| dfoster367 | -- 06-17-2021 @ 7:37 PM |
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Can anyone suggest where I can purchase the original style interior seat kits?
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| TomO | -- 06-18-2021 @ 7:56 AM |
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Try SMS fabrics or Cartouche. If neither of them has a kit, you will have to find a shop that can do the work and order the material. Tom
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| woodiewagon46 | -- 06-18-2021 @ 9:08 AM |
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If you are a member of the A.A.C.A. I would search their website about members comments regarding SMS before dealing with them. The guy to ask and I'm sure he will offer a suggestion is Kube. He is he go to guy on '39/'40 Ford. Are you looking for an interior that will stand up to V-8 Club scrutiny?
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| kubes40 | -- 06-18-2021 @ 5:22 PM |
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Dfoster, I am not impressed with Cartouche. However, with LB gone, there are few choices. I might suggest you find a good upholstery shop and have them sew the interior. A wagon is quite simple actually. SMS is a decent source for the hides. Hirsch is in my opinion, the best source. I'd suggest at bare minimum three hides. I purchase four as I'd rather have too much than not enough. Matching later is a tough at best. Mike "Kube" Kubarth
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| 42wagon | -- 06-19-2021 @ 3:23 AM |
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If you are going for a car that you will enter in fine point judging you need to do some research. In 1942 Ford used genuine leather for the wearing surfaces of the seats and artificial leather for the rest of it. But there is a catch they used one color for the sides and another color for the backs. Not so different in color that you couldn't get by with all genuine leather but enough different that a judge who knows station wagons won't catch it. Too bad LB isn't still here as they knew what was correct. Also if you have to redo the top the correct width and maybe color material is no longer available.
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