Door Card Rebuild

[1990new]

I have replaced the gray and blue strip GL seats in Rosie with blue/gray tweed seats from a 90 LPlus and now I want the door cards to match.
The backing on the tweed cards I have was in horrible shape but the covers were in great shape. I have successfully removed the backing without damaging
the vinyl and tweed material. All the thin foam has has been removed from the back and I have cleaned the material really good.

Now I need to cut out some new cards and cover them with the material I saved. One of the card in in good enough shape to use as a pattern.
I would the card to look and feel just like the originals.
Anyone done this? Advice?

Or does anyone has some good blue/gray tweed cards they would swap me for my good Gray/Blue strip GL cards?

[F3BZ]

i wonder too especially if it is possible to somehow get the thin embossed lines smoothed and tacked back down. many cards i have or see have short sections of a continuous line lifting here and there. how were these made? my uneducated W.A.G. is a thin layer of foam and then the sheet of vinyl and the pattern pressed by a heated(?) die. but does it stay embossed due to heating or is there some tacky spray on the back of the vinyl that holds those lines tight against the cardboard panel until age loosens the glue. maybe just a reheat with a thin enough tool at the right temp would re-activate the glue. i just don't have any cards crappy enough to experiment with or ruin.

[1990new]

The entire back of the cover is vinyl. The tweed fabric part has a clear vinyl coating on the back.
Thin open cell foam fabric covered the entire panel board. Along the top edge of the panel board
there is a u shaped piece of metal that runs the entire length of the board.
I suspect that it may have been a combination of glue and heat pressing that created the embossed lines because all along
those edges a thin strip of the panel board stayed attached to the vinyl when I soaked it with water and pulled it off.
Most of the fiberboard on the ridges comes off with water and a small brush
but a small thin ridgge resist the water and stays put. I hope to be able to use contact cement along these lines and then use a straight edge
with clamps along these lines to secure the vinyl to the panel at the same points that it was attached originally. Also use contact cement all along the outer edges handle cutouts, window crank hole and on the overlap.
Not sure how all this will turn out but I'm at least going to give it a try.
I called a local upholstery shop today and the guy I talked to there said there is not place local that sells the panel board. It is available online but the cost
of a couple of sheets will be close to $30 shipped. I'm considering using 1/8" luan instead.

[bravekozak]

Believe it or not, I once considered cutting out some door cards out of blemished carbon fiber panels.

[1990new]

Believe it or not, I once considered cutting out some door cards out of blemished carbon fiber panels.

I do remember that you had posted in a thread about that a while back. You ended up having some custom made though I believe.

Right now I'm just trying to get some cards to match the new seats i put in Rosie. The gl cards that are in Rosie now are in good shape so if my diy project doesn't
work out quite right, I can just leave the old one in.