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Offline Blazin

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Check these out.
« on: March 04, 2008, 04:55:20 pm »
My Lumina Van has the typical saggy cloth headliner. I saw these at Wal Mart, cheap. I bought two packages and they work slicker than you know what on a door knob. I wouldn't use them on a show rig, but for an every day driver or work rigthey are perfect.

http://www.headsuponline.com/product-details.php?id=10
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« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2008, 04:56:42 pm »
Kinda hard to see how they work... do you have pix?
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« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2008, 06:02:34 pm »
i like the old thumb tacks... nothing like sitting on a thumb tack in the morning on ur way to work...Gets u ready for putting up with ur boss ;)
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« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2008, 06:05:55 pm »
I tried the thumb tack bit. Put one in, put second one in, put third one in, first one falls out, repeat.
They are basically a cork screw type deal with a little clear plastic head on them. Stick it in a little and turn it till it stops, or the headliner is tight.
 I like how it says on the package and the web site " For temporary repair " Yeah right, temporary until it goes to the bone yard! Think that will be a while for my van. When I am done with it on the road I want to put it on a Blazer frame and wheel the wee out of it!
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« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2008, 06:06:01 pm »
My best friends old man owned an upholstery shop when we were growing up and we spent alot of time there I have seen everything from thumb tacks to fishing lures to duct tape trying to hold up the headliner.  The funniest thing was one dude had a truck like ours and was using those toothpicks from Sonic that have the little plastic things on the end holding his headliner up.

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« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2008, 12:34:53 am »
Ha that's what we call Valley Riggin around here ;D The Valley being Seattle's Rainier Valley Ghetto where I grew up, and quite a few of my fine neighbors have used so many of what has been said on here, even these Cork-Screw Pins :D

Their Replacement Headliner Material is cheap and very easy to use... I used some when it first came out(98/00) in my Bucket '86 Park Avenue, to get rid of the duct tape & thumb tack job it had when I first got the car!!!
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« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2008, 06:04:50 am »
My Lumina will never get a new head liner. That would put my total investment into it over the last 3 years up over $2,000. That would be simply unacceptable!!! Besides when I am done with it I want to mount it on a K5 Blazer frame, and wheel the wee out of it.
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« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2008, 07:22:37 pm »
you can go to your local walmart in the fabric section you can get a pack of like 10 for 97 cents and there the same thing you showed, they work pretty good better then any tack or pin

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« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2008, 07:36:31 pm »
they do work a LOT better then any stick pin seeing as that these twist in they don't fall out on their own.

I ran the cheapo's from the crafts section on my camaro for years, never had a problem with any of them.
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« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2008, 12:59:00 am »
I got mine at Wally World. I just put the link up so I didn't have to explain them and say they are at Wal Mart.
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« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2008, 11:21:51 am »
So when you look up you see a bunch of these white daisies, huh?   Nice.
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« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2008, 12:50:44 pm »
On my beretta i used to have i just stuck pennies up there and they worked great

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« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2008, 01:30:21 pm »
yea you see white or clear like mine or you just paint them.
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« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2008, 07:44:03 pm »
Pennies?
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« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2008, 08:11:37 pm »
yeah i just pushed the pennies up in there sideways and they stuck into the foam behind the cloth part of the headliner. it kept it off my head anyway.