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See the horizontal seams that run though your vent window cranks? They are not in the book.
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I have some new info on this that supports the idea that the upholstery is original or at least a very, very correct re-do.
Arrived in the mail today is a 1967 Olds dealer brochure, and on page 18 is a view looking across the front seat toward the driver's door. A scan is below.
First off, I think the stitching, pleating, etc. in this picture is very similar to what's in my car.
But I really want to call your attention to the door panel, specifically the vent window crank that's partially obscured by the steering column. If you look carefully in the crook between the steering column and nearly vertical instrument panel, you can just make out a little seam running horizontally in such a way that it looks like it cuts through the lower half of the vent window crank just as it does in my car as can be seen in the photo of the passenger side door panel earlier in this thread.
I've highlighted this in the scan below.
In the scan below, I've enlarged the region of interest and indicated with an arrow the seam I'm talking about.
So, was it possible to get a factory-installed door panel with a seam running through the vent window crank as my car has and as is apparently shown in the dealer literature, or am *I* the crank??
I think that wmachine is working from a dealer album, which has fabric swatches and paint chips and which one would use to select colors and fabrics when ordering a car, and I'm guessing that that's more authoritative than what the brochure would show. On the other hand, it's hard to get past the fact that the seam IS shown in this brochure and in just the way it exists in my car. Why go through the trouble of including that little detail in the brochure if it's not actually accurate?