Itinerant Air-Cooled

Amskeptic wrote:

Hi Colin - I think the front emblems for late Westfalias from the factory where white, not chrome. Not sure you care, or if I am right...

That Westy is lucky to have crossed paths with you!

Mr Blotto wrote: Hi Colin - the front emblems for Westfalias were white, not chrome. Not sure you care,

Oh, I care. What the h*#%!. How on Earth? All the Westies I have visited . . . all these weeks of owning this one . . . all that Bus Depot shipping. And it is supposed to be white? So, tomorrow, I shall get the old emblem and try to sand off/scuff the chrome and paint it white.
Colin

I always loved the original Westfalia pop top canvas with that row of tassels hanging from the front.

Any ideas what those tassles were for? Wind abatement? Decoration? Satellite TV reception?

Robbie

Amskeptic wrote:

Mr Blotto wrote: Hi Colin - the front emblems for Westfalias were white, not chrome. Not sure you care,

Oh, I care. What the h*#%!. How on Earth? All the Westies I have visited . . . all these weeks of owning this one . . . all that Bus Depot shipping. And it is supposed to be white? So, tomorrow, I shall get the old emblem and try to sand off/scuff the chrome and paint it white.
Colin

I have one for you, no need to paint the one you have.

As Sylvester's photo shows, late Westy emblems were off-white and plastic. The color is Pastel White, just like the bumpers. Beware there are repros out there cast in pure white.

Colin, I thought you just preferred the shiny chrome emblem, so didn't want to be an ass by saying anything before.

White plastic vs metal chrome...sounds like a late Bay.

yes, the chrome VW just ruins the whole Westy resto for me ;). Colin needs to fix this wrong!

It shall come to pass . . . after I get the sliding door back on.
Colin

Okay, so I hate to bring this up, but shouldn't the wheels be white as well?

SlowLane wrote:Okay, so I hate to bring this up, but shouldn't the wheels be white as well?

No, silver rims

Just leave the door off you get better ventilation.

phaedrus76 wrote: Colin, I thought you just preferred the shiny chrome emblem, so didn't want to be an ass by saying anything before.

You calling me an ASS ???

Amskeptic wrote:

weisswurst wrote:

Amskeptic wrote:
When I hit the Georgia border, temperatures had dropped below freezing and the winds were mighty gusty.
Colin

Oh no! I made it back from my trip and found this in the building!!
Jeff

T-t-t-h-h-a-a-t-t's th-th-the onununuh, yes it-t-t-'s c-c-c-o-o-o-l-l-d-d-d-d,
C-c-c-o-l-in-n-n

Dunno if you are a cordless tool aficionado, but it appears that most of the big cordless tool makers have added battery-heated jackets to their line-ups. Might help, but they're a bit pricy ($200 range, plus the battery and charger if you haven't got one.)
I just noticed this after drooling over some nice Makita cordless tools.

Blotto wrote:You calling me an ASS?

No-one here is judging you, man, but you did sell your Westy. Any recriminations that exist are likely to be of the self-inflicted type.

SlowLane wrote:Okay, so I hate to bring this up, but shouldn't the wheels be white as well?

No, ha haHA haaaaaaaa, no. ALL perforated drop disk wheels were silver from the factory, the thinnest silver ever painted, it would rub off the Rabbits after three car washes.

I am painting my emblem with Rustoleum Fusion plastic white because it is a plastic emblem and it is close enough to L90D, and I hope relatively rock chip resistant.

Meanwhile:

Rust Eradication






Horrendous rust under the window along the sliding door track and under the track where a half-rear fender was barely welded on, smashed and dented, and burned weld joints and bondo'd to better let the rust build up:




I spun up the dremel cutting wheel and went to town:




Painted the undersides of the side covers, laboriously removed the paint overspray on the beading and the sliding door seal:




Rebuilt the Clavinova CTsomething8. It had suffered a traumatic coffee spill some long time ago and the keys were gumming against each other:







Discovered three hours after this shot and a zillion screws that dog hair ruins the contact strip millisecond comparison circuitry enough to FULL VOLUME the F sharp which totally ruined my efforts to learn Cold Play's Clocks.
Tore it back down, vacuumed the contact strip, and it now plays very nicely:




Oh yeah, Overspray Eradication. That yellow hinge has irritated me every day I've spent with this car:





Followed some online sliding door hinge rebuild tutorial:




Now the rear and the right side of the car are almost factory-looking.
Colin