1974 Carrera Coupe - RHD, UK car

[Ferry Man]

This is another Porsche card showing some of the various tartan seat inserts.
The green one I’m after is the bottom of this list.

[jb]

You have just rescued yourself from the edge - I thought we might have lost you to the extremes of convention.
Long rule turquoise and tartan.

[DustyM]

This is a colour chart for 1974.

That No41 Blue Madras is the trim my '73 E left the factory with, would love to get hold of some.

[Ferry Man]

And another swatch card that better shows the different colours Porsche offered of the same tartan design.
The one I'm after is No.42 (second up from bottom, right column).

[jb]

42 the ultimate answer to life ...

[964RS]

Green tartan will be very nice. Much cooler than boring standard black inserts (sorry to those with boring standard black inserts)

[Mitch]

42 the ultimate answer to life ...

some things are just meant to be!

those seats are gonna be insanely cool

are you're going the whole way with the rears & door panels?

[Codfather]

Whilst I like the tartan seats, do you not think lime green with the green tartan will be too overpowering? I know the grey/black is maybe a bit boring but think you need a contrasting colour. Could you find a grey tartan with a thin stripe in green ( I know you can get it with a red pin stripe)

Cheers
Dave

[Ferry Man]

do you not think lime green with the green tartan will be too overpowering?

No, it'll be fine.

are you're going the whole way with the rears & door panels?

No, I think that will be too overpowering.
Rears seats yes, door cards no.

[Ferry Man]

are you're going the whole way with the rears & door panels?

It was possible to specify the tartan cloth throughout the whole cabin.
Below are a few images to illustrate (it's a later 911).
There are some rather poor photos of a set that was up for sale on eBay but you can see just how much patterned cloth you could get.
I think that’s a bit over the top for me.
I don’t want door cards, rear quarters and rear shelf done that way. Call me a wuss.

[Codfather]

do you not think lime green with the green tartan will be too overpowering?

No, it'll be fine.

:

I'll trust your judgement then, it's been enthraling so far!

Cheers

[Ferry Man]

Of course there is a Porsche precedent for non original tartans.
This was another man called Ferry.
His 65th Birthday Car:

[Ferry Man]

I hunted high and low to find that Porsche tartan and believe me it was tricky finding some.
Really tricky.
I very nearly gave up.

Well, in fact I didn’t give up but what I did consider was commissioning a bespoke making.
But I felt that a minimum order of 100 yards of cloth would bankrupt me.
It was coming out at a five figure sum.
And yes, I did think about it.
I thought how long would it take for me to get my money back selling a couple of yards at a time...

[Ferry Man]

Other options presented themselves, I found a Mercedes tartan but it wasn’t right.
I found non-automotive tartans but they didn’t match closely enough and those fabrics wouldn’t be hard wearing enough for use on seats.
I found a VW van tartan but the pattern was slightly different.
I really wanted the Porsche design.....

[Ferry Man]

But there had to be another way.
So I tried all over the world.

None in Britain.
None in Germany.
None.
Dead ends all around.