The upolstry guy wants $500 to cover my seat. I found 2 serapes that match my truck at a five and dime in Santa Fe for $10. My wife backed them with something or other to keep them from comeing apart. Been running them for 3 years now. Picks in my album if interested.
Not a big fan of most of the over done stuff but I think they look great. Got a couple for my car in Mexico on vacation last week. While I was down there all the mexicans were askin me for knit afghan pattern blankets for there vw's
<HR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #e5e5e5; COLOR: #e5e5e5" SIZE=1> <!-- / icon and title --><!-- message --> haha good idea, i wasnt over-thinking it, i hadnt thought about it at all until i posted that
He HE, I hope you're kidding. But if not I'll draw a stick figure diagram for you and we can sit at the kitchen table and I'll tell you what each one means and does. Tim
On a recent trip to Mexico I looked for one. If you got away from the tourist traps you could find some nice ones. They would start out at about 60 bucks and would haggle down to 25. What's funny is every place had a stack of the ones made in China. If they couldn't hook ya for an authentic one they'd try to sell ya one of the Chinese ones for about 10 bucks. I can buy the exact same kind at the local truck stop for 5.
Mex blankets were cheap cover for worn out upholstery if you couldn't afford Sears Roebuck, Monkey Wards or RayCo seat covers. There is no traditional to them.
I'm sick of Indian and mexican blankets. It seems to me that if someone was trying to make a quick fix seat cover a long time ago, they would have used a worn out old quilt because that was something readily available to most people at one time. The seat was long gone out of this Model T when I got it and I wanted to leave the car in worn out condition, so I used some old quilts and smeared them with dirt and funk. This truck was originally a touring car that was cut down for WWII war gas rationing stickers. You could buy more gas if you had a farm truck.
Hey Jason, How's the seat holding up? I was looking at getting traditional Falsa blankets, like that too, for my '65 Plymouth Fury III. Easiest way to keep them so tight to the bench without ripping 'em up? Was thinking hog rings.