Any Upolsterers Here? Where to Get Quality Faux Leather?

So the seats in my 944 are shot. I have a spare set (also rough) and I know where I can get a set of sport seat frames. So basically my plan is to cannibalize my spare seats and make some covers for the sport seat frames. I prefer a durable vinyl (or any synthetic leather replacement) because 944s are leaky, and that has pretty much ruined tow pairs of stock leather seats already (I know, fix the leaks). And leather is expensive. I'm thinking that the inserts are perforated, but I'm not positive about that. My mom is a seamstress and has experience making seat covers, so I'm going to have her help me. The current seats look like these, but much worse.

Upholstery supply house, naturally. In Tacoma we have Rex Peg, and I think they might be a chain. Look for a marine upholstry shop too. They all have lots of vinyl options. They'll have huge sample books to flip through and find what you want.

I'm not an upholsterer, but I've worked with a few, and I've heard from all of them that you need to be careful to select something with a jersey-knit backing. Like the same knit as a tee shirt.

From Quality Fauxes of course!

I thought Nauga's were extinct but I was wrong.... http://www.garysupholstery.com/naugahyde/index.html?source=google&gclid=Cj0KEQiA9eamBRDqvIz_qPbVteABEiQAnIBTEK2QIt-616InxoC3OMM_m7A4Wiz1n87RBbiED-_n064aArjt8P8HAQ

Only Semi-Relevant:

My 1982 Lebaron Convertible Mark Cross has reupholstered front seats. I tell people it is Rich Corinthian Vinyl and almost noone gets it.

LuxInterior wrote: From *Quality Fauxes* of course!

Wow. I just started laughing so hard I could barely breathe.

Thank you.

Vigo wrote: Only Semi-Relevant: My 1982 Lebaron Convertible Mark Cross has reupholstered front seats. I tell people it is Rich Corinthian Vinyl and almost noone gets it.

Try: "Da Plane!!! Da Plane!!!"

Vigo wrote: Only Semi-Relevant: My 1982 Lebaron Convertible Mark Cross has reupholstered front seats. I tell people it is Rich Corinthian Vinyl and almost noone gets it.

That's terribly sad.

I have no idea if it's true, but a coworker once told me that he read somewhere that Ricardo Montalban totally ad-libbed that line in the Chrysler commercial.

EDIT: Upon doing a little research, that is apparently not true. The term first originated in a 1974 Lebaron ad. The Montalban Cordoba ad was in '75. Although it appears that Chrysler totally made up the term, as the leather was not from Corinth.

I read somewhere that Chrysler picked the term because Ricardo sounded so cool when he said "Rich Corinthian Leather." It just rolled.

I think Corey should go with leather. The professional upholsterer I used years ago for my motorcycle seat said that leather would outlast vinyl. My original vinyl seat cover lasted 3 years and was shot. The leather seat cover he put on, kidskin that I supplied, has lasted 26 years and needs replacing now.

Looks like world upholstery offers replacement covers, in vinyl or leather. Easy button.

http://www.worlduph.com/porsche/924_944_968/#Seat