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Would any one happen to have a 1909 or 1910 Roadster with original upholstery they could post photos of?

The upholstery on my 09 touring front seat is probably the same as a roadster. It is leather and looks original though it could have been replaced in the 1950s restoration.

Thanks for the photo Tony. The 1909-1910 roadster had a divided seat with a left and right seat cushion. I was looking for photos of the seat backs and how they are joined in the middle on the vertical joint.
Tony, could you give the measurements of the highths of the horizontal buttons on each of the three rows starting from the seat base? Also how far apart are the buttons horizontally?
Thanks, Philip

Phil, I have some photos of an original 1909 roadster, I post them tomorrow.

Thanks Kim, That would be great!

FWIW this is Dan Logan's '09 Touring. I believe it is the original upholstery.
I hope you find what you need.
Rich

Phil, I can’t find pics of the car I was thinking of but here are a couple others. I’ll keep looking for the other one. Kim

Rich and Kim, thanks for posting the photos these will help a lot.

I'm not sure if this shows enough to help:
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/80 ... 1253415641
Then again a Touring but.....

Philip I have a November 1910 Roadster with the original upholstery on front seat and mother law seat if that is what
what you are looking for. Dale

Kim-
Those are great pictures, Kim, but why did you post a picture of your thong?

Keith, I found that in the back seat of your 11 Touring when you took us to diner. I was going to ask you about it but I didn't want to embarrass you!

I would still like to get dimensions of the vertical button spacing on the three rows of horizontal buttons from the top surface of the seat base up at the seat back. Also the same at the arm rest. Finally what it the spacing of the buttons from each other horizontally?
Any help on this is greatly appreciated. This is all for a 1909-1910 roadster, I don't know if the touring layout of the buttons is different or not.

Philip-
I don't have any dimensions, but found another picture. This is a view not often seen.
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I believe this is at the Seattle branch. It probably isn’t of much use, but it’s of new roadsters.

Thanks for the photo Keith. The roadster in the photo shows Grass Valley, CA mining engineer Arthur Foote in 1911 crossing the Sierras in a competition run in his model T. The car I believe was a 1910. There are photo's showing his early 1909 with light gray paint that I have also seen, so he owned at least two early T roadsters. That photo does show the upholstery quite well. Thanks again for posting It. By the way, Arthur Foote won the competition in the model T crossing the sierras ahead of all the other competitors.

Kim, that photo you posted looks vaguely familiar. If I'm not mistaken Lorin Sorensen published an article back in the early 1970's in his Ford Life magazine about the Seattle Ford plant. The article showed a much larger image of the photo you posted if I'm remembering correctly. Thanks for posting it. I love looking at the old photos.

1909 Roadster Seat complete with G-String

Thanks to all for the photos, but would still like dimensions on the button locations.

Well I think I have what I need. I went to look at a 1909 Touring this week with the original factory upholstery still in place. Measured what I needed and will adjust to fit the roadster seat. With the photographs supplied above, and the actual seats I think I can get them picture perfect! Thanks again to everyone that sent the photos and information, much appreciated.

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