The Cal-look Lounge

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?

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

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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?

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

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?

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 ;)

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.

Nepal Orange!!!

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 ;D

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


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Well done on having a go at the interior yourself!!  I'm just not that brave :)

I'm partial to this style.  I'll redo this same pattern on my VW Blue 67, eventually.

wow Colin...thats very cool  ;D

and i love those front seats ideaman, really nice.

Cool seats Ideaman nice to see original seat runners being used - just like back in the day  :)

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

Hey Ideaman,  You copied my interior! ;)

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

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Thanks for the inspirational pictures!  Makes me wanna start mine... and I haven't even started  on the car :)

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 :)


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I guess great minds think alike guys  :)

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!! ;D

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.

Cheers jick  8)

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

grtz

diamond stitch for me
here are mine home made door panels




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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.

I reckon both look cool and both work, got fat biscuits in a bug and diamonds in the ghia 8)

I'd go with biscuit, there's too many diamond stiched cars on here :P

my brothers old 67 had a fat biscuit stlye interior done by a local coach trimmers
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Ideaman,
What make/type of seats are these please?

Lee

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

Thanks, Im in the uk. Have you got a link to a website/company who stock them

I would go for fat biscuit, diamonds look sort of "cluttered" to me.

I'd go for flower inserts Berglar style! Of those 2 I'd do the diamond, the fat biscuit looks boring to me.

try Summit Racing
http://www.summitracing.com/

Lee, Call me ;D

If you are having someone to stich up this, why refrain to diamond or Fat Biscuit? There are so many cars out there with diamonds now, go with flowers... if you dare! ;)

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Sir Bernie of Newbury

Thats a Nice Looking Interior Black_Bullitt True Old School Look Here was mine back  in 1978

cool inside shubee it's look like the same as the bad company of roger crawford  ;D there's a lot of cal look at that time with herculeon plaid or something similar there's the car from the dvb we had post some picture , frenchy kg , bad company and also some other car

nice one dude...is that the car with 356 drums that was in Volksworld about 8/9 years ago from oop north?

Nick Ball's 60,very nice. Fat biscuits rock!

 ;D

yeah, I got it off Nick in 1999. It's still up north!

i like this seat for my bug

Fat Biscuit for me :)

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tom.

Here's an old shot of my '70.  Sorry that you can't really see the seats, but they were covered in BugPack slip-on seat covers that were black vinyl with velour inserts.  Very late 70's/early 80's cal-look! ;D
 

I have some Simca Rally II seats mounted in my 67, gonna make some matching door panels for it...

Nice seats Lowfastbus, but I would "box" those seat brakets. They would "fold" if you hit sometning, god forbid.