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Hi.
I have a 1972 (04/12/72) GT6 Mk 111. It's commission no. is somewhere in the KE14600 range.

It has cloth trimmed reclining seats, but is a rotoflex car without sundym glass and has the older style 'Standard Triumph' horn push.

My understanding was that cloth trim came in at KE20000 (Feb 1973?) when roto was deleted.

Can anyone cast any light on whether it should have cloth or vinyl seat covering.
Many thanks,

Steve

Hello Steve.
You are correct in that you should have vinyl seat covers with perforated flutes on your pre-KE20000 GT6. The cloth seats, with headrests, were part of the package of sundym glass, servo and Spitfire 1500 rear suspension added to the final production sequence of cars from February 1973.
I have just recovered my October 1972 seats, non-headrest, in perforated vinyl. I have photos but, alas, cannot post them during the current messageboard maintenance. Underneath, the seat construction is identical with the Spitfire, so it would be quite simple to replace the cloth with vinyl or leather. The foam is the main problem, and, if original, will now be crumbling to a black/brown dust. Canleys sell the Spitfire/GT6 Mk3 foams for around Â£145 a car set and the covers for Â£135. These are made by Newton Commercial so they are good quality and will fit. They are also CHEAPER than buying from Newton Commercial as they seem to price their goods on a 'we do not want to deal direct with the customer basis'

Thank you Lindsay,

I had assumed that the seats had been retro fitted when the car was rebuilt and, as I have never liked the cloth trim, it is a good excuse to get rid of them and bring a little originality back to the car.

Do you know if the orginal seats would have had headrests?

Regards,

Steve

Steve, the original seats did NOT have headrests. They were only fitted to the cloth covered seats after KE20000. You can, of course, use your existing frames with headrests if you want to retain them. Just ask for a headrest slot to be added to your cover when you order. If not, then just leave the headrests off and fit the standard cover. If you would like some photos of the seats being recovered contact me.

I've alos got a rotoflex GT6 and am just changing over top seats with headrests having located some seats from a late GT6 MKIII with good foams and cloth covers I'm going to remove the cloth covers and replace with the peforated vynil ones but with the chrome trim around the headrest aperture fitted. This will aloow me to keep the perforated vynil seats to match the rear seat but also allow me to have headrests which I consider an important safety feature.

I'll then sell the old cloth covers (which are in excellant condition) on ebay along with my old non headrest seats with the peforated vynil covers in resonable but not peffoect condition....

Hi Andy,

Let me know when you put your non - headrest seats/covers onto ebay, so that I can keep an eye out for them.

Regards,

Steve.

Will do,

The passenger one is excellent, the drivers one does have a couple of small tears , one of the reasons I'm bothering to change them, if only they sold the drivers cover as a separate item!

I'm gonna be extra carefull not to sit down witha screw driver in my back pocket again when I fit the new ones!

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