>>Yes, the Toronado Brougham's seats were upholstered in the finest
>>Corinthian velour.
>
> Luxury! In the 1980s I was sitting in shorts on the back seat of a
>Renault with I swear plastic seats. My parents actually used to give
>us scratch old beachtowels to sit on in the middle of summer if we
>went on long trips...

Oh yeah. Vinyl upholstery! That was the ticket when I was a kid too. My parents reckoned that cloth seats stained too readily, and leather was too expensive, so they tried to get vinyl whenever possible. That green Malibu I mentioned had vinyl seats along with all of its other endearing features.

(Or did you actually mean, like, hard plastic? Like Polyprop chairs for seats? That would be hellishly weird, but, well, Renault, I can't entirely rule it out. :)

The worst vinyl seats I ever had were in an old Chevy pickup from the early '80s. The truck was originally black (though it no longer was when it got to me), and the interior was kind of a dark maroon, which looked nice, but man alive did those seats ever get hot in the summer time.

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