Sport Fury Upholstery

Fins59 · Post by **Fins59** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:06 pm

Well here it is another New Year and time for car resolutions. The last few years it was body work, disc brakes, headliner, engine detail, etc. This year I'm thinking upholstery. A previous owner of my car redid upholstery in all vinyl but retaining the Sport Fury theme. It's in good shape but nothing matches the original in beauty. Would appreciate any info anybody has on obtaining the fabric and any other pointers. Thanks, John Z

tomf · Post by **tomf** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:13 pm

SMS near Portland OR would be my suggestion for the correct fabric. I have used them several times, they have a very good reproduction product. The interior of both my SF and my Belvedere is from them. Find them at www.SMSautofabrics.com Tom

rogerh · Post by **rogerh** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:54 pm

Ditto from me, John. They can frustrating to deal with, in terms of time to deliver, and for me the vinyl color "match" took two tries. If I may suggest, buy the reproduction fabric from SMS, buy the vinyl from OAI and have your trusted local upholstery shop put it all together for you. I wish I could tell you how many fabric and vinyl yards it took to do my SF..but I believe Tom Fox can answer that.
(5 1/3 yds???Tom? I simply did not keep records..)

rogerh · Post by **rogerh** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:57 pm

BTW John, did we ever do business regarding the upholstery buckles?
Having recently moved, I can no longer go to the spot I had my extra's in order to answer my own questions..

Fins59 · Post by **Fins59** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:45 pm

Thanks, Tom & Roger for your replies. I will check with SMS. We have a local guy here that I could probably get the vinyl from and have him do the job. He's a Ford guy though so I have to get my own research correct. For example, in photos I see the pattern on some of the door panels run vertical and others run horizontal. I think the vertical is correct or are they both correct? Roger - reference the buckles, I correspond frequently with one of my cars previous owners in Texas and he sent me the original rocker moldings and threw in several buckles so I have enough. I found him thru some papers in glove box (which never got cleaned out), lucky find. Roger - saw your WPC article in Showcase - you do good work! John Z

rogerh · Post by **rogerh** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:47 pm

I'm glad you found the buckles.
As for fabric orientation, whatever Tom Fox has done is correct. There is also Robert Hines for reference. Look for their cars in the Sport Fury portion of the Showcase section of the 59plymouth.net site

tomf · Post by **tomf** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:32 am

I believe both patterns are correct. Most of the advanced literature like dealer brocheures and magazine articles, shows a vertical pattern in both seats and panels. Every SF I have had or seen has the horizontal, and I have copied this in my restorations. All of these cars had the M294 vin, meaning a LA build. Maybe we could find a pattern of what plant did what. There might also be a pattern of early numbers vs later productions. The variations could be like others concerning these cars, like grilles having grooves or being smooth, or brake boosters being a Bendix can or Kelsey Hayes bellows. I have some of each. Tom

Post by **Faulkner** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:53 pm

tomf wrote:I believe both patterns are correct. Most of the advanced literature like dealer brocheures and magazine articles, shows a vertical pattern in both seats and panels. Every SF I have had or seen has the horizontal, and I have copied this in my restorations. All of these cars had the M294 vin, meaning a LA build. Maybe we could find a pattern of what plant did what. There might also be a pattern of early numbers vs later productions. The variations could be like others concerning these cars, like grilles having grooves or being smooth, or brake boosters being a Bendix can or Kelsey Hayes bellows. I have some of each. Tom

Tom, my friend Ed Ober reports the same thing -- he's encountered variations in the way the material patterns run as well. Besides the grille grooves, he mentioned that the LA gas pedals have dots on them (as mine does), but a different pattern exists for builds elsewhere.

Dan

Matthew Keij · Post by **Matthew Keij** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 2:22 pm

Does anybody have some of the interior buckles? Or know where to buy them???

rogerh · Post by **rogerh** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:51 am

Hello Matt,
A dumb question, maybe, but why are you shopping for upholstery "buckles"?

Matthew Keij · Post by **Matthew Keij** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:06 pm

I like how they look and they removed them out of our P

rogerh · Post by **rogerh** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:28 pm

That means you need a complete set, for door panels too?

Matthew Keij · Post by **Matthew Keij** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:33 pm

Yeah, they removed them all! Don't know why

rogerh · Post by **rogerh** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:44 pm

Well, for whatever reason, you need ALL of them, right? Door panels AND seats..?

Matthew Keij · Post by **Matthew Keij** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:49 pm

Yeah, door panels and seats.

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