I'd already stripped and renovated the existing interior of my Continental, involving unpicking hundreds of 40 year old staples and repeatedly scrubbing/washing the fabric. The '73 fabric is specific to that year and can be REALLY grubby. Hopefully seeing this fellow owners will realise that even really filthy fabric can be brought back to life! My interior is largely OG but was missing some cushions. Over the past year I've sourced the missing side seat back 'wedge' cushion and the curved upper bed cushion on Ebay for reasonable prices. The last missing bit was the stool. I've followed a few of these on Ebay and they have had broken legs (easy fix really), ripped and holed fabric and horrible DIY covers. They were also stupidly priced. A couple of weeks back a potential stool appeared online which I watched and didn't sell. It was up for £95 starting price. I emailed the seller and made an offer but they relisted it....so to cut a long story short I got it and organised a courier to pick it up and paid £85 all in. Much better than the £150 plus prices I've seen! When it arrived it looked like this; The cover was (as described in the advert) filthy. Not surprising after 40 years of camping/garage/attic storage. Having already seen how well this material scrubs up I was undaunted. Westfalia really knew what they were doing with this stuff! Having already unpicked the rest of the interior last year, the stool was a breeze! a small screwdriver and some pliers are all you need. I wouldn't suggest you employ the help of a 5 year old but she wanted to get involved so it took a bit longer than planned ;-) Once off (and if this is the rock and roll bed there are LOADS of rusty staples!) you can appreciate just how dirty it is, the edge is folded where it's stapled and you get a glimpse of what it used to look like! I didn't want to over do it so rather than repaint the legs I gave them a t-cut and a polish and cleaned up the feet. Now came the washing. Having done this before I knew that this fabric is really robust. Nothing special really, I used non-bio on an intensive cycle and threw in some stain removing liquid. This got some of the dirt out. Then I hand scrubbed it using a stiff brush several times and rinsed it out again. I let it dry naturally and then put it back on the stool. I replaced the staples (just remember how the corners go). I used a 'normal' staple gun (I'm a primary school teacher and therefore a fully qualified staple gun user!) The results are pretty good! I'm just missing the strap to secure the stool but it's a snug fit so I'm not overly concerned!
