<VV> Restoration - DIY is $atisfying

[J R Read_HML]

Tony,

I congratulate you on your eptness (a word?).  I've never done a headliner. 
Only had converts and/or a Rampside.  Neither uses them.  Now, would I 
tackle one?  Maybe, but more likely to do so with the oversight of a close 
friend who owns an upholstery shop.  This for guidance purposes and possibly 
fallback position if I were to screw it up.

Later, JR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Underwood" <tony.underwood at cox.net>
>
> Last time a headliner got done here was the evening before the Ft
> Monroe Virginia 'Vair Fair...  we removed the somewhat
> ratty-destitching-itself original, used it as a pattern on a big
> sheet of light blue upholstery vinyl, stitched it all up and
> installed it back in the car the night before the show...
>
> ...the headliner is all a single piece, carefully measured out,
> taking into account the extra material for the rods, being simple
> folds in the material sewn together.   It fit nicely, still in the
> car now and holding up quite well, and is likely much less likely to
> unravel than the original... used upholstery threat to stitch it all
> together.   You could probably yank on it with a fist-grip and it
> won't come out of the car.
>
>
> Yes, it was very satisfying to have done it at the last minute and
> make it work out the way it did, from scratch, from a single uncut
> sheet of material from "Joanne Fabrics" at the mall.
>
>
>
> tony..