Seat skin date??

[Dick G.]

I have removed the old maroon seat skins from my 65. Inside there is a blue ink stamping, TEX 9-64. TEX is suspicous to me since Al Knoch is in Texas. Still my 65 was built the first week in January 65. Are these the markings of a repo. or an original? I suspect repo.. Thanks Dick Gutman

[Charles M.]

Re: Seat skin date??

Dick .. Here is what the underside of mine looked like. You can see the stamp.

http://www.pbase.com/valrico4/image/39804401

http://www.pbase.com/valrico4/image/39804402

Chuck

[Donald T.]

Re: Seat skin date??

Dick,

I would not be so sure they are repros. I have an original set of 65 seat foam and covers. The covers are ink stamped TEX 3 65. The covers also have hand written dates of 4-27 and 4-28. The foam is ink stamped Hoover Foam and have date late April date stamps as well.

Don Terry

[Wayne W.]

Re: Seat skin date??

They are originals. A K wasnt in TEX in 64.

[lyndon sharpton]

Re: Seat skin date??

any one know what that TEX is? were the seat corvers made in TEXAS?

[Joe M.]

Re: Seat skin date??

Here is a shot of the original seat cover date for my October built 63 with saddle leather. Could TEX reference a company name similar to the BB&I on my leather covers? Imagine leather and vinyl came from diferent sources?

[Mark #28455]

original manufacturer stamp

I have several sets of original 1969 T-top storage bags with the same TEX date code. Per the 1969 judging manual, there were several suppliers of the vinyl fabric.
Mark

[lyndon sharpton]

Re: original manufacturer stamp

I will have to look at my T-top bags, I think they just have a red stamp with the date in them. I dont think they have TEX in them. 71 care Dec build date

[lyndon sharpton]

Re: original manufacturer stamp

I will have to look at my T-top bags, I think they just have a red stamp with the date in them. I dont think they have TEX in them. 71 car Dec build date

[Terry F.]

Re: Seat skin date??

That is the correct material. Tex is short for Tex-hide. It must have been the name of the company or the product name of the material. It will also be manufacture factory dated like yours is. There may be a second date for when they were sewn together.

Several years ago I purchased some NOS vinyl on the role. It was very old stuff and I found the same stuff stamped on it. I took that old original vinyl and sent it to AL and he made me seat covers out of it. Very yummy seat covers when finished! Terry

[Michael D.]

Re: Seat skin date??

Those letters and numbers are the manufacturer and the date the materials where made. If you bought original seat covers or vinyl of today it too would have markings very similar to what you have unless it was made of cheap, probably China, Taiwan etc.. products. MOST, good quality, but not all material made in the USA will have the stampings on the back

[Michael S.]

Re: Seat skin date??

I have purchased Big Al's pile of reject/removed seat covers several times over the years and there are always original covers in the pile that were NOS or removed original covers. The "TEX" is correct for original vinyl seat covers. I probably still have 20 different colored sets/almost sets of original covers made up from his reject/removed pile. Many of the "Tex" seat covers from the pile were NOS covers that Al bought over the years.

All the original vinyl Mid Year covers removed from my cars have the "TEX" logo and dates the perfectly matched the cars build date.

The seat covers referenced above are original covers. If ANY of the 2 bottoms or 2 seat backs are still good they "can" be worth good money to the right buyer who is looking for covers to make a good set for an NCRS car. Do not throw away original covers that are still good. I can't tell you how many single original covers I have sold over the years to different members to make sets for their cars restoration. I have also made unusual colored sets of original seat covers from Big Al's reject pile. Particularly colored leather sets.

[Reba Whittington]

Re: original manufacturer stamp

I believe that I have only seen the TEX logo in 1968-69 top bags. The style of bag changed in 1970, so most likely it was supplied by a different company.

[Gordon Peterson #4961]

Re: Seat skin date??

My original dark blue vinyl covers are stamped identically to Chuck's, right down to the same date code. My car is an August '63 car.

Pete