Show Your Seats

[steve shea]

The perorations should be diamond not square. Maybe Porsche ran out of the original stuff.

[911int]

The previous owner of my car owned it for 45 years, and consequently it is not only well preserved but also well documented. The COA states the car was equipped with sport seats covered in Black Leatherette/Pepita Houndstooth. The PO went to considerable trouble to source original materials to have the seats recovered. He did this back in 1992, when dwindling supplies were still available. After scouring the world, he bought everything he could get his hands on.

Here is a picture of one invoice along with the tag that was attached to the bolster of material.

Attachment 563882

Here is a close-up of the material that covers the seat bolsters. It is dimpled with perforations and not simply perforated. My understanding is this is factory correct.

Attachment 563883

The invoice is for the Pepita fabric, not the vinyl. But there are also good news for you. The horizontal
layout of the Pepita fabric is right, in contrary to many recovered seats.

[recarno]

@brent: here you can see the original perfo well...


regards uwe

[BrentF]

Perhaps someone could post a picture of dimpled diamond perforated vinyl for comparison?

[recarno]

@brent: I added a second picture, unfortunately I can no longer enter the text - so here: in the further picture you can see clearly that the seat back has the original perfo. the lower part of the seat was made later with a false (square) letherette. in addition still in poor quality because very matt etc. regards uwe

[911int]

Hello Brent, the different dimpling of the material has several reasons. See my AI thread :

https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...-Correct-vinyl

The material was never delivered in that way. The dimpling came with the age and depends on several factors as exposion to the sun a.s.o



This foto shows the original perforation as it was delivered in the 60th/70th

Michael

[John Binion]

Going thru old photos tonight and ran across this one; a comfort seat out of my 67S next to a race bucket out of the 68S. Gives a good size perspective. The weight differential is pretty significant as well.

[mejia_anthony]

I agree with 911int. Here are some photos of my original vinyl 68 sport seats. The first two photos are from the bottom of the seat (non exposure) and the second two photos are the exposed areas. You can see the difference in the dimpled exposed areas.

[911int]

Another thing good to see in Anthony's pictures is the partial loss of the embossing deepness.

[91167coupe]

The post 73 Recaro Idealsitz, when did it arrive and when did the more modern type with high back release arrive?