could pick a color I’d likely go orange but my wife would not be happy.

One good thing about white is I can decorate with colorful flower magnets, and I do!

Eric Caron 

> On Sep 13, 2022, at 1:48 PM, Bruce Todd <beeceetee@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Interesting - thanks for your points.
> 
> BT
> 
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 8:30 AM OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>>        2 issues to consider with Your choice of Hunter Green >
>> 
>> Your Van will be Less Visible to Others on the road &
>> 
>> Hunter Green is one of the best Solar Collectors in the visible spectrum ~
>> 
>> But if You leave the Roof White it will then look like a Gigantic Retro
>> Coleman IceChest ~
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 12 Sep , 2022, at 3:35 PM, Bruce Todd <beeceetee@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Absolutely Gil - the darker the better.  It would be nice to know what
>> the
>>> fabric is - I guessed it was a blend of synthetic and cotton and so went
>>> the route of hot water dying as you can't dye synthetics properly
>> otherwise
>>> - according to the instructions.  More cotton than I thought in the
>> fabric,
>>> as I had to heat the iron to a fairly high setting in order to iron all
>> the
>>> wrinkles out.  You may have noticed that I dried them in the sun and
>> didn't
>>> use a clothes dryer.  Only some colours have the dye for synthetics so
>> keep
>>> an eye on that when and if you purchase the dye.
>>> 
>>> Lastly I used a stabilizer at the end to prevent the dye from running -
>> and
>>> it seemed to work fairly well.  You need at minimum a 5 gallon or 20
>> litre
>>> pot and have to get the temp up to just below boiling.  I roughly weighed
>>> the curtains and they were about 5 lbs or 2 kgs overall .  You need
>>> about 16 to 18 litres per pound of cloth and I ended up using a whole
>>> bottle for each batch - and another whole bottle of stabilizer for each
>>> batch.  This site has lots of good info.
>>> 
>>> https://www.ritdye.com/
>>> 
>>> Bruce
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 2:18 PM Gil Ngai <gil@dayonemedia.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Very inspiring, thank you Bruce.
>>>> I have the same curtains and would love to go to a darker color.
>>>> Do you think it's possible to make them a very dark color? Like
>> charcoal?
>>>> 
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>>>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 1:01 PM Bruce Todd <beeceetee@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Well this is a different kind of repair which I had been putting off
>> for a
>>>>> while.  I think some of you know I am having my van restored and as a
>>>>> result have been living a very boring life without a Vanagon since late
>>>>> January.  Really missed driving it this past summer - no camping, no
>> oil
>>>>> temp readings to share, no last minute mechanical heroics from the
>> side of
>>>>> a highway or driveway and no beer chilled from the deep depths of my
>>>>> Dometic.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Given the van has been such a money pit (in a good way) and all the
>>>>> discussions recently about white elephants, I decided to change the
>> paint
>>>>> colour to hunter green - which will match the tan interior quite
>> nicely.
>>>>> I
>>>>> liked the original white the van was painted, however I wanted to give
>> the
>>>>> van a more distinct and original look.  Anyway, over the past few
>> years I
>>>>> have noticed my tan curtain set starting to fade - primarily on the
>> side
>>>>> exposed to the window - rear window curtains being the worst, and so I
>>>>> decided to dye the curtains a darker colour - from tan to chocolate
>> brown.
>>>>> To do so I used Rit dye for synthetics and cooked the curtains in two
>>>>> batches, in a large 5 gallon pot on the stove for about 40 minutes.  a
>>>>> pretty good result overall - still there are some fade marks but they
>> are
>>>>> not as prevalent as before.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anyway here are some photos which also include the new colour I have
>>>>> selected - ( it is the lighter version of the two greens).
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/t/8EkUiIGAfJOqqUmd [dropbox.com]
>>>>> <
>>>>> 
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.dropbox.com/l/AABeedorab2kDCWN91Gma1fR9BDDS36QRWQ__;!!G4oVokrRG-Im!4fWJ-Z7LaupsuJQPP9ZV7Li4bEYe_JRtXQ9ttW4IPLOLBw8t3AF86uFVGsJ-NteNkZe5nA$
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Bruce
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>>