Headliner

[Maeter]

I have searched for, and discovered, many threads discussing headliners, but mostly pointing out issues or problems with the current offering. In the meantime, someone painted my original ivory/grey headliner black, which now means I need to replace it. In that light, and with the understanding that the perfect one might not exist, which one should I purchase for a 1968 911L and from whom?

Thank you in advance for your replies, or advice on how to restore back to ivory/grey,

Pascal

[csbush]

I just got one from Autos international. Looks perfectly fine to me. Autobahn and Heritage are also good sources
Chuck

[NorthernThrux]

That’s where I got mine too, but the hole pattern is wrong, as has been described ad naseum in a different thread (http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...vory+headliner). Square instead of hexagonal. Andrea made one with tje right pattern but is was too thick and the seals would go over it properly. Alan at Canford was tooling up to make one several years ago bit never heard back on the progress of that.

Ravi

[andrea70]

Ehm...
Sorry
But after more than 100 headliners sold, nobody said to me it was too thick.
And , after all, thickness means resistence...



Ciao
Andrea

[LiveFromNY]

I had one of Andrea's headliners installed and my installer didn't say anything about it being too thick. Looks great.

[andrea70]

Thank you mate!

[NorthernThrux]

I loved the headliner, but Robert Gross was my installer and he said it was too thick for the clips and seals and as the seals hardened they would split. We tried a bunch of different seals too, but no luck. So he didn't want to put it in after wrestling with it for quite a while. So I don't know what the deal was, because I really had my heart set on using Andrea's beautiful piece, but just reporting my experience.

[joegt3cup]

Being a 68 911L you might have an elephant hide interior, if so the headliner is unique and to my knolwedge not available.

[Maeter]

No Elephant skin interior, I think those were only on original European cars and mine is a US model. But still not clear what I should do between wring colour, wrong holes, too thick, etc etc. You would think just putting in or restoring a headliner wouldn’t require so much thinking!

Do we know when black headliners became available?

[raspritz]

My '69T is tangerine with black interior. I thought the ivory headliner and black/ivory sunvisors looked ridiculous; they should be black! I looked for and found a black headliner and all-black '69-style sunvisors somewhere, had them installed (no issues per the installer), and everybody is gaga over how great it all looks. Unless you are planning to show on the lawn at Pebble Beach, who cares about color, holes, pattern, thickness, etc.?