Re-covered front buckets 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. Quote Selected
Re-covered front buckets Reply #2 – January 21, 2007, 08:08:11 PM Oh yeah I also installed a console :D Quote Selected
Re-covered front buckets Reply #3 – January 21, 2007, 08:11:03 PM This is what it looked like before:hick: Quote Selected
Re-covered front buckets Reply #4 – 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. Quote Selected
Re-covered front buckets Reply #5 – 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. Quote Selected
Re-covered front buckets Reply #6 – January 21, 2007, 09:50:56 PM nice!!!!!!!!!!!very nice!!!! Quote Selected
Re-covered front buckets Reply #7 – 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. Quote Selected
Re-covered front buckets Reply #8 – 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? Quote Selected
Re-covered front buckets Reply #10 – January 22, 2007, 09:59:43 PM Quote from: Paul Flockhart;125019Thank 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: Quote Selected
Re-covered front buckets Reply #11 – 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. Quote Selected
Re-covered front buckets Reply #12 – January 23, 2007, 10:38:41 AM Looks clean with the console and leather. I WANT LEATHER! Quote Selected
Re-covered front buckets Reply #13 – January 23, 2007, 04:15:40 PM seats look great.It was worth the money,those seats will be good for life now. Quote Selected
Re-covered front buckets Reply #14 – 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. Quote Selected
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