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Subject:Re: Grab Handles (no, not those things around your waist!)
From:Malcolm Stebbins
Date:Fri, 7 May 1999 13:37:04 -0300

Why not just take the headliner out and cut a new piece of metal
like the old one and fit it in, and pop rivet it in??  Very thin metal
will do and it could be cut with tin snips, this is what I plan to do.
Malcolm S

Jeffrey wrote:

>  Subj:  Re: Grab Handles (no, not those things around your waist!)
>   Date: 99-05-07 11:23:10 EDT
>   From: Oxroad
>   To:   keepsake@PANGEA.CA
>
>   In a message dated 99-05-07 10:31:40 EDT, you write:
>
> >  > Any other suggestions for items that might be useful?
>
>   Yeah. Above the interior light in a Westy over the driver's seat is a
>   metal
>  plate rivited to the top side of the headliner. You'll need that to mount
> the
>  additional interior light over the passenger seat. The interior light for
> the
>  cockpit is mounted differently in Westys as opposed to passenger buses to
> the
>  best of my knowledge. The holes from the factory for passenger bus
>  interior lights are covered by the rails for the Westy headliner. So
>  you'll need the metal plate above the headliner for this installation if
>  you're adding this light. I myself am looking for the same metal plate to
>  do the interior light addition. As for me, no luck yet.
>
>
>   Good luck and thanks
>
>   Jeff
>   83.5 Westy
>   NYC