This 2-door Oldsmobile Super 88 Holiday Coupe’s interior fabrics can only be sourced from USA. A combination of NOS and remade cloth and vinyl has helped to make this Oldsmobile feel like a holiday car again. The seat foam that has been wrapped up in BOTH factory trim and retrim presented itself as tumeric powder by the time we stripped EVERYTHING back. There was enough “tumeric” to make a wedding banquet!
Regarding foam: Factory used a combination of what appeared to be polyfoam (that has become tumeric powder), and blanket-like filling/padding (not quite crêpe-thin, but not plesant to sit on either). The “blanket” used in the front backrests is flat and compressed (maybe this was considered or felt plush and luxurious in the 50s?), and we replaced it by making up a new foam kit using Dunlop foam. Mock up seat skins for BOTH front and rear were then developed over the new foam already fitted onto the factory seats. We then made the actual seat skins.
