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| Mark Henry |
 Jun 27 2018, 04:53 PM
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that's what I do!  Group: Members Posts: 20,065 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Port Hope, Ontario Member No.: 26 Region Association: Canada  |
Neat little article from Hagerty.
https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/art..._27_HagertyNews |
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| Unobtanium-inc |
Jun 27 2018, 06:54 PM
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It shows up on early Kardex's are Pepita.
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| Mark Henry |
Jun 27 2018, 07:55 PM
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that's what I do! Group: Members Posts: 20,065 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Port Hope, Ontario Member No.: 26 Region Association: Canada |
QUOTE(Unobtanium-inc @ Jun 27 2018, 08:54 PM)  It shows up on early Kardex's are Pepita. Yep, in the article Pepita is what they say is the pattern is really called. Houndstooth is a different pattern that was never offered from the factory. I always thought the pattern was called houndstooth. |
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| euro911 |
Jun 27 2018, 08:13 PM
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Retired & living the dream. God help me if I wake up! Group: Members Posts: 8,849 Joined: 2-December 06 From: So.Cal. & No.AZ (USA) Member No.: 7,300 Region Association: Southern California
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The Houndstooth of the Baskervilles (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=/oBX_Q1NZkGw |
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| gereed75 |
Jun 27 2018, 08:27 PM
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You want some Pepita? Here’s your Pepita
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| Mark Henry |
Jun 27 2018, 08:39 PM
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that's what I do! Group: Members Posts: 20,065 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Port Hope, Ontario Member No.: 26 Region Association: Canada |
QUOTE(gereed75 @ Jun 27 2018, 10:27 PM) You want some Pepita? Here’s your Pepita I don't think that is Pepita or houndstooth, I believe it's called Vichy (Vichy check) and it's a negative of the pattern that's shown in the Hagarty article. Got a close up of the pattern? |
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| Mark Henry |
Jun 27 2018, 08:53 PM
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that's what I do! Group: Members Posts: 20,065 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Port Hope, Ontario Member No.: 26 Region Association: Canada |
Actually if you look at the article it looks a lot like the Recaro seat at the bottom where they call it "houndstooth", but say it's not the same as vintage houndstooth.
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| Mike Bellis |
Jun 27 2018, 09:30 PM
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Didn't "houndstooth" come from Chevrolet?
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| Unobtanium-inc |
Jun 27 2018, 09:57 PM
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Anyone who is interested in the roots or Reutter, later Recaro, should read this short history, I have some extra copies if anyone wants to borrow one. Fascinating read, and the pictures are really really cool.
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| Chris914n6 |
Jun 28 2018, 01:01 AM
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That article is a little screwy. Chevy houndstooth is the Space Invaders pattern and it's a little different than the European version.
Nobody in my world confused checkerboard with houndstooth. I've never seen the windmill pattern on anything. |
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| David Billo |
Jun 28 2018, 06:22 AM
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I Googled "Houndstooth" and it seems it is essentially a broken checkerboard pattern. Whether somebody called it "Vichy check" or "shepherd's check" or "Pepita" or something else doesn't change that. Picture 5 in the article looks like an unbroken checkerboard though. It doesn't look the same as the Pepita in Unobtanium-inc's picture.
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| Mark Henry |
Jun 28 2018, 06:58 AM
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that's what I do! Group: Members Posts: 20,065 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Port Hope, Ontario Member No.: 26 Region Association: Canada |
I'm sure I've heard it called houndstooth a few times and I thought that's what it was called. I'm thinking it just a generic name some use.
I admit I've never really never paid attention, as the pattern, white and cloth car seats isn't my cup of tea. I build engines, some would say obsessive about them, but honestly that obsession has never carried over to the difference in years, options or the brand of nut on a hood latch and the exact way it was clocked from the factory. I'd be a poor choice as a concours judge, but I'm OK with that. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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| David Billo |
Jun 28 2018, 07:58 AM
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Some more Gargling:
"Pepita" shows up as a Spanish word that means either "nugget" or "seed". But I got one link for the word in a German-English dictionary that translates it as "shepherd's check" or "shepherd's plaid", which I had already seen as an alternative name for houndstooth. https://www.dict.cc/german-english/Pepita.html So IMO, the premise of the article, that Porsche never used houndstooth, is wrong. They did, but they called it by another name, pepita. |
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| worn |
Jun 28 2018, 08:49 AM
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QUOTE(David Billo @ Jun 28 2018, 05:58 AM) Some more Gargling: "Pepita" shows up as a Spanish word that means either "nugget" or "seed". But I got one link for the word in a German-English dictionary that translates it as "shepherd's check" or "shepherd's plaid", which I had already seen as an alternative name for houndstooth. https://www.dict.cc/german-english/Pepita.html So IMO, the premise of the article, that Porsche never used houndstooth, is wrong. They did, but they called it by another name, pepita. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) A houndstooth by any other name would sit as well. |
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| jcd914 |
Jun 28 2018, 01:16 PM
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I took the premise of the article as, Porsche never used the pattern Recaro considers to be Houndstooth.
Per the article Porsche used a pattern that is more of a checker board of light and dark and called it "Pepita". And that this pattern has been incorrectly called Houndstooth by many over the years. But what I thought their point was is that Porsche never used the "windmill" like or "dogs tooth" like patterns that are also referred to as Houndstooth. What was teh pattern Porsche used? I don't know and like Mark those type details don't stick with me, so I could have sat in or worked on tons of Porsches with Pepita seats and still would know what it was. Jim |
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