haruspex wrote:
Do you have any more pictures of the seat upholstery? I like the funky Mikado patterns. My truck has the white and blue knit vinyl that was offered in '78, I love it but I am slightly envious of the plaids I see on some of the trucks.
Sure, here ya go. The color values are kind of all over the place; the first photo captures the actual color best. As you might notice, the fabric has become very weak. A rough vacuuming would probably ruin it.
Anybody have any other variations? It almost seems like different regions of the US had their own upholstery package selections, although the parts catalog and sales brochures don't support this claim.





I've spent a few hours clicking about for a suitable replacement, but as it turns out, nobody on the internet agrees upon any single nomenclature when it comes to descriptions of plaid textiles. Who'd'a thunk?
Just this morning, though, a guy named Doug at SMS Auto, a classic car restoration house up near Portland, OR told me that they've 'got something like that'. I'll post an update when the sample arrives late this week.
http://www.sms-auto.com/My plan for the rework is to cut the existing material off of the seat, decouple it from the faux-leather trim and create a flat pattern for replication. The foam in the seat is pretty gritty, and will probably also need to be changed. I've had some solid heavy-duty upholstery work done here in East LA by a friend's mother who sews for a living, and I think I'm just gonna take the finished patterns back to her to reintegrate with the faux-leather(if I don't trash it during removal), as opposed to taking it to a proper upholstery shop and spending the $. If I fuck that up, or, as is probably the case, the stock material is impossible to reuse, I'm going to go all-out and switch to leather trim and bust out the big needles.