Myself, I'd love to have a set of clear plastic seat covers with the knobby
embossed pattern like Fingerhut used to make. They aren't exactly "cool" as
in temperature, but they're cooler than flat plastic, and they are "cool"
looking on a fifties car.
Most of the FL cars had crappy cloth upholstery, sometimes crappy and pretty, sometimes crappy and ugly like my '55 DeSoto, but always crappy. The rare exceptions I remember are the '57 Dodges, '55 Dodge Custom Royal Lancers, and some '56 DeSotos. It wasn't a matter of price either; some high end cloth didn't wear well. --Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56 Plymouth, '66 Plymouth, '41 Dodge ----- Original Message ----- From: "eastern sierra Adj Services" <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx> To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Clear seat covers wanted Everything is a trade off: I happen to LOVE how the clear seat covers protected my precious upholsery from a certain cut/rip, at some unknown time, when I (apparently) sat down on the seat with something hard and pointy sticking out of a pocket. Nast little permanent-partial depression in the clear vinyl. I also love how the plastic allows the occupants to SLIDE onto, across, and out of the seats, instead of GRINDING into them. The vinyl seat covers also tend to reinforce the upholstery, firming up their support. The clear vinyl also brightens up the interior, creating a reflective appearance like a clear-coat on exterior paintwork. I don't park in direct sunlight, so the seats rarely get sticky; when they're newly installed, the vinyl can be tacky-sticky, but that condition fairly quickly goes away, and the vinyl ends up feeling like an all-vinyl OEM interior. I'm sorry, what was the down-side, to them, again? Oh yeah; they can get sticky in the summertime--LOLOLOL Neil Vedder ************************************************************* To unsubscribe or set your subscription options, please go to http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=l-forwardlook&A=1 ************************************************************* To unsubscribe or set your subscription options, please go to http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=l-forwardlook&A=1
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