"L" for Leather

Posted by Ken Sadler On 2011/6/10 11:00:59

Aftenoon chaps,

I am starting to make plans for the refurbishment of the leather interior of my 745.

Its difficult to tell whether the leather is original (I doubt it!) or how old it is but it is still in pretty good shape but dirty, faded and damaged in small areas.

I have access to specialist products to repair and recolour the leather and plan to do it a bit darker than it is at present.

As you can see, its a bit of a washed-out parchment colour at present and, because the car is red, I'm planning to make it a tan or light brown colour.

I suspect that this will still look period as such colours were popular in 1930 but the question is, what finish should I apply? Gloss, semi-gloss, satin, semi-matt or matt?

Would the leather of the period have been shiny or not.

I'm tending toward a satin finish but thought I would ask for opinions first.