I take the Beetle down to the alignment shop, Start recovering the seats and properly set the tail pipes in the muffler. If you want your beetle to smell like an original beetle. Buy the coconut husk seat pads. I don’t like that smell personally, so I’m using a cotton/burlap material to cover the springs. And foam for the padding This is just how I am doing it, you can build your seat anyway you want to.
It’s a curiosity about how the Germans started using coconut husk’s in their seats. People think it’s horse hair but it’s not. I believe it to be coconut husk. So, let’s think about this. Back in the 30s I guess? Or maybe when the Nazis took over and had bases in north Africa they were probably a lot of palm trees. If I’m not mistaken, the palm tree was Rommels north Africa logo. Maybe I’m wrong? Anyway, someone saw a huge pile of coconut husk’s, I would imagine from shucking coconuts. And thought Gee? What can we do with all this? I know! We can stuff seats with it, in automobiles. After all, it was free you know? Didn’t cost any money.
Maybe someone knows for a fact?
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