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Question from Diana

Hi Debra,

Can you share how you re-upholstered a car to make it non toxic? Thanks!

Debra’s Answer

Many years ago I re-uphostered the bucket seats on my Fiat X-1/9 to remove the vinyl seat covers. That’s all I did.

I just took the car to an auto upholsterer, asked how many yards of fabric to get, then went and bought that amount of cotton canvas and prewashed it. They did a great job.

If I had wanted to, they could have replaced all the vinyl in the doors and I could have swapped out the carpet, but it was enough for me to replace the seat covers.

But I have another article for you about creating a toxic free car from an old 1986 issue of my newsletter. A reader submitted this very complete article about how to create “The All-Cotton Car..”

I scanned it for you and made a pdf: The All-Cotton Car

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