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Originally Posted by chicagoland
http://oldcarbrochures.org/index.php...e-Ptrestige-48
Above is link from Old Car Brochures site, shows T-37 interior page from 1971 Pontiac full line brochure. Shows the cloth and vinyl seat. All vinyl was optional. Also, looks like the 3 spoke steering wheel, in the brochure pic.
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The illustration in the '71 Pontiac brochure from the above link is actually a representation of the 1970 233 series parody cloth & vinyl bench seat upholstery. Pontiac produced the full line catalogues & brochures months before '71 production actually began. The illustration is not correct as actual '71 233 series were upholstered. The '70 model seat has the parody cloth insert all the way across the base of the seat. As the thin fabric pulls at a certain rate, it is not as "solid" for choice of better words, the parody cloth insert on the base of the '70 seats pulled & wrinkled, before they eventually came loose or tore. One can't just pile in an out of such upholstered seats, thus a revised pattern was introduced for the '71's (though they can be fragile, as well).
'71 233's & '72 base 2door LeMans seats had a vinyl section in the middle of the base of the seat to isolate the two seating areas of the front set lower cushion. Below is a web article on Mr Fitch from NM's, 71 1/2 GT-37. Has a lot of good pics. Mr Fitch was an early respondent back in the early '90's, when I ran the national GT-37 Survey, & I provided him a set of reproduction refective stripes which we were the first to commercially produce & market.
http://www.oneownercollectorcar.com/...t-37-don-fitch
On the black vinyl seat piece, the seat cover outer portions are Madrid vinyl while the bold insert pattern is referred to as Elk grain. This combination of vinyls was used on '72 LeMans with the option vinyl bench seat interior, as well as '72 LeMans with the optional Sport interior which included Strato buckets or a Strato bench seat.