The 'E' Type Forum

Hi All, In the process of re trimming parts of the interior of my 1970 S2 coupe. Can anyone confirm the type of material used on the bottom of the cubby box behind the seats. My car is fitted with carpet but I understand it should be Hardura, is that correct? The cubby upstand section is in vinyl.

It’s a fuzzy type of carpet on my S2. I don’t think it’s ever been re-trimmed.

Thanks Tom that’s interesting. I believe on all the restored S2s I have seen it’s been hardura and that seems to be what the trim suppliers seem to offer. It was my trimmers, that are recovering my seats at present that stated S2 coupes were originally fitted with carpet which surprised me. Out of interest is your carpet bound at the edges?

I've not been able to look at a guaranteed original car in this respect, but the retrim kit I got from Aldridge Trimming included a shaped Hardura piece to lie in the cubby box section behind the 'upstand'.
BAS International also show it as Hardura on their website, item 19 in the S2 FHC section @ £41.11.
Mick Turley of MCT actually worked on trimming E Types, so you could try him.
Good luck finishing it all, should be great.

Thanks M,

Your comments ref trimmers and Hardura align to my findings. As I said previously, all the restored S2s I have seen in the flesh (metal), in reference books and on line seem to have Hardura, yet my trimmer is sure that it should be carpet. Thanks again for the response.

It’s carpet on my 1970 FHC. I’m certain that part of the car’s never been retrimmed.

Thanks again Tom very helpful. Your car seem to be fitted similar to mine.The carpet material fitted in my cubby box is not bound at the edges and is a different material to the main floor carpets but looks too new to be original I suspect. I quite like the Hardura I have seen fitted on other cars but want to keep as best I can to originality.

This looks very similar to the floor carpet, although as the floor carpet is very worn and cracked I can’t be sure. The bit in the cubby box is stuck down, so I can’t see what the back of it looks like.

Hi

I think the material you are referring to is moquette - not quite carpet, not quite flock. I assume it is used because it looks like carpet but is so much more flexible for covering panels such as the cubby box.

The 3.8 cars have this material on the rear wheel arches and on the vertical part of the rear bulkhead.

The part you are asking about on your car is covered with Hardura on the 3.8 cars, I'm not sure when it changed but I think it was when the 4.2 was introduced.

Regards