The interior of the car was absolutely worn out when I got it, the car had been in South Africa all its life and the hot weather and high mileage took their toll on it.
It had originally been silver beige leatherette with the red/black cloth middle inserts. Some one had covered it bright red plastic in the meantime and there was no choice other than to have new covers made.
i spoke to a few people with early cars in germany and found out that the last of the red black material had gone. Luckily a good friend and great expert on T3 ghias in California, Lee Hedges, had a contact who could remake the covers and the door and rear panels.
All materials are as close as we could get to the silver beige and we have used a brick red leatherette, similar to an option originally avaiable and featured in the 62 brochure for the car. The trimmer even managed to make repro door panels of the right dimensions by adapting a type 2 sliding door panel.
Here are some photos of before and after.
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