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by **Jose** » Tue Feb 19, 2019 2:54 pm

I was organizing parts yesterday and found the yute insulation that I removed from behind the kick panel cards when I installed the Clarion speakers in the kick panel holea.

I had forgotten that one piece of insulation was cut from Yute, and the passenger side insulation was cut from black moquette. Yes Moquette, the same material applied over the under dash shelf in my car but black.

obviously they ran out of yute and used Moquette.

by **Jose** » Mon Feb 18, 2019 5:38 pm

it came from behind the dash by the wiper jets, it was pre-punched for removal but was never removed, they just ran the water hose through one side of it and left the plug in place.

It looks like that in the picture because I took a close-up which exagerates the textures, it is actually red vinyl, Hardura I assume.

by **awiedie** » Mon Feb 18, 2019 5:11 pm

Jose,

Where did that plug that is labelled Red-hardura+jute come from in the car? The surface looks pretty hairy to be Hardura. It almost looks like some type of colored jute.

by **Glyn Ruck** » Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:28 pm

The interior materials colour range is large these days ~ even Hardura & Hardura felt.

John Skinner's range. Scroll down.

https://www.john-skinner.co.uk/trim-upholstery-colours/

by **Jose** » Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:38 pm

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by **Glyn Ruck** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:53 pm

awiedie wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:35 pm Thanks for the kind words, Glyn. Not too bad for a 38 year old restoration.

Somehow I missed the thread where you show all the progress photos of your car restoration and the final result. Just fabulous! You should be very proud of your hard work. One thing though. Shouldn't those two pull handles on the picnic tray and glovebox lid be running in the same direction instead of being opposed? Ha, just kidding. Some dimwit judge will ask that though you know.

Alan ~ Thanks & your attention to detail is great! ~ I actually mention it in another thread here. Glove Box lid & tray handles are correctly fitted in opposing orientation on RHD cars & aligned orientation on LHD cars. Go figure?? I actually look forward to taking on a few "dimwit" judges. (you know the kind ~ "the popstud on your owner's handbook pouch should be burgundy & not brown" LOL)

See here:

http://www.jagstyperegister.com/forum_n ... 1439#p1439

by **awiedie** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:35 pm

Thanks for the kind words, Glyn. Not too bad for a 38 year old restoration.

Somehow I missed the thread where you show all the progress photos of your car restoration and the final result. Just fabulous! You should be very proud of your hard work. One thing though. Shouldn't those two pull handles on the picnic tray and glovebox lid be running in the same direction instead of being opposed? Ha, just kidding. Some dimwit judge will ask that though you know.

by **Glyn Ruck** » Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:51 am

Hi Alan ~ Huh! Another car with the chrome fingerpull on the glovebox. As I mention elsewhere on this forum (not this thread) yours is exactly as others I've seen. Plain chrome as in the brochure. No black sleeve.

The rest of your car is exactly how I would expect it to be. Hardura felts etc where I would expect them to be and Moquette where I would expect it to be.

Thanks for the photos of your car ~ especially under the parcel shelf. Your car is not all beat up like the original Bloemfontein car I show earlier in the thread. I still have to fit the Hardura felt around the vents to my car & Skinner does not have the patterns. As things stand I will have to cut the Hardura Felt myself.

For clarity Alan's mention of Moquette.

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Half an original column shroud.

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by **awiedie** » Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:42 pm

Well, I guess I'll stick my toe in the water and make some comments about interiors. I just heard from a fellow in the UK who recently purchased the hard-to-find rubber air cleaner-to-hose seal from me ( I have 7 left) and he mentioned seeing my name in this forum so here I am. Glad to see Glyn is still fighting the fight for originality of his spectacular S Type.

Nigel asked why the Hardura behind his dash is red. Mine is red also and I always figured it was because the car has a red interior, but maybe it's what was available at the factory at the time. My car is a 1964, P1B75188BW, which I bought in 1976 and spent a few years restoring. I always thought most things were pretty original except for the 4.2 liter E type engine!

I think it was Jose who mentioned a few things I wish he would clarify. One was Hardura mats behind the footwell side kick panels. I don't remember anything there but I suppose Jaguar could have added jute panels to the bodywork there for soundproofing? Any photos of that area? The other thing was mention of hardboard panels, one left and one right, behind the parcel shelf or dash. Any photos of those?

Speaking of photos, I have posted a few of these areas on my car. My floor carpet is fairly thin and I used the same material on the front parcel shelf. The two cover panels at the steering column and the form below the glove box are covered with Moquette same as the kick panel area behind the front seats.

by **Glyn Ruck** » Tue Dec 18, 2018 9:24 pm

Interesting ~ I've never seen red Hardura Felt used before. Only seen plenty of black. As it's unseen generally as a sound damping material I guess they used whatever they could get. Thanks for that. Another reference for my "finishes" archive. It seems to me that 1964 was a settling period where they just used what they had. 1965 production onward seems more stable interior wise until the run-out "cheapened" S Types with Ambla upholstery etc.