Let me tell you about MG and leather upholstery and cost.
In the eighties a friend of mine worked at the British Leyland Dutch parts
warehouse.
One day a financial guy came with the order to look for the parts, which
were not moving or moving very slowly.
All these parts had to be scrapped and depreciated to zero.
Guess what - several leather MGB seat covers were amongst the parts.
Now the bad news: these brand new leather seat covers were cut in pieces, in
order to avoid getting these onto the black - gray parts market....
Sad story...
Cheers,
Hans who's looking forward to a weekend of European MG Event of the Year
2005
Sunday it's record breaking time - the celebrating Dutch MGCC (50 years
young) has a week packed with events - sunday we try to get the longest line
of one marque of cars.
Guiness Book of records has this listed of some 273 Rolls Royces in one row.
With our club and other European MG's coming this must be easy to set the
new record!
'71 BGT Bearing a few left over stickers of the nasty scrap event (SCCA MGB
1975 champion)
----- Original Message -----
From: <ptegler@cablespeed.com>
To: "Max Heim" <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:44 PM
Subject: Re:
>I was under the impression no MG ever let the factory with leather (too
> pricey)
> as a 'stock' trim package (at least destined for j.q. public anyway)
>
> Paul Tegler
> ptegler@cablespeed.com
> www.teglerizer.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Max Heim" <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
> To: "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:13 PM
> Subject: Re:
>
>
>> Original would be leather. My 66 had vinyl, too, also probably the result
> of
>> a low-budget restoration. Red piping is unusual but I think it might
>> haver
>> been an option. I'd have to consult Clausager (Original MGB) to be sure.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>>
>>
>> on 6/29/05 9:28 AM, Mike Duvall at duvallcom@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>>
>> > My 65B has black vinyl seats with red trim. Was vinyl likely
>> > original, was red trim likely orginal?
>> >
>> > Thanks, Mike
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