Lagonda
This fabulous Lagonda first hit the road in 1929. Rebuilt over a period of time with an upgraded engine the interior was the last part of the rolling restoration. The leather seats and door cards had suffered badly and there was only just enough left to make patterns. We sourced period correct aniline leather from A&A Crack and Sons.
Preparation
- Strip out interior of vehicle including front and rear seats, door cards, kick panels and rear arm rests.
- Pattern parts to be recreated exactly as they were, this included front and rear door cards, satchel bags, rear arm rests.
- Design new front seat coverings to look like pictures supplied of the car in the 1930’s.
- Design new rear seat structure and coverings to look like pictures supplied of the car in the 1930’s.
- Strip off window frame surrounds and make up patterns for them to be replaced in leather.
Two Rear Door Cards
- Make up new door cards for the front with 3.5mm ply board backing, 5mm scrim foam.
- Door cards covered in aniline chestnut leather supplied by AA Crack and Sons, Northampton.
- Door card design includes satchel pockets lined with brown moquette
Bottom kick panel covered in brown moquette. - Pipe around both door frames and window frames. Attach chestnut leather and wooden finishing trims and door panel tops.
Two Front Doors
- Make up new door cards for the front with 3.5mm ply board backing, 5mm scrim foam.
- Door cards covered in aniline chestnut leather supplied by AA Crack and Sons, Northampton.
- Door card design includes oval piped design per original photographs
- Bottom kick panel covered in brown moquette.
Pipe around both door frames and window frames. Attach chestnut leather and wooden finishing trims and door panel tops.
Front Seats
- Strip two front seats to bare frames.
- Refurbish seat frames by cleaning up and hand stitch needle felt and hessian onto the frames.
- Make new seat boards.
- Make new seat base cushions from rubberised horsehair and cotton felt per original design.
- Strip original front metal retaining boards, re-trim in chestnut aniline leather and fix with new fixings.
- Makeup tuck and roll seat back covers from chestnut aniline leather, backed with calico and stuffed with cotton wadding.
- Pipe and sew backs to brown moquette and mount onto frame.
- Makeup tuck and roll seat base covers from chestnut aniline leather, backed with calico and stuffed with cotton wadding, sew to seat cushions.
- Refurbish seat runners and fit to vehicle.
Rear Seats
- Rear seats built from scratch to match photographs from car in 1930’s.
- New seat back board made from ½ inch ply and hardwood.
- Seat back cushion made from foam and cotton wadding and enclosed in calico.
- Tuck and roll seat back cover made from chestnut aniline leather, backed with calico and stuffed with cotton wadding.
- Centre armrest re-engineered to fit new seat back, stuffed with foam and cotton wadding, covered in chestnut aniline leather.
- New seat base board made from ½ inch ply.
- New seat base cushion made from foam and cotton wadding and enclosed in calico.
- Tuck and roll seat base cover made from chestnut aniline leather, backed with calico and stuffed with cotton wadding.
- Tuck and roll covers stitched to cushions and installed into vehicle.
Front Kick Panels & Treat Leather
- Repair and re-cover front kick panels in chestnut aniline leather
- Oil leather
Rear Side Panels & Armrests
- Make up new rear armrest structures.
- Attach to vehicle.
- Make up and fix chestnut aniline leather armrest covers to vehicle.