In the first year of the COVID lockdowns, SMS Fabrics in Washington State had a one-time sale which I took advantage of by placing a deposit for the Clipper's interior and for new leather on my 1965 Imperial seats.
SMS contacted ME yesterday to see if I still wanted to order! That was a big surprise which MAY mean that my order, placed so long ago, would take precedent.
On the Imperial and probably why so many Packard people who know quality also own them (and why I run the
Packard / IMPERIAL page), the brochures describe the leather, in part and paraphrasing slightly, as being:
the finest available which used Tahitian coconut and whale oils to make it unusually supple. Argentine quebracho wood, bark from the South African wattle tree, the leaf from Sicilian sumac were a few of the ingredients used to give it a softness, strength and patina finer than most costly imported cars. Any leathers that would take out fibers from a soft feather passed across it would be rejected. The sumac also intrigued me as I run
SunVirgin.com, the official site about Peruvian singer Yma Sumac!
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