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« on: November 01, 2006, 21:40:50 pm »

I tried some different ideas for the door panels and seats today... wich one do you like best?
The hot-rod squares or the traditional fat biscuits?
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« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2006, 22:21:43 pm »

guess which i prefer. Wink.....although the fat bicuits are very cool too.


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« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2006, 22:26:19 pm »

Very nice interior Jick, thats the style I'm looking after...probably going with the fat biscuits but like yours very much.
Did you do it yourself or hand it out?
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« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2006, 22:34:25 pm »

ha ha....i'd be pretty happy if i could make something like that Grin

i had it done by a dude here in the UK called Neil Tadman, he's very well known in the custom car/hotrod scene....he really is a top guy.

what colour is your car to go with the black interior?
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« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2006, 22:42:33 pm »

The interior should come in my karmann, haven't decided on the colour yet!
Probably orange, in traditional 70ies cal look style.
with 8 spoke empi's

I'm gonna try to do the interior myself, with the help of my girlfriend offcourse Wink
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« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2006, 23:03:30 pm »

sounds like a cool car, if you look on the thread about colours by Monkiboy in Off Topic there are some links to porsche colour charts from the 70's...there's some nice orange shades on there.

..if you did those samples above then i'm sure your interior will  turn out well, they look very good.

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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2006, 00:40:00 am »

Nepal Orange!!!
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« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2006, 01:54:28 am »

Double stitched fat biscuts just like the one you have on the right. Maybe make them more of a rectangle instead of square. Look at the Keith Goss choptop interior for a great example. You can use thread of a contrasting color to really make it pop. I like doing interiors Grin
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« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2006, 18:41:21 pm »

I'd say diamond stich it, but then I am biased Wink





Well done on having a go at the interior yourself!!  I'm just not that brave Smiley
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« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2006, 19:23:09 pm »

I'm partial to this style.  I'll redo this same pattern on my VW Blue 67, eventually.
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« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2006, 20:15:02 pm »

wow Colin...thats very cool  Grin

and i love those front seats ideaman, really nice.
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« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2006, 20:52:48 pm »

Cool seats Ideaman nice to see original seat runners being used - just like back in the day  Smiley
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« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2006, 21:02:25 pm »


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« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2006, 01:41:03 am »

I just layed out 180 diamonds on a customers headliner today  Shocked. Tomorrow I get to sew them up and install it. Its for an early Ford Bronco.
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« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2006, 02:51:24 am »

Hey Ideaman,  You copied my interior! Wink

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« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2006, 10:00:50 am »

It's not the best picture, but I've just gone away from stock interior, still using the standard runners...

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« Reply #16 on: November 03, 2006, 21:10:17 pm »

Thanks for the inspirational pictures!  Makes me wanna start mine... and I haven't even started  on the car Smiley
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« Reply #17 on: November 03, 2006, 22:42:40 pm »

I just layed out 180 diamonds on a customers headliner today  Shocked. Tomorrow I get to sew them up and install it. Its for an early Ford Bronco.


I went for diamonds on my headliner too.  I took me a while to convince myself it would work, but once it went in I knew it was just right Smiley


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« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2006, 01:54:01 am »

Hey Ideaman,  You copied my interior! Wink



I guess great minds think alike guys  Smiley
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« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2006, 23:17:12 pm »

looks very cool Mr Hood,

 and thanks for the cal-look T-shirt,  i'm really pleased with it,..... can you send me a bunch of ice-cream from the dairy-queen also, as i need to bulk up a bit to fit into it!! Grin
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« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2006, 23:45:39 pm »

Thanks,  That's my old 61 ragtop I ran in the DRKC in 2001, I t was sold and eventually was parted out.  That is the same interior that Luke (Ideaman) put in his green 60.
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« Reply #21 on: November 05, 2006, 11:40:31 am »

wow Colin...thats very cool  Grin

and i love those front seats ideaman, really nice.

Cheers jick  Cool
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« Reply #22 on: November 13, 2006, 20:18:38 pm »

hey jelle, I would go for the "fat biscuit" design.

grtz

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« Reply #23 on: February 17, 2007, 00:41:58 am »

diamond stitch for me
here are mine home made door panels






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« Reply #24 on: February 19, 2007, 12:36:17 pm »

NICE NEEDLEWORK DUDE!!  I don't have much in the way of interiour but what I got is Diamond Stich. Love the stuff!!  I got the door and rear pannels from a friend in a swap  , and the seats are from the empi catalogue, also diamond stich, still got to get the headliner done, and probably a few other bits.
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« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2007, 14:10:08 pm »

I reckon both look cool and both work, got fat biscuits in a bug and diamonds in the ghia Cool
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« Reply #26 on: February 19, 2007, 16:13:49 pm »

I'd go with biscuit, there's too many diamond stiched cars on here Tongue
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« Reply #27 on: February 19, 2007, 17:07:28 pm »

my brothers old 67 had a fat biscuit stlye interior done by a local coach trimmers
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« Reply #28 on: February 19, 2007, 17:16:20 pm »

Ideaman,
What make/type of seats are these please?

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« Reply #29 on: February 19, 2007, 17:34:20 pm »

Those are regular poly bucket seats. Commonly used in race cars and sandrails. Sold by just about everybody.
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