Here's the one I ended up making based off the pics of Retro Retrim's jig. I'll probably end up buying a better vise down the road, I just grabbed a cheapo off Amazon to try it out. Less than $30 and maybe an hour worth of work to make it. Can't wait to use it!

Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for!

I was actually just talking about doing this with my buddy yesterday. Unfortunately he just sent a BMW to the scrap last week he could have pulled for me. I'll keep my eye out for another, but would kind of like something a little less bulky/ easier to store when I'm not using it.

I wasn't able to find anything from the other two places listed above. Coachtrim didn't have much on their site, and after digging thru carbonwheel61 on Instagram I didn't come across anything.

Awesome, thanks I'll check them out.

Just spoke with Aaron from Hydes. They do indeed still sell Alcantara. So I guess I'll be setting up an account with them :smile:

Thanks again for the help!

The article you linked says that they are North America's largest distributor of Alcantara, but if you look ar Alcantara's website, they no longer list any distributor for the US. I'll be calling Hydes shortly to find out if it is still available through them or not, and I'll post what I find out from them.

Thanks for the response Andy. I looked through their website, and while there is still an Alcantara tab, the page no longer exists. I will contact them tomorrow, but I'd expect it will be the same case with them. According to my current distributor, Alcantara is no longer being sold to wholesalers, they are only providing material for OEM use. This happened within the last year.

The 152 is great stuff.

I've used products by 3M and Fusor made for plastic bumper repairs. They come in different strengths and speeds too. They aren't cheap, but They work great.

I usually get the "German vinyl" headliners from Sierra Madre if we are installing a vinyl headliner. Most of our builds are more along the lines of a restomod, than a restoration, so we aren't really worried about them being 100% correct. A lot of them get perforated Alcantara.

World Upholstery may carry the correct stuff. I've used their stuff before, it's very nice. Also GAHH is another possibility. Hope that helps.

It's definitely not the easiest stuff to work with. I've only used it a couple of times and I'd definitely say the size of the weave plays a huge role in it's pliability. The last stuff is in the car I posted in the custom interiors thread, the weave is roughly 1/2" x 1" so it's pretty coarse and doesn't do compound curves very well. There were a few pieces where I actually had to pullI apart the weave to wrap some corners and re-weave it as I worked around the corners. It was a ton of work, but they turned out pretty sweet. I did used some that was 1/4" x 1/4" a few months ago and it was much easier to work with.

They are usually lightly glued to a backing cloth, but I sew around the edges once they are cut out to keep things from moving around too much while sewing the pieces together.

I wouldn't be surprised if Auto Atlanta gets it from SMS. We deal with AA quite a bit, as my shop specialises in air-cooled Porsches, they're good guys to deal with too.

I feel your pain, the last interior I did, the customer wanted woven leather for seat inserts and a few other areas, it was just over $800 per yard, and I think we needed 4-5.

SMS Auto fabrics appears to be making it, if you are still looking.

https://www.smsautofabrics.com/products/seat-materia

Hey everyone, here's a few from my latest. '73 Porsche 911







Unfortunately I lost a bunch of my personal pics of our other cars when my computer bricked on me, but I've got links to some articles done on a couple of them.

'72 911

'71 911

'80 911