Showcase: Interior Products

Where’s your comfort zone? Inside a car it’s, well, inside.

Cars and trucks are personal extensions of their owners’ personalities and, as such, they become special personal places to be fashioned to and for the comfort of their owners. Rear-deck bobbleheads and fuzzy dice aside, drivers make their car interiors conform to their comfort zones. They change the look and feel with dash kits, leather seats, seat covers, door bezel overlays, floor and cargo area mats, seat heaters, accent lighting and more. That’s the nature of personalization.

Throughout the next several pages, see what comforts are making interiors more personal for your current and new customers.

	2010 SUBARU DASH APPLIQUÉ Sherwood Innovations, Toronto, Ont., offers its interior dash appliqué for 2010 Subaru Outback/Legacy. Shown here in Lavishwood, the dash appliqué highlights the design and creates a personal touch. Additional appliqués for customizing interiors for many makes and models, and available in many finishes including various woods, carbon fiber, solid colors. USE INFO #405

UNDER-SEAT STORAGE Husky Liners / Winfield Products, Winfield, Kan., offers its Husky GearBox® for storing items. Engineered to specifically fit under a vehicle's rear seat. Large capacity with removable dividers to store and organize both large and small items such as jumper cables, tools, car care supplies, etc. Manufactured in the United States with a lifetime warranty against cracking or breaking. USE INFO #400

	CUSTOM LEATHER INTERIORS Pecca Leather Inc., Norwalk, Calif., introduces its wide range of custom automotive interiors. Ready-to-install, OEM-quality leather kits fit an extensive lineup of import and domestic passenger cars, pickup trucks and SUVs. Six warehouses for 24-hour delivery service. Pecca Leather is a TS16949-certified manufacturer and Tier 1 supplier of automotive interiors to various automakers. USE INFO #416

WOOD TRIM DASH KITS Automax-BeneVento, Mount Vernon, N.Y., makes available its line of wood trim products, such as this one for a Honda CRV. Finishes come in variety of colors made from three primary raw materials: real wood, carbon fiber or synthetics. Easy application. USE INFO #408

	SUNROOFS Webasto Product North America, Fenton, Mich., offers its line of single- and two-vent power sunroofs. Available “key-off” feature; “memory” set positions; etc. Some models with Rain Sensor option. Also, folding fabric power sunroof; classic power spoiler sunroof. USE INFO #415

JK DASH KITS Bestop, Broomfield, Colo., presents its Dash Kits, including burl wood center stack and matching door overlay. Also, brushed aluminum center stack that dresses up a Jeep JK. USE INFO #401

	’10-’11 GRAND SPORT MATS  Corvette America, Reedsville, Pa., makes available its premium-quality floor mats from Lloyd Mats with Grand Sport logos for 2010-2011 Corvettes. Front floor mats and cargo mats available in original interior colors with several logo color options for coupe and convertible; mats use original anchoring system. USE INFO #412

CUSTOMIZABLE LEATHER PACKAGES Alea Leather Specialist Inc., Hudson, Mich., offers its lines of Italian automotive leather: Prestige, Eleganza, F1, X, Luxury Plus and Comfort Plus. In Verona or Napa leather grade. OEM-approved Serafil airbag threading. Applications for 160-plus vehicle patterns. USE INFO #407

	MUSTANG CARPET TRUNK KITS Auto Custom Carpets Inc., Anniston, Ala., makes available its Carpet Trunk Kit for the 1967-68 Ford Mustang convertible. Also offers this carpet kit for the 1965-66, 1967-68 and 1971-73 coupe, and 1969-70 fastback. USE INFO #413

PHOTOS ON LEATHER SEATING SCC Northwest / Pacific Restyling, Vancouver, B.C., offers its Digital Leather and SmartFilm™, a new process that allows for digital images to be printed onto leather. Simply take a picture and send it to SCC. The photo will then be printed onto top-grain leather and ready for you to install with a Roadwire or Katzkin leather kit. USE INFO #409

	LEATHER SEATS, INTERIORS Katzkin Leathers, Montebello, Calif., makes available its leather seating and interiors, covering more than 2,500 vehicle patterns, including: Touring edition, Barracuda square-perf leather, ultra-premium Tuscany, Rawlings baseball leather, and simulated Crocodile, Lizard, Ostrich and Carbon Fiber. Many two-tone options. USE INFO #403

’70-71 CHEVELLE DASH PAD WITH GAUGES Just Dashes, Van Nuys, Calif., offers three gauge pods for stock 1970-71 Chevelle dash pads, without altering the size or fit of the pad. Dash created using supplied original core, into which the pods are precisely hand molded. Pods angled toward driver for monitoring engine, boost, transmission temperature, etc. 2-1/16” gauges are pressure-fitted into the pod opening. One drill hole needed behind pods for wiring and sending units. Available in all original factory colors. USE INFO #411

	HEATED SEAT COVERS Wet Okole Inc., Costa Mesa, Calif., makes available its seat covers with built-in heating system. Waterproof neoprene-backed covers designed to fit every popular model of Jeep, truck, van and car. Come in a variety of styles that can be customized for a number of specifications. Available in 300 colors, look like custom upholstery. USE INFO #417

INTERIOR COATINGS SEM Products Inc., Rock Hill, S.C., offers its Color Coat, Sure Coat and Classic Coat interior refinishing products. All use advanced technology to provide solid adhesion, fade resistance and flexibility when changing or restoring the color of most car interiors. For leather, vinyl, plastic or carpet. USE INFO #410

	FLOOR PROTECTION Wade Automotive Products, Salt Lake City, makes available its Sure-Fit Mats, advanced complete floor protection. Digitally measured to ensure both accuracy and complete coverage to protect carpeted vehicles. Made from a rubberized copolymer, mats have a rigid core for durability, with a tactile surface, offering friction against the carpet, for a sure fit. Once installed, won’t move unless owners move them. USE INFO #414

GM-LICENSED MOLDED CARPETS Trim Parts Inc., Lebanon, Ohio, makes available its custom-molded carpets and custom-fit floor mats. Engineered and manufactured to meet original GM specifications. Custom molded carpet is the only GM-licensed molded carpet in the automotive restoration business. USE INFO #402

	PRIMERLESS ADHESIVE TAPE 3M Automotive Division, St. Paul, Minn., makes available its Primerless Acrylic Foam Tape 5849. Tape is 20-mil thick, providing a clean, integrated, factory-installed appearance. Tape’s design enables thin, flexible interior dash trim parts to lie closer to the vehicle’s dash surfaces, and the adhesive eliminates time-consuming surface priming, saving time and improving efficiency. USE INFO #406

STREAMLINED 2-TEMP SEAT HEATER KITS Check Corp., Troy, Mich., offers its streamlined, easier-to-install, two-temperature seat heater systems. Kits come equipped with a miniature temperature control module. Lighted two-temperature Hi-Lo switch has new, quick disconnect. Heating elements are thinner, with a peel-and-stick backing for quick, easy application. USE INFO #404

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