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SN95 Interior / Exterior Color Combinations - were some not possible?

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I've found lists of the exterior color combinations for the SN95, and I've seen lists of the interior options as well. What I haven't been able to find yet though is if certain exterior colors were available with only certain interiors. Or were all combinations possible? Were all interiors possible with convertibles?

The reason I'm asking is because I have a junkyard in my area where you can pull your own parts, but they only list cars by model, year, VIN, and color. However they don't list inventory - the cars stay until they are picked over enough to go to the crusher.

What I'm hoping to find is a set of *rear* black leather seats. I have the "saddle" tan leather in my car and I swapped the front seats to black leather (from a 2012 donor convertible). I'd like to swap the rears to black leather if possible, but there are not many places that sell the rear seats. I could of course just get covers for them and call it good, but I figured if I could find a set in good shape I'd just swap 'em.

The current best candidate donor is a 98 that just arrived and is listed as "blue". The VIN is listed as 1FAFP4042WF179685, though I don't know if we can decode that to tell us anything about the interior. One VIN decoder I found suggested this is a 98 Coupe, so that likely won't work as I'm looking for seats to put in a convertible.
 

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Have you considered recovering your current seats?

1994-1998 Mustang Convertible Custom Real Leather Seat Covers (Rear)

1994-1998 Mustang Convertible Rear leather seats cover are manufactured using superior cow leather. These seats are primarily used as replacements for the factory seats cover. If you are looking to replace new seats cover on your car, then you will need to remove the old cover first. The...
www.lseat.com

They have them in black along with a lot of other combos.
 
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Noobz347 said:
Have you considered recovering your current seats?

1994-1998 Mustang Convertible Custom Real Leather Seat Covers (Rear)

1994-1998 Mustang Convertible Rear leather seats cover are manufactured using superior cow leather. These seats are primarily used as replacements for the factory seats cover. If you are looking to replace new seats cover on your car, then you will need to remove the old cover first. The...
www.lseat.com

They have them in black along with a lot of other combos.
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I have considered it. $350 for the back seats is a bit more than I'd be inclined to spend right away, as my back seats are in really pretty good shape (after all how often do back seats get used?). I can get the entire back seat from the local bone yard for under $100; I'm just trying to forecast how likely I am to find it in any given SN95 convertible before I drive there.

It's too bad the back seats changed dimensions with each generation; I actually have some backs someone gave me from a newer convertible but they are significantly wider than the SN95 convertible backs, so they aren't useful.
 

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Hmmm.... My sources are inconclusive.
 

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If you want pure black, they you are limited to 94-98 cars. In 1999, Ford changed the black interior to charcoal which is more dark grey.

However if 2012 is technically charcoal, and not black, you will want a 99-04 rear seat to match.

I'm not aware of any technical differences in convertible rear seats between 94-04. Looking as some 94-98 convertible rear seats online, they look like the back seat from my 2000 other than color and material pattern.

Couple rear seats are completely different, upper and bottom. They are wider.

You want to check digits 5 6 and 7 in the VIN. P44, P45 and P46 are the convertibles.

 
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