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Hello everybody,
Now that my vette is back from the painter I'm looking more into the interior. I'm still bussy with the paint and rebuilding the car but it never hurts to look forward in time. In the fall the vette will be going to the interiorbuilder and it will get a new custom carpet and everything will be wrapped in leather. Of course it all is nice when it's new but it still has to be nice after 10 years.
My interiorbuilder is a guy that took over the company from his dad which his grandfather started so he has the knowledge and feeling for it. But I like to look around and here some different ideas/opinions from everybody.
To begin with the carpet, because I changed and raised the center console the standard carpet will not fit anymore. A costum carpet will fit perfect but takes a lot of time to make and money (around 1300 euro's of work, excl. the carpet itself). Then I have two options, to go with standard carpet which will be an extra 200 euro's (1200 total) on material or go with wool carpet which will be an extra 500 euro's (1700 total). So for only an extra 300 euro's I'll get a full wool carpet. A wool carpet is 100% black and very soft but I don't know the downside. Does anybody here know the downside of wool carpet? Normally you'll only find it in the top cars like Bentley, RR and Aston Martin etc. Will this carpet fade color or become fluffy?
In the picture from left to right: left is the original carpet that came out of the car, in the middel aftermarket carpet, to the right is the wool carpet.
Then the leather. Because I live in Holland we have easy acces to leather from England, Germany, Italy or the Norway and Finland. Good quality for a "nice" price. The color will be a magnolia / vanilla color so very light. I hear from a lot of people that normal trousers (wrangler or levi) will wear out the leather and impossible to clean. Is this true?
In the picture you see four leather samples. The pictures are from a Callaway Speedster with the interior color I really like. If taken this picture to see which color will be closest to the picture.
The numbers:
1. UK Hide Co. Connolly Autolux serie. Number 4493 (no print in leather)
2. UK Hide Co. Nappa serie. Helios (no print in leather)
3. Forgot the company.. Magnolia Number 33530 (light print in leather)
4. UK Hide Co. Connolly Autocalf serie. Number 7601. (light print in leather)
I've seen some expensive car's been cleaned here so I hope some regular car cleaners can shim in to chear there knowledge about these materials
This is a picture with the color combination photoshoped into the vette.
Thanks,
Groeten Peter
Now that my vette is back from the painter I'm looking more into the interior. I'm still bussy with the paint and rebuilding the car but it never hurts to look forward in time. In the fall the vette will be going to the interiorbuilder and it will get a new custom carpet and everything will be wrapped in leather. Of course it all is nice when it's new but it still has to be nice after 10 years.
My interiorbuilder is a guy that took over the company from his dad which his grandfather started so he has the knowledge and feeling for it. But I like to look around and here some different ideas/opinions from everybody.
To begin with the carpet, because I changed and raised the center console the standard carpet will not fit anymore. A costum carpet will fit perfect but takes a lot of time to make and money (around 1300 euro's of work, excl. the carpet itself). Then I have two options, to go with standard carpet which will be an extra 200 euro's (1200 total) on material or go with wool carpet which will be an extra 500 euro's (1700 total). So for only an extra 300 euro's I'll get a full wool carpet. A wool carpet is 100% black and very soft but I don't know the downside. Does anybody here know the downside of wool carpet? Normally you'll only find it in the top cars like Bentley, RR and Aston Martin etc. Will this carpet fade color or become fluffy?
In the picture from left to right: left is the original carpet that came out of the car, in the middel aftermarket carpet, to the right is the wool carpet.
Then the leather. Because I live in Holland we have easy acces to leather from England, Germany, Italy or the Norway and Finland. Good quality for a "nice" price. The color will be a magnolia / vanilla color so very light. I hear from a lot of people that normal trousers (wrangler or levi) will wear out the leather and impossible to clean. Is this true?
In the picture you see four leather samples. The pictures are from a Callaway Speedster with the interior color I really like. If taken this picture to see which color will be closest to the picture.
The numbers:
1. UK Hide Co. Connolly Autolux serie. Number 4493 (no print in leather)
2. UK Hide Co. Nappa serie. Helios (no print in leather)
3. Forgot the company.. Magnolia Number 33530 (light print in leather)
4. UK Hide Co. Connolly Autocalf serie. Number 7601. (light print in leather)
I've seen some expensive car's been cleaned here so I hope some regular car cleaners can shim in to chear there knowledge about these materials
This is a picture with the color combination photoshoped into the vette.
Thanks,
Groeten Peter
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