Arran,
I guess you have hit on the real distinction, or the critical difference,
between cheap and expensive-- and not many people realize it. I certainly
hadn't thought about what you said until you said it. Almost everyone I've
talked to, or heard talking, about redoing their interior frames it in terms of
what material they will use, and will it be correct? Given that approach, the
cost of leather is prohibitive (is it really that much more?), so you wind up
with vinyl interiors in cars that, in my opinion, should never have vinyl
interiors. But as you point out, it's really the labor, not the material.
So, anyway, thanks for pointing that out!
MM
"A. Foster" wrote:
> Phillipe;
> That's what I will never understand is why anyone would go to all of that
> trouble in having seats redone in a car like this and cheap out on the
> materials. By far the biggest expense is the labor involved in having them
> reupholstered, the most influential factors, on which, being the style and
> construction.
> I have seen such absurdities as Lincoln Continental mrk. IIs reupholstered
> in vinyl, and this was a car that used Connelly leather like a Rolls.
> Granted redoing one in Connelly leather is impractical and likely out of the
> question; but it makes no sense paying a shop $40 dollars an hour to redo
> one in vinyl when you can always find some affordable hides. Often the
> original pattern fabric ends up being more expensive then the leather. I
> find that in a car like an Imperial your back sticking to the seats is a
> real turn off.
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