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Old Jul 25, 2017 | 10:52 PM
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Original Interior

Im looking for images of the original interior of a 1956 F100 Custom Cab. Seats and door side panels in particular.
 
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Here's the material that was on my 56 custom cab seat. Door, kick and headliner panels were all grey pressboard.



The red seat bottom is a cover. The red and buttons on the upper seat back is original



Houndstooth pattern material



Black piping.
 
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Old Jul 26, 2017 | 09:51 AM
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BJ goof pic of the seat. It's true that only the bottom has the piping. That's exactly how mine looked before and after it was redone. The lady who did my seat took the back apart to see if the piping some how came off but there was no evidence of it ever being on the back
 
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Old Jul 27, 2017 | 05:05 PM
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Here are pictures from the 56 dealer catalog. It confirms what BJ and Kevin said about no black welting on the seat back. Also note that the vinyl bolster and sides were color coordinated by the trucks body color. It doesn't say what color vinyl went with what color truck but we can at least say that by the pictures, red vinyl went with a red truck and Coppertone vinyl went with a yellow truck.





 
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Just to clarify my truck that this seat came out of was Platinum Grey originally,
 
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Originally Posted by bjmayberry2
Just to clarify my truck that this seat came out of was Platinum Grey originally,
Ok, so Vermillion and Platinum Grey trucks had the red vinyl facings and bolster.

Can anyone else with a Custom Cab 56 help us out here? Kevin was your truck red originally?
 
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Yes my truck was originally red. I have never seen any other color for the vinyl. It's always been red
 
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Looks like on the brochure that yellow had copper tone.
 
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Old Jul 28, 2017 | 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by bjmayberry2
Looks like on the brochure that yellow had copper tone.
Yes, correct. So we know that red vinyl went with a red truck and Platinum Grey and Coppertone vinyl went with a yellow truck.

Can anyone with a 56 Custom Cab tell us what color your vinyl was on the original seat?
 
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My Dad's 56 custom cab f100 Truck that Im trying to bring back to life is an original black truck. It has a red, kind of, vinyl padding on the top of the dash. I say kind of because its barely padded and not sure it would do much in a crash. Although it does not have the original seats I believe and recall them to be red. Im hoping that maybe the original is under the covering that is currently on it. Will post when I uncover.
 
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The 55 Custom Cabs had different color seat material for different color of trucks. The 55 Dealer Catalog lists the color of trucks that got the red and green seat material. "Seat upholstery is color keyed -- a warm red for Vermillion, blue, and black exteriors; harmonizing green for green and yellow."

So can we assume that the red vinyl went with red, grey, the blues and black and the Coppertone went with the greens and yellows?

 
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