355 Ferrari F355 Carbon Seats – OEM-Accurate Reproductions by CarbonSeats.com

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I'm more familiar with the Porsche world than the Ferrari world, and even with far more shops and a bigger market, I am not aware of a Porsche seat upholsterer who can do early sport seats (for example) correctly. The go-to shops all do it wrong -- vinyl is the wrong shade of black and wrong sheen; perforation pattern in the seat cushions is wrong; they are webbed too stiffly; etc. I think people have the idea that making a repro is easier than making something from scratch, but the opposite is true. The repro is actually harder, because you have to copy everything exactly.

 

Owners have been trying to source proper leathers for our 355’s for 2 decades. That task alone is an achievement.

 

Hey everyone. Happy to report that today after a Ferrari factory tour I stopped by Zanasi after Reza was kind enough to arrange a visit for me. first and foremost, that is one of the most impressive operations I have seen. They are basically the silent partner that Ferrari uses for all of their atelier, Tailor-made, and other individualized cars. The amount of vehicles in their shop just today was staggering and I only saw one of their nine industrial parks dotted around the factory. Unfortunately, as it is essentially an extension of the Ferrari factory, and the cars are there are customer cars, photography is completely prohibited but in the area where they were working on our seats I was able to take a couple photos. Call them “ransom photos“ that I was there
I saw the seats that were posted recently awaiting for some hardware and I saw the Leather that was already cut to begin mine and several other customer orders. I was told that these would begin assembly in the next few days but, if I’m honest, this workshop seems very Italian so I wouldn’t be surprised if the slower than expected pace continues a bit.

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