Thanks for the advice
I went one better I had my upholster look at it before the pull to see if it could be saved, it looked pretty good to me and I wanted to keep the original he assured me it wouldn't go back in, once I pulled it out that became pretty clear. Besides it was worth removing the rats nest and skeletons I found.
He also told me to keep the old one for him to cut the pattern Im going to remove the ribs and number them.
Is the headliner material available (metallic silver, random star) ?
and has any one found the cloth material superior used in 59?
mine is red