[fatelvis]

Upholstery is my great white whale. I'm not the best at it but I love trying.
I built the door panels when I installed the dash back in 12'. Using faux leather may not sound exotic, but it sure holds up better than leather. The seats are from a 17' Caddy XT5, I had to do some modifying of the floor in order to get them to fit right. I am 6'4" so I basically built this whole interior around me. Notice how far back the 8-way seats go...Awesome! Sick of having my head hit the headliner and knees bowing out over the console, who needs a back seat, my kids are grown up anyway. Rear seat area was extended with a "waterfall console" and used the basic rear seat foam from the caddy as well. A LOT of fitting, filling, and supporting of these pieces to make them right. Probably should have just started from scratch with bulk foam...live and learn. Thanks to Nick at High Torque Racing Upholstery shop, He did an excellent job matching the leather design on the fronts! Good friends are priceless! The seats are real leather, have to treat them often to keep them soft. Notice the back package tray, sweated over this design for a week, scrapped three other designs half way through. Much wasted material on my floor. Center console remained from the previous build, had to remake the top plate as I moved the engine /trans foreword an inch rendering the shifter bezel useless. Thanks to Leroy Hicks for cutting the shift bezel out for me. I draw a design on graph paper and email it to him, He cuts it on his waterjet table. He also made my throttle cable bracket and steering arms. The guy is awesome and really takes care of me.
One more thing, bead rolled a line in the aluminum sail panels, it's so subtle that I forgot about it. These details where no notices are what makes a car special, IMHO.