Mid 20's Buick Touring Car Upholstery

[Hubert_25-25]

This is the process that I went through to recreate the original interior for my 1925 Buick Standard Touring.  The touring cars came with leather upholstery.  Enclosed cars were mainly cloth interiors except perhaps on some higher end Buicks.  My interior was a "close" JC Whitney type vinyl interior that was installed in the late 50's when interior kits were available.  There are no kits today.  It's all done from scratch.  The place to start is finding photos of an original interior, then you can count the number of seat pleats and calculate the pleat width, or if you are lucky, an owner with an original car will give you a few dimensions.  Earlier Buicks are very similar to what is shown here as you will see if you also follow Mark Kikta's 1922 Buick Upholstery.  Buick even pleated the seat bottom skirt back then.  I have been meaning to make this posting as this is months of work but I hope to save others some time as they go thru the process.   Thanks for the help regarding originality from Mark Kikta, Larry DiBarry, Leif Holmberg and especially David Coco's advise on how to sew this all together.   Sorry that the site only lets me post .jpgs, so the word and power points have been converted for posting.  This is a lot of preliminary information (1 of 2), so be sure to see the next posting as well.      Hugh         

             

Edited September 21, 2021 by Hubert_25-25 (see edit history)

[Hubert_25-25]

This is the process that I went through to recreate the original interior for my 1925 Buick Standard Touring.  This is the sewing file (2 of 2), so be sure to see the previous posting as well.      Hugh     

 

 

 

Edited September 18, 2021 by Hubert_25-25 (see edit history)

[Oregon Desert model 45]

Hugh

Many thanks for all the effort you have put into this.  Those of us who will eventually reach the upholstery milestone will benefit from your research and presentation.   

Kevin 

[Paul White]

Hi Hugh, Just wanted to congratulate you on such an enormous effort and the fabulous results. I am sure that many people will find your detailed post of great assistance.

 

Cheers

 

Paul

[trimacar]

Great job and incredible detail in your descriptions.  It’s always great to be able to look at something you did for yourself and take pleasure in accomplishing it…well done.

[Larry Schramm]

Hugh,

Looks great!!

[95Cardinal]

Looks great, Hugh!

Thanks for sharing all the details of how to do it right!

Joe

Edited September 21, 2021 by 95Cardinal (see edit history)