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Autosleeper stripe

Posted: 16 Apr 2020, 14:45
by dbz864
Hi has anybody got a autosleeper with the original stripes on, if yeh, could you please measure the width.from either side of gold pin stripe ,ie the maximum width inc the pin stripes. Many thanks adam

Re: Autosleeper stripe

Posted: 17 Apr 2020, 09:10
by jrt
From the top to the centre white stripe. Brown 6mm, 4mm Gold, 4mm Brown, 4mm Gold, 57mmBrown and 7mm white.
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David.

Re: Autosleeper stripe

Posted: 17 Apr 2020, 14:06
by vwsween
I don't agree with that, or maybe there is slight variation with age. The stripes are either one eighth inch or one quarter inch not metric. Also no brown above the top gold stripe. I can send you an old close up photo of the stripe from a 1986 if you give me an email address by pm.

Re: Autosleeper stripe

Posted: 17 Apr 2020, 17:00
by 937carrera
I'll try and do a correlation tomorrow when I am with the van

Re: Autosleeper stripe

Posted: 17 Apr 2020, 17:26
by vwsween
Ok I can see your photo now, that is not the same as others I can see in Google Images. I did visit the factory about 15 years back. At the time you could still buy the edge stripe which consisted of gold/brown/gold three eighths of an inch wide in total and it was the gold that was at the edge. They did say there was some variation though, for example the outer gold strip could be a quarter of an inch rather than an eighth.

Re: Autosleeper stripe

Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 06:55
by Jeff J
no sizes but https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-Volkswage ... 2703440998" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; or https://forum.club8090.co.uk/viewtopic. ... 44e5aba0a5" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Autosleeper stripe

Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 10:58
by jrt
A while back i gave the info to someone (Jim Painter? ) who was restoring a van and he painted the stripes on, it looked brilliant.
David.

Re: Autosleeper stripe

Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 15:14
by kevtherev
Yep only the gold pin stripes are decals
The rest is paint.

Re: Autosleeper stripe

Posted: 18 Apr 2020, 16:17
by 937carrera
Does this help ?

If it does, can you download it and let me know, then I can release the space on my storage - no attachments allowed in General Chat

Of course if this was moved to bodywork, I could upload it into the thread

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Re: Autosleeper stripe

Posted: 20 Apr 2020, 20:54
by dbz864
Thankyou for all the replies ,all sorted now,big help.thanks adam