Did all 1968 911S come with an elephant hide dash face, door panels and seat inserts?

[MikeyC]

Thanks Scott. My VIN is 00149 if that helps. Photos I can post, for sure, but in answer to Jay's original thread question:
- Did all 1968 911S come with matching elephant hide seats, dash face and door panels? It looks like the answer is 'no' (based on our sample size of 3 above, although we have to be sure that these cars are still in 'as built' spec)
- Did some come with basket weave? Yes
- Did some have mixed patterns like elephant hide face with basket weave seats? Yes

And we now have the additional questions:

- When/why/how was basketweave chosen as opposed to elephant hide?
- If the interior was mixed, what combinations were allowed?

My guess (and I don't want this to sound harsh but I am in the car-building industry so I know how this works, please don't drown me as a heretic!) is the factory made it up as they went along, depending on what the order books looked like and how much stock of each panel/seat/colour combination they had around, but I'd love to be proved wrong and find there was some logic to it!

We should remember that not all of the interior was trimmed lineside. Seats came in from Recaro I understand. Door cards not sure, but would have needed special tooling, so almost certainly batch-made. Dash panels, possibly in-house. Plenty of scope for mix and matching in this transitional year.

I guess some would be to customer specs though, but not sure whether you could specify different seats/dash/doors?

Cheers,

Mike.

[jaldeguer]

Thanks for the info Milou! Mine is 0077 so isconsidered relatively early. Not sure what month the build was though. Do you mind sharing photos of your '68? Trying to get as much reference as possible. I appreciate the help.

Regards,

Jay

[Milou]

Hi Jay,

Here are the links to photos of my 911S 1968:

http://ecurielyford.com/fr/blog/port...2-0rouge-polo/

http://ecurielyford.com/fr/blog/port...2-0rouge-polo/

Hope it helps!

[LongRanger]

Was any 'elephant hide' interior some other color besides black? . . .

http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...light=elephant



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[LongRanger]

. . . like/say --- red, maybe? . . .

http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...light=elephant





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[joegt3cup]

From my learning here and elsewhere, Early 68Ss had elephant hide, but later cars got basket weave. Not sure when changeover happened. My very early S (7/67) has elephant hide dash, doors, but vinyl seats with Pepita inserts. I've not seen elephant hide on dash, and basket weave on doors.

Scott

My car is set up identical to this with a 10/67 build date.

[Milou]

"28 December 1967 – Latest elephant hide interior - 11860141"

According to this thread:
http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...=elephant+hide

[Coupe31]

My Euro spec 911L built 08/67 has Elephant hide on the dash and door cards with pepita seat inserts.

[jaldeguer]

Thanks for the input Mikey. Youre right the ones being sold by the vendors are all basket weave types. I, too am looking for elephant hide door panels and seats if at all possible.

[L.a.Brooks]

My 68 S SWT was built on October 13, 1967. It has Elephant Hide dash, door panels and seats. I doubt they mixed it with basket weave in the same car - but who knows.

68 is a great year for running changes: My car also has an aluminum case engine and early style deck lid/grill both of these were changed by Porsche later in the 68 production run along with the change to basket weave.