To have the mustard stain removed, please visit an authorized workshop
01/13/2023
Are you actually as happy when you buy a classic car and are handed not only the keys, but also a pile of documents or literature from the youthful years of the new purchase? I, for one, always have fun with such things. Not only because the original, soft-leafed owner's manual still provides a link to the first owner even after decades, but above all because of all the curiosities you can find in it.
Like in the on-board folder of my Opel Rekord P. In addition to the owner's manual and a map of the Swedish General Motors dealer network, there is also a booklet entitled "Skötsel och körning av Eder GM bil" - "Driving and maintaining your GM car". It not only explains how to extend the life of the tires ("Förläng däcks livslängd"), how to drive properly on country roads ("Landsvägskörning") and how to save fuel ("Bränsleekonimi"), but also how to remove stains from the seat upholstery.
However, the Swedes do not leave it at general advice, but give specific brief instructions on how to properly remove battery acid, blood, chocolate, chewing gum, fruit juice, oil, ice cream, lipstick in particular, vomit, paint in general, shoe polish, tar and urine. Of course, not all covers and surfaces are lumped together. Sometimes leather, fabric, plastic basket weave, soft top fabric and floor mats require different treatments.
I have not yet applied any of the advice. Also because one of them is missing for coffee. Don't worry, I still managed to get the stain out somehow. It was just a slipcover anyway - and my Swedish isn't the best anyway. So the booklet is actually pretty useless. But especially in this day and age, when operating instructions are really just 500-page lists of things you should never do yourself, I'm still pleased to have this little document of the pedantry of days gone by.
