Best canvas top?
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Best canvas top?
Which is the best canvas top for my MB?I bought one in 2006 of cotton in São Paulo(ORecruta) and it shortened and discoloured.
Jeep Willys MB DoD dec,16 1942 s/n:196275
Dodge B3-B 4x2 1952 s/n:90099559
CCKW 353 Banjo 1944 s/n:309623
Dodge B3-B 4x2 1952 s/n:90099559
CCKW 353 Banjo 1944 s/n:309623
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Re: Best canvas top?
I don't know about the cost of importing stuff from the EU, England (still) in this case, to Brazil.
I have used, and still use, a full tarpaulin cover for my 1945 Dodge WC51made by John & Mary Worthing since I bought it in 1993 (!). I have applied new water proofing once, a few years ago, but otherwise it's holding up fine. The sun has bleached it over the years,of course, but otherwise it's in perfect condition.
Enclosed are two photos showing my Dodge with the Worthing canvas. Still in good shape. If you look close enough you'll see two things: A The Braziliam Flag, and B/ The markings on the bumper for an ambulance belonging to the FEB, Força Expedicionária Brasileira, and C/ The knickname painted on top of the radiator "Zé Carioca", the friendly little parrot from Rio de Janiero (where, it just so happens, the FEB medical unit came from)
https://flic.kr/p/CeEX8w
https://www.flickr.com/gp/10293301@N02/0J90M1
http://www.canvasco.com/
Kindest regards
Goran Noren
Lidingo, Suécia
I have used, and still use, a full tarpaulin cover for my 1945 Dodge WC51made by John & Mary Worthing since I bought it in 1993 (!). I have applied new water proofing once, a few years ago, but otherwise it's holding up fine. The sun has bleached it over the years,of course, but otherwise it's in perfect condition.
Enclosed are two photos showing my Dodge with the Worthing canvas. Still in good shape. If you look close enough you'll see two things: A The Braziliam Flag, and B/ The markings on the bumper for an ambulance belonging to the FEB, Força Expedicionária Brasileira, and C/ The knickname painted on top of the radiator "Zé Carioca", the friendly little parrot from Rio de Janiero (where, it just so happens, the FEB medical unit came from)
https://flic.kr/p/CeEX8w
https://www.flickr.com/gp/10293301@N02/0J90M1
http://www.canvasco.com/
Kindest regards
Goran Noren
Lidingo, Suécia
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Re: Best canvas top?
Thanks Goran.
Jeep Willys MB DoD dec,16 1942 s/n:196275
Dodge B3-B 4x2 1952 s/n:90099559
CCKW 353 Banjo 1944 s/n:309623
Dodge B3-B 4x2 1952 s/n:90099559
CCKW 353 Banjo 1944 s/n:309623
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Re: Best canvas top?
I agree with you Goran, Worthing canvas for me is the best. So is the smell of it.
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Re: Best canvas top?
Você é bem vindo Fernando
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Re: Best canvas top?
Jeep Willys MB DoD dec,16 1942 s/n:196275
Dodge B3-B 4x2 1952 s/n:90099559
CCKW 353 Banjo 1944 s/n:309623
Dodge B3-B 4x2 1952 s/n:90099559
CCKW 353 Banjo 1944 s/n:309623
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Re: Best canvas top?
I am not sure about the shipping costs being much of a factor from the UK to the USA....but Farrell Fox right here on G503 is making some fantastic canvas these days for the VERY particular collector....the correct hardware being the problem of course!
I have WeeBee Webbing seats, windshield cover and trailer cover and can attest to it being quality canvas....the hardware on the cover is the Lift-the-Dot style though.
I have WeeBee Webbing seats, windshield cover and trailer cover and can attest to it being quality canvas....the hardware on the cover is the Lift-the-Dot style though.
Chuck Lutz
GPW 17963 4/24/42 Chester, PA. USA 20113473 (USA est./Tom W.)
Bantam T3-C 1947
GPW 17963 4/24/42 Chester, PA. USA 20113473 (USA est./Tom W.)
Bantam T3-C 1947
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Re: Best canvas top?
I think the quality for the Worthing (Canvasco) canvas speaks for itself. The canvas on my Dodge WC51 hasn't shrunk more than a fraction when it was brand new and dried out after its first heavy rain, in 1994, that stretched the canvas over the bows, it's kept its form for 24 years (!) The raw leather corner reinforcements are still as good as when the canvas was new. I have replaced some of the manila ropes, but that goes without saying.
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Re: Best canvas top?
Worthing's are very good, but you also have Allied Forces Canvas here in the UK who's IMO Jeeps Top is even better.
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Re: Best canvas top?
i'm not going to bad mouth anyone but there is one outfit in the us that stencils their own name on their WW2 top. nothing like having a first class restoration and its all original and then....someone's advertising
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