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Camaro Research Group Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: COPO_Anders on March 14, 2022, 09:50:54 PM

Title: Who made the interiors ?
Post by: COPO_Anders on March 14, 2022, 09:50:54 PM

Hi!

Hans, a friend who is a real car nut and owns a 69 Z28 and a 69 L78 coupe with a Yenko 427 engine, asked me yesterday: who made the interior parts for first generation Camaros ? I said I don´t know, but I guess it was subcontractors and not Chevrolet.

So I thought it would be best to ask here if there are any topics about this ?
Who made interior parts like seats, and were they delivered to Fisher body or directly to the Chevrolet plant (Norwood/Van Nuys) ?

Thanks in advance !
Anders

Title: Re: Who made the interiors ?
Post by: firstgenaddict on March 14, 2022, 11:56:10 PM

Carpets were made by JP Stevens. I have found the tags still attached a number of times.

Title: Re: Who made the interiors ?
Post by: 169INDY on March 15, 2022, 12:06:19 AM

Interior Tags (1968 LOS)
i.e. Carpet & Bucket seat

Title: Re: Who made the interiors ?
Post by: KurtS on March 15, 2022, 05:14:17 AM

GM made the parts. The plants had a seat room where the seats were built. Some of the GM films show door panels being built.

Title: Re: Who made the interiors ?
Post by: COPO_Anders on March 15, 2022, 05:43:51 PM

Kurt, was JP Stevens a GM company or a subcontractor ? Were MOST parts made by GM, but SOME by subcontractors ?
I´m just trying to understand how it worked back then.

Title: Re: Who made the interiors ?
Post by: firstgenaddict on March 16, 2022, 12:52:20 AM

JP Stevens is/was a fabric manufacturer.

I was wondering who built the door panels... specifically the standard type 67-69 panels which were made from leatherette.
Leatherette is a type of coated paper which is embossed with a grain and made to appear like leather - the cover of a high school yearbook. I sold thousands of tons of it into the Philippines being made into book covers.

Title: Re: Who made the interiors ?
Post by: vtfb68 on March 16, 2022, 02:44:17 PM

The Allen Industries building in Compton still stands, with the faded name still readable on the wall.
    VT

Title: Re: Who made the interiors ?
Post by: 70z28lt1 on March 16, 2022, 09:05:26 PM

Inland Fisher Guide (various names through the years) here in Dayton made many interior and exterior parts over the years.  It was a GM owned subsidiary but few folks seem to have heard of it.

Here is a good, albeit lengthy, article about it:

https://daytonautoandmemorabilia.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Inside-Inland-web.pdf

back when Dayton and the nearby areas made many, many things automotive and otherwise.

Go to page 10 if you want to see what they made.

Knew many people that worked there.