[V8] Black interiors?

Thu Feb 5 10:21:44 PST 2009

Ron, you are an evil person.  Brilliant, but evil!  Just THINK of all the
possibilities!

Now, I wonder if this might be a good time to restart the old thread about
creating a V8 Avant.....

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Wainwright [mailto:ron_01056 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:24 PM
To: rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com
Cc: v8 at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [V8] Black interiors?

This what I'm in the process of doing to my front & rear seats.....

... I have sport seats from a Urs4 that have seen better days! The Black
leather on both side bolsters on the drivers side are well worn, & have some
holes in the leather. & I wanted to replace both D & P-side seat heaters. So
I was thinking BUWAHAHAHAHAAAA.....

 I had just recientley seen & went through a S6+ (Plus)... yup the only
known legal S6A 4.2 car in the US... anyway,
the car has Black on Black Alcantera seats front & back... I've seen Black
on Nargo Blue, & Blk with Stone Grey inserts... but fell in love with the
Blk on Blk seats. So back to what I was thinking........

.... I found a source for Blk Alcantera in Florida. I have a guy that I
trust to redo my sports I just have to drop off the front & rear seats so he
can measure how much material I'de need.
 I'm not sure on what he's going to charge me to redo the seats. 1st I gotta
spend $$$ on the Alcantera, which is bout $100'ish a yard. & then get the
foam seat sections & let the guy have them.
 Should be nice when there done though!

Ron

--- On Thu, 2/5/09, Roger Woodbury <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> From: Roger Woodbury <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>
> Subject: Re: [V8] Black interiors?
> To: "'Ingo Rautenberg'" <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 11:27 AM
> I dunno.  I have never gone to a shop to actually see what a
> new interior
> would cost.  There are a few shops in New England that can
> do first class
> work, but what they would cost today is an unknown...even
> if most of them
> are still in business.
> 
> But if the cost was at all close and I was trying to do a
> restoration on one
> of these cars, I would rather have a completely new
> interior rather than buy
> a used one not knowing exactly what it would look like
> until I opened the
> mystery boxes from Europe.
> 
> Then there is the other question of whether of not you
> would even use the
> same seats at all.  I have a fantasy of buying a V8 and
> pulling the engine
> to do a complete, "out of body experience" engine
> reseal, fixing all the
> things that you might as well do since "we're in
> there anyway".  While the
> engine was out, taking the carcass to the body shop for a
> complete
> refinishing, and then installing the "new"
> interior.  Since we're
> fantasizing, my new interior would use late series comfort
> seats and the
> rear seats would be two comfort seats also, set into a
> customized mounting
> platform.  The result would be a true four passenger V8,
> with individual
> front and rear seats.  I have NO idea what it might cost to
> do this, nor
> where it could be done...southern California someplace no
> doubt.  
> 
> The end result would be the ultimate V8 tourer, in as near
> new condition as
> possible.  
> 
> I was just looking at V8's that are advertised for
> sale.  There are some
> pretty interesting cars floating around for really small
> dollars that could
> be good candidates.  
> 
> Total cost might be around $25 grand, I'll bet.
> 
> Roger
> 
> Oh, yeah. And while were "in there" we'll
> yank out the old analog phone.
> It's worthless, and that space in the armrest will be
> where the humidor
> could go because I must be smoking something strange to
> come up with this
> idea.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ingo Rautenberg [mailto:ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:52 AM
> To: rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] Black interiors?
> 
> Roger,
> 
> I suggest you find a place specializing in doing this
> locally and get  
> a quote. Leather prices may have come down a bit, but hide
> costs were  
> through the roof even a few months ago.  I've got to
> think you'd be  
> looking at $1500 or more.  And I'm pretty sure you
> could get a  
> complete interior from Europe including shipping for less
> than that.  
> Just a guess.
> 
> Ingo
> 
> On Feb 5, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Roger Woodbury wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of importing black interiors from European
> sources made me  
> > wonder
> > if this would really make much sense.
> >
> > I wonder what it might cost to have the interior of an
> existing car's
> > interior recovered in something entirely new.  I
> wonder if the cost of
> > having it done, right down to the door panels and door
> and window  
> > posts
> > might not end up being less expensive than importing
> something that  
> > might or
> > might not prove to be really worth using.
> >
> > In the end, the interior would be entirely new.  It
> might even be  
> > possible
> > to use completely different seats, assuming that one
> wanted neither  
> > Audi
> > sport or comfort seats.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Roger
> >
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