New 914 owner. I need to have seat inserts replaced and want to find out where I can buy the black stuff to match the pattern (stock) on the doors of a '74. Or as close as possible. Any Ideas?

World Upholstery


they will even send you a free sample to make sure you get the color and pattern correct

I'll be ordering new tan seat covers and such from them in the near future..

914 stuff

took awhile to find the darn page....

Doesn't Dr. Evil do "very close to stock" replacements too?

Anyone know where (if any) to source the Plaid fabric found
in 75 and 76's? I'd love the to have my 74 signal orange
have a new kilt.

New guy again, who the hell is Dr. Evil and how do I find him?
Thanks.

Dr. Evil is Auto Atlanta.

And most people here wish they'd never found him.

Paul

QUOTE (URY914 @ Dec 29 2004, 08:54 PM)

Dr. Evil is Auto Atlanta. And most people here wish they'd never found him. Paul

I hope you're Joking....

Dr. Evil lives in San Diego and was best man at my wedding.

here is the link you need:

Dr. Evil's Resource thread

QUOTE (Red-Beard @ Dec 30 2004, 04:43 AM)

QUOTE (URY914 @ Dec 29 2004, 08:54 PM) Dr. Evil is Auto Atlanta. And most people here wish they'd never found him. Paul I hope you're Joking.... Dr. Evil lives in San Diego and was best man at my wedding.

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry

I was thinking Dr. 914.

I was wrong.


Paul

Yep, Dr. Evil = San Diego. Great guy. Can recondition anything it seems. And do it very very well. Dr. 914, not so sure.

Well, I guess I will chime in on this since Dr. 914 has been mentioned. Automobile Atlanta also sells door panels and seat recovering kits.

Find the seat recovering here...

Door panels can be found here...

We currently have a 1976 white 914 with the red plaid material original to the car. It looks great in the car. Take a look!!! The fabric is still available, but not on the cheap side.

Greg..that is a nice looking 914..love the red plaid interior!

I just bought new tan seat coverings to re-do my '73 seats from World...cost was about $257 for both seats...I've bought from them in the past and was very happy with the product...I should get the new coverings next week, I'll post pictures of the install, heard it takes about an hour for a newbie

new door panels coverings and a new backpad covering is $310 from World....that'll be next months project

World Upholstry is great. I don't think they have the OEM materials though.

QUOTE (greg.treadway @ Dec 30 2004, 05:26 PM)

... Automobile Atlanta also sells door panels and seat recovering kits...

greg, i've been looking for the orange plaid to replace the fabric on the seats in my orange '75. any ideas where i can get a couple yards of the stuff? nobody around here seems to have one that matches close enough.

~a

Hi Greg. Nice lookin' car. Aren't those early gauges?

Dr. Evil and friends



Dr. Evil as the laughing Buddha



Dr. Evil...did he wash his hands ?

Wow, the tan basketweave looks just like the oem stuff.

Mueller, pop for the leather seat kits! Damn, now I am really happy about the leather seats I bought!

There is a site in the UK that sells the trick plaid material but I can't find the site.

Geoff

Good grief, I am gone for one week and come back to being called Hussey and my mug plastered all over this site.
Mike,
Those are some great prices! I can't wait to see the results. Icould not find price quotes on theri site, do you have to call?
Thanks again for the wheel Mike, it was nice meeting you.

I was afraid to ask about leather...besides I figured the price would have been double and I'm going over my budget (again) on this car already and that is just for cosmetics...

Hey Mike, nice meeting you as well...yes, I had to call WP for the prices

QUOTE

World Upholstry is great. I don't think they have the OEM materials though.

my car is far from original...as long as the material looks nice and is not too far off I'll be happy...I have not heard of anyone complaining and I know we have a few members here that have the WP interiors...

QUOTE (Dr Evil @ Dec 31 2004, 01:50 AM)

Icould not find price quotes on theri site, do you have to call?

They are hard to find, but Here are the Prices

I'm tempted to try them out. I do want to learn to do it myself, but don't have the industrial sewing machine here yet. Looks like a good way to get my feet wet.

Thanks guys for all the leads!

Thanks for posting those prices. Are they just selling fabric and you have to sew it yourself or what? I have only seen carpet kits in the flesh so to speak.

QUOTE (greg.treadway @ Dec 31 2004, 11:44 AM)

Thanks for posting those prices. Are they just selling fabric and you have to sew it yourself or what? I have only seen carpet kits in the flesh so to speak.

Looks to me that they are selling sewn up kits that need to be glued/clipped on. Maybe a few hand stiches?

Just to make it easy, here are all the links in one place:

World Upholstry

914 page with images

Prices

Hey Mark B,

Those are early gauges on that car, good catch. As documented by Dr 914 and the Porsche factory we have seen several of these LATE 76 models with the earlier style gauges installed. Porsche was running out of the so called black button centered gauges and found some of the earlier ones in stock so substituted them. Very strange but true.

Greg, if thats true why did my late 76 vin -4063 come with black center gauges??

Geoff

Because the factory mixed them up please what is your entire id number? We have also seen seat heat seaming vs stitching and steel vs cardboard door panel sills and large vs small trunk rollers etc etc. The factory was just running out of parts!

the vin is 4762904063 and so far I know of 3 younger cars. Lets see, 4072, 4075 and 4081.
My car has cardboard doorpanels (tan), heat seamed seats, were small trunk rollers but I changed them, pretty much all the options for a 2.0L. I have removed the big rubber bumpers for early chrome ones. One strange thing, its rears shims are metal wedges instead of the flat plates if you can believe that. Got to change that soon.


Geoff

Geoff,

You sure do! sounds dangerous! another thing we noticed are the bolted or riveted front top holders were interchanged in 76 some bolted into the front of the trunk some bolted!

I thought I just posted this today. Try these guys.

Southbound
Little Dean Yard
London Road
Stockbridge, Hampshire
S020 6EL, UK

+44 (0) 1264 810080

That's where I found my pasha fabric.

They are Porshe Trim Specialists.