I remember him saying "FINE Cor-IN-thian Leather....", but it was a long time ago.
Didn't know my geography at that young age, but was sceptical enough to think it was a made up advertising way of saying Naugahyde. (an artificial material designed to resemble leather, made from fabric coated with rubber or vinyl resin.)
Nothing like hot, plastic car seats when piling into the backseat in your shorts. Tear the skin right off ya.
Mom's and aunts sometimes had towels, but that was mostly on the way home from a lake or pool.
I didn't own a car with leather seats, steering wheel, etc until sometime in my 30s, but that was short term. Truthfully, I never minded cloth seats in a car; they don't scald you, and you don't have to kill a cow, so there's that.
But real leather does have a smell and feel adding to a sense of quiet Luxury that you just can't get carting kids around in a Maroon Caravan for 17 years. So, after many years, it was Out with the Van and In with the Sedan!
It's kinda big, but I only get out 2 or 3 times a month. It'll outlast me, so I splurged. The whole damn car's made out of leather!
I still have a sneaking suspicion that "fine Corinthian leather" is the stuff those black, skintight, stretchy stripper pants are made from.
I think a full scale investigation is called for, anybody with me?
If we hit that bull's-eye, then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards...Checkmate.
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