Hi again, I posted a question about interior trim panels a few days ago. Thanks for all the replies. I've discovered that Mac's has these panels but I can't get a breakdown of exactly what this package consists of. Has anyone used Mac's for interior trim panels? I'm just about ready to order them if I hear a good report or two. Thanks again, Rod
Mac's interior trim panels
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FortyNiner
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What vehicle? The Cartouche packages are generally well described, in my experience.
rust runner
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Go with Labaron Bonney and be done with it. Super customer service. If something is wrong they will handle it/
TJ
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If it's just panels you should get the following; kick panels, door panels, quarter panels, the small panels that go between the back door jamb and the rear garnish, and possibly the package shelf. If they are selling you a kit I would check to make sure all these panels are in the kit. All the aforementioned panels are needed for your upholstery job. I would also check with Lebaron-Bonney. You might want to see if you can get samples of the panel board from each source. Sometimes the price difference can be the quality of the panel material.
Royal Ryser
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I recently ordered the interior panel kit from Macs for my36 tudor. My car had a lot of water damage to the panels and they were home made as well. I thought I would be better off to use new panels because they would fit right. Well, not quite.The holes along the door panel bottoms do not match the holes on the doors. Close but required enlarging the holes in the panels. That made the clips difficult to install. It all came together, finally, but the finished panels do not fit quite right and some of the clips have pulled out of the doors.
Altogether damned irritating. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the panels were not made to fit perfectly. Seems like a no brainer.
Altogether damned irritating. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the panels were not made to fit perfectly. Seems like a no brainer.
FlatheadTed
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I have had three kits from LeBaron B ,on one car I was fussy and put plastic behind the door panel s ,these panels are still in very good shape ,the other car had non and is well buckled .
1stford
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This is the way to go.
Royal Ryser
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There's more to my 36 tudor upholstery story and it may interest some people. It sure was a learning experience for me.
The car had been reupholstered in black vinyl many years ago. The front seat was from a '37 sedan and the back seat, who knows. Maybe a mistake, but I kept the '37 front seat and whatever the back is. I talked with both LB and Cartouche to see if they could accommodate a mixture of odd seats with original remaining upholstery. They tried but were not excited about it.
The panels in the car were warped and twisted from being wet, no good as patterns. After talking with my upholsterer, I decided to buy a panel set, headliner kit, and upholstery fabric from Cartouche.
The idea was, with new panels (which would fit, right?) and new fabric, the upholsterer could install the new fabric over the new panels and also match the seat covering to the pattern that was already on the seats. As I said above, the panels did not fit and required quite a lot of adjusting. The door panels, the kick panels and the rear quarter panels all required some work. Why didn't I return them? Well, they were better than anything else I had to use as patterns.
How did it work out? Just OK. The adjusted panels fit pretty well. The upholsterer was just OK, so it is not the nice tight fit I wanted, even though it cost as much as a good job. The material I got from Cartouche was very good.
To do it again, I would replace the seats with '36 seats, so everything was as original, and I would use a complete Cartouche or LB interior kit. I would also be more selective in hiring the upholsterer.
This is my first and last complete restoration. I could write a book about all of the mistakes I made, but I won't do that, either.
The car had been reupholstered in black vinyl many years ago. The front seat was from a '37 sedan and the back seat, who knows. Maybe a mistake, but I kept the '37 front seat and whatever the back is. I talked with both LB and Cartouche to see if they could accommodate a mixture of odd seats with original remaining upholstery. They tried but were not excited about it.
The panels in the car were warped and twisted from being wet, no good as patterns. After talking with my upholsterer, I decided to buy a panel set, headliner kit, and upholstery fabric from Cartouche.
The idea was, with new panels (which would fit, right?) and new fabric, the upholsterer could install the new fabric over the new panels and also match the seat covering to the pattern that was already on the seats. As I said above, the panels did not fit and required quite a lot of adjusting. The door panels, the kick panels and the rear quarter panels all required some work. Why didn't I return them? Well, they were better than anything else I had to use as patterns.
How did it work out? Just OK. The adjusted panels fit pretty well. The upholsterer was just OK, so it is not the nice tight fit I wanted, even though it cost as much as a good job. The material I got from Cartouche was very good.
To do it again, I would replace the seats with '36 seats, so everything was as original, and I would use a complete Cartouche or LB interior kit. I would also be more selective in hiring the upholsterer.
This is my first and last complete restoration. I could write a book about all of the mistakes I made, but I won't do that, either.