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Subject: Spitfire 1500 Seats
From: StuCohen@aol.com
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:25:57 EDT
Hi,

I have decided to confront a major issue that all Spitfire owners must at face 
some point...restoration of my seats.  I opted to go with the beige houndstooth 
pattern to keep with originality, and ordered the whole megilla, seat foams and 
all, from Victoria British.  However, the color of the vinyl in their kit was 
significantly different enough from the original that if I replaced the seats, 
they would be a distinctly different color from the rest of the interior.  I've 
tried all the usual suspects (Spit Bits, Motorhead, etc.) for color samples of 
their seat kits and they've all come back with the same color.  Apparently they 
all get their seat covers from the same manufacturer in Britain, and they tell 
me that's the only manufacturer of houndstooth covers in the world.  The color 
I've been getting is more of a "darker tan-brownish" beige, and the original is 
more of a "lighter orangish" beige.  I'm sure it's just a dye lot variation 
issue, and if I kept checking periodically!
 over the next few years, I'd ev
entually hit a dye lot that matches my original interior.  Or I could replace 
the entire interior with the available color, but that would be a lot of 
unnecessary work and expense for an otherwise like-new interior.  I'm really 
keen to do this sooner rather than later, and I'm wondering if anybody knows 
any other source for houndstooth pattern seats, or has any other option 
(preferably not ridiculously expensive) for getting the right color vinyl in a 
seat kit.

Thanks,
Stuart

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