Honolulu
Well-Known Member
Gents:
As posted in another thread, it's time to source, make, or have made, new seat covers for my Baikal/tan '73 CS.
I got four samples from World Upholstery: 520 Beige, 5230 Gobi, 5320 Natural, and 5340 Llama, and went to the garage to choose colors, 5230 and 5220 appear to match, done.
Then the wife did one smart thing I didn't think of: she pulled down the rear center armrest to check for fading. Lo and behold, what I though was a different color on some portions of the seats is actually just a fade of the original single color... I think.
The hard part to believe is that the portions of the seat panels outside the centers, both seats and backrests, is darker "browner" color that what surrounds it. The surrounding parts are less brown and more grayish. If that's fading, why did it only affect those parts?
There is a good match between the World samples and both colors, if indeed there are two colors.
I kind of like the two-tone effect and may replicate it but "correct" deserves to be known. The question then is whether the seats came in one color (as seems to be suggested by the un-faded portion of the rear center armrest) or two colors (as appears to the eye when glancing at the seats)? A quick search did not reveal this has come up before.
If single color, "correct" would have me recovering the entire interior. If two-tone, I can leave the rear, which is undamaged, and match that appearance using two colors.
As posted in another thread, it's time to source, make, or have made, new seat covers for my Baikal/tan '73 CS.
I got four samples from World Upholstery: 520 Beige, 5230 Gobi, 5320 Natural, and 5340 Llama, and went to the garage to choose colors, 5230 and 5220 appear to match, done.
Then the wife did one smart thing I didn't think of: she pulled down the rear center armrest to check for fading. Lo and behold, what I though was a different color on some portions of the seats is actually just a fade of the original single color... I think.
The hard part to believe is that the portions of the seat panels outside the centers, both seats and backrests, is darker "browner" color that what surrounds it. The surrounding parts are less brown and more grayish. If that's fading, why did it only affect those parts?
There is a good match between the World samples and both colors, if indeed there are two colors.
I kind of like the two-tone effect and may replicate it but "correct" deserves to be known. The question then is whether the seats came in one color (as seems to be suggested by the un-faded portion of the rear center armrest) or two colors (as appears to the eye when glancing at the seats)? A quick search did not reveal this has come up before.
If single color, "correct" would have me recovering the entire interior. If two-tone, I can leave the rear, which is undamaged, and match that appearance using two colors.
