The Upholstery Forum

Ok, probably a dumb question... I need to make a suspended headliner for my son’s Dart. Is there any reason I can’t se the same vinyl as the seats? Maybe in a perforated style, but the same weight?

Joe

@Joemcglynn ,

I am thinking for the year of the Dart which I would love to have the headliner material is a certain fabric and you best wait for a trimmers answer on here to that for classic cars.

@Joemcglynn
Have you gotten @John "s videos yet? he has one on headliners that shows how to re-do suspended headlines

I think it is really up to what you are wanting the car to be . Are you wanting a correct restoration or a custom interior . If a custom job I would use seat matching material . Some of the older model cars used a different color perforated headliner mostly a cream color

@Happyrdr makes a good point there. I mostly to custom work so I almost always make the headliners with the same material I used on the rest of the interior.

Thanks guys. The question was mostly “would the same vinyl from the seats work for the headliner”. The factory headliner in the car was a thin perforated matrial - much thinner than the seats.

The original interior was blue, we’re going to re-do it in red. Not trying to do an accurate reproduction, it’s going to be custom but in the spirit of the original. Probably going to use the Monticello Red vinyl from Albright’s. It comes in a perforated style which will be nice for the headliner I think.

We pulled the dash apart yesterday. Mostly to deal with a few minor wiring problems, but we’ll detail everything while it’s apart. Change the color on the hard parts, fix the cracked dash pad, restore and paint the steering wheel. That should make things look a lot nicer. I don’t want to do the whole interior right now. Well, I *want* to, but we need to address a few mechanical things and then do the body/paint before that ideally. If for no other reason than access to the fasteners for the trim on the body. I’m trying hard not to just take it completely apart and turning it into a project that can’t be driven.





Carpet

@Joemcglynn
be sure and post pics as you do this, I am interested in seeing how that looks. I am wanting to do something like that to my 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee.

@Joemcglynn Yes the same vinyl for the seats will work for a headliner as well. Sounds like a great project!