original seat fabric?

let me revist my photo albums, the 3 pics i just posted are of seat covers that belong to a G member, and they might be gray......

he sent me several photos of various NOS seat coverings he has....i might have my pics mixed up.....

let me look.....

EDIT..... yes, sorry for the confusion all, the email that those photos were embedded into list them as 48/49 vintage, so i concur, they are gray....

Edited by lowenuf - 04 Dec. 2010 at 6:06pm

45 #10012
45 #10033 ACM #47
45 #10163 ACM #188
57 CJ5 Dauntless V6, T-18 4-speed, D-44 rear/D-30 front, D-20 twin stick

Close up of my seat fabric:

This is what I used for the color swatches.

It only has 314 colors.

My wife who is an Interior Design Architect suggest we use the one in the link below instead.

It is the industry standard for fabrics and color.

Pantone

http://www.pantone.com//pages/products/product.aspx?pid=559&ca=4

This is a sample of the fabric swatches. 1,925 colors in all.

Bob, of your three that you have in the first picture. The one of the far right matches my texture I believe but I can't tell for sure.

Edited by Night0wl - 04 Dec. 2010 at 6:16pm

Night0wl
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" Jim Elliot
45 CJ-2A
My Project

Bob W wrote:

I don't think that all original seat covers were made from the same fabric. It seems like there are slightly different grain patterns out there. I think there were probably different suppliers for the seat fabric. . . . .

Very useful photos, Bob. Thank you.

To reinforce what Bob has said, in the thread at the link that Sean posted earlier, it was stated multiple fabric patterns of original type seat fabric have been found. I think that there are enough photos, even in this thread, to support that conclusion.

Also, a chuckle is that, the former Mr. Early Gray (me), went out to my rather cluttered garage a few minutes ago looking for a piece of original fabric that I picked up along the way. The pieces I was looking for were gray. I did not find them before I stumbled onto a seat back cover that I forgot that I had which was dirty looking. it is cleaning up to be distinctly olive. Since I don't know the origin of the cover, it proves nothing, but it does give something to compare color to. I'll post a photo of it in a bit.

Sam

1946 CJ2A 15292 ACM 6678

1947 CJ2A 122031 ACM 111989

Are Glass Bowl Fuel Pumps OE?

CJ2A #29110 "General Willys"
MB #204827 "BAM BAM"

"We do what we can, and we try what we can't"

I suspect there may be multiple agendas. While I'm interested in learning all I can about the original seat coverings for the full range of 2As, I'm most immediately interested in learning what fabric(s) could have been on my 15292. That includes the type of material, the color and the texture or grain. I'm also interested in learning what if any changes in fabrics occurred from from first production forward in time.

So, I think there is a variety of information that we can develop without being off topic.

Sam

1946 CJ2A 15292 ACM 6678

1947 CJ2A 122031 ACM 111989

Are Glass Bowl Fuel Pumps OE?

And the answer is ................................................

Dark khaki/Light Graystone:

http://www.carsdirect.com/2006/jeep/liberty/colors

CJ2A #29110 "General Willys"
MB #204827 "BAM BAM"

"We do what we can, and we try what we can't"

Ooops!!!!!!!

Sorry Bill Embarrassed

CJ2A #29110 "General Willys"
MB #204827 "BAM BAM"

"We do what we can, and we try what we can't"

Your samples are definitely grey Jeff.

Sorry I dragged you into this mess.

Night0wl
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" Jim Elliot
45 CJ-2A
My Project