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Re: PackardDon's 1956 Clipper Custom Sedan
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Never heard of vinyl wrapped, personally.

Posted on: 10/2 13:58
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I don't know if cloth was used but suspect if the windlace looks like a vinyl material it is what Packard called "leatherette" which is probably in actual fact a vinyl concoction. It is a fairly thin embossed material that looks like leather grain and is something that Packard was very fond of. It was used in seat frame bases and on bottom portion of door panels along with some kick panels in place of real leather so maybe it was in windlace too.

Posted on: 10/2 14:14
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Typically, vinyl or leather wrapped windlace was used on open cars.

Posted on: 10/2 14:15
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Re: PackardDon's 1956 Clipper Custom Sedan
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Quote:

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Typically, vinyl or leather wrapped was used on open cars.

Some closed cars too. Even though a Custom with high end upholstery, my 47 sedan has it on the lower door panels and in a couple of other places.

Posted on: 10/2 14:17
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Re: PackardDon's 1956 Clipper Custom Sedan
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Thank you all for the helpful comments! In this case, I think SMS was making an assumption but without being near the car and with them making the interior sooner than later, a little confirmation goes a long way! I told them after the fact not make such assumptions and to ask first. I had sent them a small piece of the original which they apparently lost and I also sent them a swatch from the old headliner which they also apparently lost.

On the seat skins that they’ve already made, they used black when my originals looked grey and I don’t recall noticing in the hidden areas that they had faded to grey anywhere. In nearly all the photos I have they are quite grey but in a few of just the skins before sending them in they look black so not sure what to think around that.

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Posted on: 10/2 14:36
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I am installing a power seat and have the rails but isn’t there some kind of pipe (for lack of a better word) that connects the left and right together? My 1954 has that on its 4-way power seat but I am not clear what 1956 has and the dealer from whom I bought the rails and who knew it was a manual to power conversion supplied only the rails.

Posted on: 10/18 17:53
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Re: PackardDon's 1956 Clipper Custom Sedan
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Two of them actually--

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Posted on: 10/18 18:09
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Re: PackardDon's 1956 Clipper Custom Sedan
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Thank you, Howard! Couldn’t look it up myself as here in the high Sierra with no cellular and nearly no WiFi, posting the question was difficult enough!

Posted on: 10/18 20:50
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While I prefer the crisp look of NOS scripts, every one I bought for the front fenders had pins that would fall off at the lightest touch or one without even touching! I finally took one pair along with a good used trunk script and sent them off to a plater that said the pins could be repaired. They’ve had them for a long, long time (a couple years) to the point that I thought they were unable to make the repairs and at the high price originally quoted I wasn’t too worried about ever seeing them again but out of the blue a few days ago I got an email that nothing was due and that the parts were being shipped and they arrived yesterday!

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Posted on: 10/26 12:22
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Re: PackardDon's 1956 Clipper Custom Sedan
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On the scripts show above, should the open letters be left as they are which is textured chrome or are they to be painted? If painted, would they be black or body color?

Posted on: 10/27 18:57
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