Neat little article from Hagerty.
https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/art..._27_HagertyNews

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.

The Houndstooth of the Baskervilles


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=/oBX_Q1NZkGw

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?

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.

Didn't "houndstooth" come from Chevrolet?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A houndstooth by any other name would sit as well.

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