Rare Interiors

[Pilkie]

Saw these!
Bit much for a set thats got a big rip in them "drivers one!"

 

[jay]

£15..dont think thats dear...mind I had a few sets a few years ago and they went for £60 to £200 for a pristine set

 

[Pilkie]

Was reffering to his £50 buy now!!, even still at £15 with 2 of them as good as knackered.
Its only really 1/2 a set and you would have to have the other matching 1/2 to make it a worth while buy,or a speculative buy and hope you can find a good drivers one!! ???

 

[NickDunning]

Time to start another hare running I think. What is your favourite rare interior option?

To start us off here is a TC that's just appeared on ebay with the ultra rare brushed nylon interior option. As a series 1 1/2 this option would have been a carry over from the S1 option list (S1 1/2's had S1 seats) and predated the more usual cloth interiors.

Red TC

Chris

Rarest I've ever seen: Red Ambla flatpleat in a scrapper at Jim Brown's....or Buffalo (very dark brown) in Denis Chick's magnificent 1966 2000TC.

Favourite: I had a 1973 2000SC with Bronze Herringbone cloth (orange facings, bronze sides). Loved it. Wish I'd kept in when I sold the otherwise not great car on.

Cheers
Nick

 

[NickDunning]

Time to start another hare running I think. What is your favourite rare interior option?

To start us off here is a TC that's just appeared on ebay with the ultra rare brushed nylon interior option. As a series 1 1/2 this option would have been a carry over from the S1 option list (S1 1/2's had S1 seats) and predated the more usual cloth interiors.

Red TC

Chris

Bronze flatpleat Herringbone. Lovely



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[chrisyork]

There's a thing - I thought herringbone only came in Sandalwood and all the other early fabrics were brushed nylon like the black. Anyone know what the full range of pre boxpleat fabrics was?

Saw an interesting 3500S this weekend. M registered '74 and mechanically to full S2 spec (ie late type fusebox and loom). But it had S1 type front seats with the upholstered back. I though they'd ceased by mid '72, certainly long before M reg. Every reason from its history to believe they were original. Mind you it was a very rare interior colour - Mango - with an arctic White and Huntsman exterior. Is it possible a rare interior colour might simply have lurked about at the factory waiting to be ordered and so changed over to S2 style seats much later than normal? Looked like a previous owner had attempted re-couloring which had sent the Mango rather red, but you could see the true garishness shining through from odd areas. I liked it.

Chris

 

[NickDunning]

There's a thing - I thought herringbone only came in Sandalwood and all the other early fabrics were brushed nylon like the black. Anyone know what the full range of pre boxpleat fabrics was?

Saw an interesting 3500S this weekend. M registered '74 and mechanically to full S2 spec (ie late type fusebox and loom). But it had S1 type front seats with the upholstered back. I though they'd ceased by mid '72, certainly long before M reg. Every reason from its history to believe they were original. Mind you it was a very rare interior colour - Mango - with an arctic White and Huntsman exterior. Is it possible a rare interior colour might simply have lurked about at the factory waiting to be ordered and so changed over to S2 style seats much later than normal? Looked like a previous owner had attempted re-couloring which had sent the Mango rather red, but you could see the true garishness shining through from odd areas. I liked it.

Chris

Herringbone initially came in Sandalwood only (1972 model year) - then for the 1973 model year you could theorectically get black and the lovely bronze version. I think that was it.

The flatpleat seats didn't cease until approx September 1973, co-inciding with the introduction of the 2200 (for the 1974 model year) So you can get an 'M' reg car with flat pleat. I used to have a November 1973 registered V8 (high compression) with flat pleat.

If the car had the low compression V8 engine it will have boxpleat.

White/Mango/Huntsman - lovely - the Huntsman bit is unusual.

Mango is horrible on other colours, but goes well with white.

Cheers
Nick

 

[cdnp6]

Here's an unusual interior of a canadian p6 - Seems to be a mix of pieces. Buffalo door cards, bins and headrests. Also vinyl seats with cloth inserts. Check out the upholstery tacks on rear of front seats.
http://www.guildclassiccars.com/1967_ro ... index.html