I don't so much mind the spend when it's "the right stuff", but I hesitate when it's not necessarily correct for the car.
Tempting as it is to buy "nothing but the best", one can easily end up in the over-restored corner.
I suspect you had a bit of bad luck with your eBay buy Howard; a decent quality Winceyette (the stuff they used to make winter jimjams out of, in the days when you could actually buy jimjams) might be somewhere near the mark. IF (big if) that is, my "original" sample is indeed the right stuff...
Tempting as it is to buy "nothing but the best", one can easily end up in the over-restored corner.
I suspect you had a bit of bad luck with your eBay buy Howard; a decent quality Winceyette (the stuff they used to make winter jimjams out of, in the days when you could actually buy jimjams) might be somewhere near the mark. IF (big if) that is, my "original" sample is indeed the right stuff...