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Subject:Re: 1990 GL curtains
From:EMZ
Date:Sun, 30 Aug 1998 23:35:15 -0400

Thanks for the info. I would like to make them
myself but I don't have a wife and I'm sure
if I got one(a wife) her costs would be more expensive
than just buying them...... Is it friday?

            Eric                   86-VW4x4
            vw4x4@fyi.net          72-240z
            Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler

On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, M. Ryan Fryar wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> I had two replies, they were both internet addresses to look up.
>
> www.zproducts.com click on "Van Camper Kits", also www.bus-boys.com
>
> I found that you can buy the whole curtain set-up for $150-160, or you can
> buy a kit with hardware and pattern for sewing your own curtains for
> $50-60.  I think I'll buy the pattern kit, and try to get my wife to use
> that sewing machine she said she'd use and never has.
>
> good luck,
> Ryan (90 GL)
> ----------
> > From: EMZ <vw4x4@fyi.net>
> > To: M. Ryan Fryar <fryarm@EOU.EDU>
> > Subject: Re: 1990 GL curtains
> > Date: Thursday, August 27, 1998 8:22 PM
> >
> >
> >      Did you get any good info?
> >             Eric                   86-VW4x4
> >             vw4x4@fyi.net          72-240z
> >             Pittsburgh, PA USA     1936-Chrysler
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, M. Ryan Fryar wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I just bought, and have recently slept in a 1990 GL.  The bed was
> actually
> > > quite comfortable, but now I see the reason for curtains.
> > >
> > > I looked up references in the archives, but there was nothing that
> quite
> > > answered my curtain question.
> > >
> > > That is-- Has anyone made curtains for a 90 GL, and if so, is there one
> > > among us with measurements for the cloth?  I can always go out and
> fling my
> > > tape measure about, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I will benefit
> > > from someone else's mistakes/experience.
> > >
> > > Any advice and or measurements from a been there done that
> curtain-maker?
> > > I would like to make it look "factory" if at all possible.  Also, I
> wish to
> > > avoid screwing sheet metal screws into wiring or ducting- are there
> places
> > > I shouldn't screw into in a vanagon wall near the windows?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Ryan Fryar  (90 GL, as yet unnamed but my wife is working on that)
> > >
> >
>

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