Stuart - a vendor is limited by the products offered by the manufacturers. I agree - the ABS is crap so your best choice is to recover what you have. But if you are trying to get a specific color made, you would be better off calling the headliner cloth manufacturers. I think you are asking for a miracle though. I really don't think third gens are popular enough to make a color specific to 1 car line. These guys are making colors to cover every car line. That is why we will never get exact. at least not at this point in time. If one day they reach collector car status like a 69 camaro, maybe. But probably not any time soon. BTW - I am in the same boat with my TTA. There is nothing exact.

 

A proper grey hardtop headliner for a car they made from 1982-1992 is asking for a miracle specific to a 1 car line?

 

Yup. How many different shades of gray were used in the third gens over 11 model years? I doubt they will reproduce all of them at this point.
Like I said, I feel your pain as there is no correct replacement material for beechwood headliners either.