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Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: thunderjet302 on January 21, 2007, 08:04:30 PM
So instead of getting a Cobra intake and 65mm TB for my upcomming HO swap I decided to have my front seats re-covered in the factory leather/vinyl combo. The seat faces are leather and the sides are vinyl. The upholstery shop I used was able to locate some factory material to re do the seats. Just a word of warning: if you have smoke gray leather and it needs to be fixed get it done soon. This material is very scarce and it took the upholstery shop 3 weeks to locate enough to do the seats. The price wasn't bad either: $950 for both seats.
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: thunderjet302 on January 21, 2007, 08:06:25 PM
Some more
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: thunderjet302 on January 21, 2007, 08:08:11 PM
Oh yeah I also installed a console :D
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: thunderjet302 on January 21, 2007, 08:11:03 PM
This is what it looked like before:hick:
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: dominator on January 21, 2007, 08:44:55 PM
Looks nice man,but 950 dam.
Coulda got an A-trim supercharger or aluminum heads for that price.
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: Autocat on January 21, 2007, 08:56:51 PM
yeh 950? whoa..  but the seats do make the interior look new.  i think the seats really define the perception of age of an interior.  lookin good.
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: mjbtbrd on January 21, 2007, 09:50:56 PM
nice!!!!!!!!!!!
very nice!!!!
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: vinnietbird on January 21, 2007, 10:33:24 PM
Very nice.The interior looks great.I was going to have mine recovered,but found a killer deal on a set of replacements for about 25% of what the shop was asking to recover my old ones.
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: V8Demon on January 22, 2007, 12:48:10 AM
Thank GOD my seats are cloth!  I have one teeeeny rip in the upper driver'sseat on the side.  No way is it worth fixing yet.  I have put covers over the seats for posterity, however.  I do need a center armrest though.  Mine is DONE.  How is the one you took out when you put the full console in?
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: cougrrr302 on January 22, 2007, 01:47:07 AM
 that looks awesome.
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: thunderjet302 on January 22, 2007, 09:59:43 PM
Quote from: Paul Flockhart;125019
Thank GOD my seats are cloth!  I have one teeeeny rip in the upper driver'sseat on the side.  No way is it worth fixing yet.  I have put covers over the seats for posterity, however.  I do need a center armrest though.  Mine is DONE.  How is the one you took out when you put the full console in?


Mine is toast as well. I had it covered it with a cover my mom made out of some left over gray fabric (see the last few pics). It was leather as well and it cracked all to hell. Yeah it was $950 to do it to factory spec in leather/vinyl but if I wanted all leather and no vinyl it would have been ~$1,400 for both :eek:
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: 5.0willgo on January 23, 2007, 09:34:02 AM
That looks really good. Some may say that the cost was too much but hey, it put the seats back to factory specs and it was done right. I hope to have mine redone in the '88 within the next few years.
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: DVP on January 23, 2007, 10:38:41 AM
Looks clean with the console and leather. I WANT LEATHER!
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: Chooglin on January 23, 2007, 04:15:40 PM
seats look great.It was worth the money,those seats will be good for life now.
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: Schlodes on January 23, 2007, 08:30:21 PM
Yeah you cuolda got engine mods, but i'd have rather made the car look like it does now inside [NICE BTW!!!!] instead of how it looked before...  that is a night and day change.
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: thunderjet302 on January 23, 2007, 10:24:33 PM
Quote from: Schlodes;125321
Yeah you cuolda got engine mods, but i'd have rather made the car look like it does now inside [NICE BTW!!!!] instead of how it looked before...  that is a night and day change.



It would be cool to have the ~20 extra hp a Cobra intake would have given me but I opted to get the front seats done. The engine bay and exterior look really good but the py looking/feeling front seats were really starting to bug me. After all when I drive the car I sit in it and I want to sit on something comfortable :D
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: CougarSE on January 23, 2007, 10:39:54 PM
Paint that console son.
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: thunderjet302 on January 23, 2007, 10:42:30 PM
Quote from: CougarSE;125384
Paint that console son.



Matches the dash fine. I also cleaned it before I installed it. For some reason in the pics it looks off. I don't know why :dunno:
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: P71 on January 24, 2007, 09:50:43 AM
That interior is AMAZING! Good choice. Definately going into the "save" bin so I'll get Layla's redone when I have money.
Title: Re-covered front buckets
Post by: thunderjet302 on January 24, 2007, 07:01:02 PM
Quote from: Aerobird Motorsports;125446
That interior is AMAZING! Good choice. Definately going into the "save" bin so I'll get Layla's redone when I have money.


You might even be able to have it done for less as you live in a less populated area than Chicago. It seems to me that the further away I go from the city the cheaper I can get interior stuff done and still get the same quality work.


BTW you wouldn't happen to have a driver's side power seat side cover would you? Smoke would be nice but any color would do as I can easily dye it.