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Turned out that Shawn and I ended up stopping for the night on thursday about 20 miles apart along route 77 in North Carolina. I was going to Sonderwerks in Cornelius NC the next morning to check on the Brumos car seats so told Shawn to stop in and see the shop. It's a sweet facility.
The seats are coming along very well. I met their upholstery guy Dale (with the black hat) and I feel good about his enthusiasm for quality and attention to detail. Dave the shop owner is also shown here (with hands on the table).
Dale carefully deconstructed the original seats and insisted they were built at the factory, stripes and all. He points to factory sewing techniques throughout the seats but the most convincing evidence are the staples on the backs of the upper rear seat sections. the leather is stapled to the plywood on the rears, and when the staples were pulled there were no additional staple holes in the plywood. If the stripes were added later that upholsterer would have had to re-staple the new rear headrest section in to the original staple holes in the plywood over a hundred times... didn't happen.
Deborah has also recently confirmed that she ordered the car from the factory with the stripes, this conflicts the statement from a former Brumos employee who thought they were done at a local upholstery shop. My ability to recall details from 35 years ago is very questionable so no harm done.
This now clarifies the COA statement of "leather to sample" I always wondered how black leather was "to sample" ...now I know.
The leather looks great! That script fabric, though...
I'm with you Shawn.
The original black white script that was used in the early 80s is NLA, and the existing fabric was not quite usable due to wear and age. At some point Porsche shifted to the much more subtle black/black (and tan/tan, red/red etc) script...and the black/ black is currently available. This is a compromise I was forced to make....for now. Dale has carefully "engineered" the seats to be pulled apart and have the script sections replaced (without starting over on the entire seat) should I find the correct material.
Moving ahead with the seats now was an intentional calculation that will be apparent very soon...but the hunt is on for one more 40 year old unobtanium porsche product!
I know we talked about it at the time, but it just occurred to me that with computerized looms, it's possible to make small runs of custom fabric: https://www.weft.design/
(I wonder how much it would cost for a run of pascha!)
04-22-2021, 11:04 PM
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