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pierrox Samba Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:48 pm Post subject: Carpet color in 1971 |
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My Ghia was born in late 1970. Body is Orange Signal (bright orange that is) and interior is Rosewood Leatherette (dark brown). Those are the original colors. Carpet is grey (salt and pepper kind of), but I'm not sure it's original. What would be the correct color for the carpet? I'd imagine either that grey (looks a bit modern though), or light brown (sand, would look very seventies'), am I right?
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c21darrel Samba Member
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pierrox Samba Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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Nice found, search didn't bring it! |
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KGCoupe Samba Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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Keep in mind these two things - carpet can fade a great deal from it's original color over 40 years, and VW had some rather odd color pairings to begin with.
My 1967 Castillian Yellow Karmann Ghia came with black seats paired with brown carpeting.
(At least that's what color the carpet looks like 47ish years later.) |
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scotty timmerman Samba Member
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NOVA Airhead Samba Member
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:21 am Post subject: Re: Carpet color in 1971 |
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pierrox wrote: |
My Ghia was born in late 1970. Body is Orange Signal (bright orange that is) and interior is Rosewood Leatherette (dark brown). Those are the original colors. Carpet is grey (salt and pepper kind of), but I'm not sure it's original. What would be the correct color for the carpet? I'd imagine either that grey (looks a bit modern though), or light brown (sand, would look very seventies'), am I right?
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I think if you have the Rosewood seats then the original carpet color was the light brown. Black seats had black carpet. _________________ Ghia Owner Emeritus |
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pierrox Samba Member
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:59 am Post subject: Re: Carpet color in 1971 |
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NOVA Airhead wrote: |
I think if you have the Rosewood seats then the original carpet color was the light brown. Black seats had black carpet. |
So that would be much lighter than the one Scotty used in his 71? Might match the dark seats pretty well I guess. (Thanks for the link Scotty BTW, I saw your thread a year ago when I got mine, great project you're doing!)
I'm getting the seats from SewFine, they seem to do a very nice work. Not totally OEM looking, but seems to be classy.
They offer the Sand color for the carpet, see here:
http://www.sewfineproducts.com/carpetsamples.htm
Would that match the "light brown" you're mentioning? |
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