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#1 ·
I was wondering if there are any leather bench center consoles. Currently I have a cloth one for my 2003 LX, but I am in the process of converting to all leather.
 
#7 · (Edited)
I can at least tell you I found one.

some time ago 10 years? when I was searching junkyards at the time
I happened to find a tan leather center console middle fold out seat assembly
which I un-bolted & grabbed for myself.

I'm thinking that junked car was a 1996

It had a shade darker color then the 1997 camel tan I had
it definitely wasn't gray (see pics)

The plastic trim was a shade darker too
which was annoying
as that made me tear that thing all the way down to it's steel frame -
to swap out it's darker plastic trim with mine that matched the rest of the car..
(which of course required a special tool , which I had to custom make from a modified hex head bolt) to get the special ford plastic one-way twist fasteners out

all the matching seats in that junkyard car were that darker tan leather color
but they were the standard build seats -
not like the SHO with the nicer seat backs.

I had bought a complete set (front & back) of SHO Seats off Ebay for ~350.00 delivered (very good deal) which came in by Fed-Ex freight on a skid.
I did get the power drivers seat / but did not get any console out of the deal.

My 97 car was column shift.

I've never seen a leather console like that listed online.
was looking for a gray one as recently as last April

Sorry if I'm getting your hopes up-

Even though I un-bolted that one from the 97GL before calling the Junkyard Wrecker & scrapping the car Last Spring due to un-repairable rust on the body shell underneath under the plastic "stone shields" running L & R under the full length of the doors
towards the shock towers - !!!

I did take out & save the front seats & the center console

But used the lower center console foam & leather
as part of my 2004 floor shift center console cup-holder re-build last spring
(extreme mod required)

http://www.taurusclub.com/forum/116...els-tires/308393-cupholder-mod-gen-4-5-a.html


involved a sharp kitchen carving knife to trim down some of the foam - mating to the plastic lid & in front to make room for where the cup-holders go.

I just had to have a better arm-rest than that 2004 stock plastic lid
with it's 1/4" foam pad

Yes I know the colors do not match
in fact I've never posted pics of it before for that reason

but yes - driving it now - it's so much better.
the feel is like driving with a piece of my old car. which of course is true.

So I'm not really using the upper leather arm-rest
(I don't mean the installed one - see last pic of it sitting on my rug)
but it does have more than a little wear on it.
 

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#10 ·
This is a little late, but I did find a donor car at my local yard. Everything was perfect except for the seat belt pretensioner was set off. All I had to do was remove mine and replace it in my new seats. Also I was able to go from manual seats to having a power driver seat. The swap took maybe two hours tops. Also in the process I installed the rear bench 40/60 fold down seats. I did not have fold down seats before this either.
 
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