ChiliPepper Clinic

My sister's van and mine both need the pop top canvas replaced. So we are planning a weekend workshop sometime in May to work on them together. i found this youtube vid of the procedure that i hoped will be helpful. OF course - watching it to the end - it turns into a disaster for the owner who warns people not to try the procedure.





I am adding extra links for reference too

westfalia_canvas_camper_replacement

I first picked up the car bug in Junior High School. I think it was the only thing that made feel like i was a normal boy. I would spend hours reading VW trends magazine and dream about a VW beetle. - My first car love. Sonehow I made the transistion to water cooling [ after I bought my rabbit?] and fell in love with the VW scirocco. I REALLY wanted one. SO summer after my sophmore year - I spotted a rusty, headed-to-the-scrap-heap 1978 Scirocco and bought it for $300 [?] Burned out engine and rusty. [ My father was conviniently out of town that weekend. ]






Tom's first folly. AND IT WAS A FOLLY. After a year in storage with cheap dry gas in the tank [ not good] I spent a whole summer saving money and replacing the engine. My brother in law Joe helped me weld and repaint the entire body and multiple trips to Gary's U pull it provided new[er] seats and interior bits. I was psyched. The car was beautiful. The only problem was it did not run very often. Some strange problem with the fuel system continuously gave me problems and the car ended up being towed alot. The car just hated me. I ended up giving it to a friend after I bought my GTI. [ a wonderful car....btw..]