Except for dusting, I'd leave it alone. The fabric is likely to be fragile,
and the thread stitches holding it to the bows are probably rotten. It's
probably not as dirty as it looks, but rather is faded and yellowed from
age.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kendal Jackson <jacksoti@...>
To: WillysTech@... <WillysTech@...>
Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 2:27 AM
Subject: Re: [WT] willys woodies
From: Kendal Jackson <jacksoti@...>
At 09:19 AM 6/26/99 -0700, you wrote:
From: "Morris G. Hill" <mgh@...>
...it was the "woven paper" coarse
weave stuff that came on all Willys wagons, at least all the ones I saw
from
the 1940's and 1950's. I tried to find the headliner stuff about 12 years
ago, because the original headliner in my 1956 wagon was beyond reasonable
salvage, but lots of calls later I had managed to learn only that this
"woven paper" as they called it in the trade (1) had been cheap and not
very
durable; (2) hadn't been made in years, and (3) besides Willys, had only
been used by Ford in their woodies around the 1940 period.
Cool! this is what appears to be the headliner in my Wagon and it is in
excellent condition. It is very dirty however. Anyone have any ideas on now
to clean it and not destroy it in the process?
I test-drove the1954 6-85 wagon and it ran and looked good, but I couldn't
afford the >$175 the owner wanted for it.
DOH!!
Kendal Jackson
--It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm
really quite busy--
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