I was wondering if someone would be so kind as to help me locate the
correct Beige houndstooth fabric that was used on the 1977-1980
triumph spitfires.

I've seen the seat covers that are made by Newton Commercial and the
houndstooth fabric is a perfect match. Only thing is the beige vinyl
is a very bad match. Please picture:

http://home.comcast.net/~reinarson/seat.jpg

It seems that all of the suppliers like Rimmer Bros, Moss Motors,
British Victoria all sell the Newton Commercial kits. I purchased a
set from Moss and I was disappointed that the beige vinyl did not
match at all as you can see in the picture. The cloth houndstooth seat
panels are a perfect match though.

My spitfire only has 14,000 miles and the only part of the seat that
needs replacement is the houndstooth seat panels. I thought I would
try contacting Newton Commercial to see if they would sell me a couple
of yards of their fabric and I would have a local trimmer sew in new
panels for me.

The response from Newton is that they won't sell the just the fabric
to a retail customer. All they offered to do is sell me another set of
their poorly matched seat covers.

I was wondering if anyone in this group knows how I could locate some
of this material?


Best Regards, Rusty

I located a good match for the beige vinyl:


http://home.comcast.net/~reinarson/match.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~reinarson/sample.jpg

This is a very good match to the Triumph code C74 (Beige Vinyl)


I found this at The Trim Store:

http://trimstore.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TS&Category_Co de=SEV

Too bad Newton Commercial can't find a decent match!!!!!!

I'm still finding no luck with the houndstooth fabric. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.

Cherrs,, Rusty

The newton commercial beige vinyl is brown. The vinyl on the spitfires
is more of a golden/honey color.



Here's a picture with the Newton Commercial sample:

http://home.comcast.net/~reinarson/newton.jpg

Sure it is not brown. Here's a picture of what it should look from a
1980 advertisement flyer:


http://home.comcast.net/~reinarson/flyer.bmp.

Apart from the steering wheel being on the wrong side that is!