348 SS Question

Did all 348SS cars have tan interiors? It seems every one I see the carbon seats are tan....

 

I've seen one with black seats in person. It was yellow with black interior. Maybe a high percentage were tan and that's why it's all you see...

 

Vince's has crema.

 

No

Mine has black

 

I have tan interior with black seats.

 

Cool. I wish I could beat all the people that ordered their cars with tan. hahahaha......it's not a Camry!

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Ha! My thoughts about black interiors, this isn't Germany.

 

Jerry, can you post pics of yours? Interested to see.

 

That's why red is best.

 

Mine was originally tan. But was converted to a Challenge car so no longer tan. If any one has info on this car I would greatly appreciate it. Its #91 serial #95820 Thanks Guys
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I looked at two SSs over the years while shopping for a 348. Both had black interiors-- one with a yellow exterior and carbon seats, one with a black exterior and standard seats. For whatever that's worth...

 

Mine is crema and I looked at one with black. Seems most I have seen are tan, however. Figures, there are only 115 Series 1 and 2 cars.
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And it's easier/cheaper to redo the inside than the outside. Which is one reason why I passed on a SS (I can do whatever I want without having to "preserve").

 

Just to be clear, I meant the interior. Now, I wonder if any SSs had red interior?
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thats cool

 

We're on the same page. I wanted a blk/red car, almost bought a blue/tan SS, but settled on blk/blk ts, so I'm planning on redoing the interior sometime in the future. In the past, it seems that people were pretty chevalier about doing an exterior color change. Nowadays, to do that right, it's very expensive. An interior color change is cheap by comparison.

But not all SSs were optioned with the carbon fiber seats. Instead, you could add red seats from a 348 Challenge. I've seen (online) red "F-40 style" seats as well.

 

My SS has the black interior with the black carbon fiber seats.
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This makes sence to me. I have a lot of German blood in me and I believe all interiors should be all out black.
Peanut butter colored interior? No thank you.
Red ? Come on now.. No. Never. Nine.

 

Saw this photo on eBay this morning.
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The common tan seats and less common brown carpets. I haven't seen another set of brown carpets.
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Maybe a dumb question, but how do these seatbelts work? Normally they come over your left shoulder and you click them at the point right bottom. But these seem to work different.

Or is this a US thing? (I'm in europe, so maybe that explains a lot )

 

Except for being two separate belts, they work very much like the belts in your car, except that the shoulder belt crosses the occupants' inboard shoulder and clicks into a receptacle on the outboard side of the seat base. The lap belt still crosses from outboard to inboard, where it has its own receptacle, located presumable where yours is.

In automatic (mad mouse) configuration, the receptacles for the shoulder belts run fore and aft along tracks just inside the door jambs. When the key is switch off the receptacles move to the front of the door frame; when the key is switched on the receptacles move to their normal positions by the seat base, effectively "putting your shoulder belt on" for you. You still have to do up your own lap belt.

I'm surprised the system was ever allowed, since failure to attach the lap belt means a neck injury or much worse in a frontal impact and the fact that the shoulder belts retain the occupants' inboard shoulders means that the bodies swivel outboard in the event of a frontal impact, instead of inboard, causing additional risk of potential injury. Gotta love federal regulations...

 

Like he said above. The fact that the seat belt warning lights go off once the shoulder harness has been fastened is whacky. As if the seat belt is not necessary. I let the mouse do its thing and manually fasten the harness and belt each time I drive. I suppose I should just pull the fuse once the mouse is at rest, but I like watching the little critter do its thing. Once the harness is fastened to the mouse, it runs back and forth to either apply or remove the harness. Upon the removal stage - mouse all the way forward - you are supposed to take the slack harness and loop it over the rubber finger by the rear view mirror. This gets it out of the way of egress and ingress. Turning on the ignition runs the mouse back to its "apply" position and it comes off the finger by itself. Yes, a very weird way to avoid air bags.

 

I love the carbon seats.