Foulplay

[captainofiron]

Originally Posted by Lenie

Hi Marty, the seats were fiero and we cut the headrest off. I scored on 11 darker red italian calf hides we are covering the interior in. My father inlaw who turns 80 this year was an upholsterer by profession refoamed the seats himself and then covered them w/the leather.

those seats look great and really comfortable.

I was thinking to doing something similar. the seats in my 97 Trans Am are amazing, and I have driven thousands of miles in them at a time. So I was thinking to get a set somewhere (ebay or junkyard) and getting them reupholstered to look like the original deluxe interior seats (comfortweave inserts)

I have seen pictures of guys doing it with early 4th gen Camaro seats to make them look like the standard 1st gen firebird seats

[syborg tt]

Originally Posted by captainofiron

those seats look great and really comfortable.

I was thinking to doing something similar. the seats in my 97 Trans Am are amazing, and I have driven thousands of miles in them at a time. So I was thinking to get a set somewhere (ebay or junkyard) and getting them reupholstered to look like the original deluxe interior seats (comfortweave inserts)

I have seen pictures of guys doing it with early 4th gen Camaro seats to make them look like the standard 1st gen firebird seats

TMI Products make a sport seat version and I am looking at those for ease a very little cost.

shown without headrest

[captainofiron]

Originally Posted by syborg tt

TMI Products make a sport seat version and I am looking at those for ease a very little cost.

shown without headrest

those look quite a bit like the original Camaro/standard Firebird seats. Nice.

This is what my deluxe seats look like

[Lenie]

Here's the door panel game plan, trying to keep the look a little nasty so decided to go for an industrial look and show the hardware.





So far....

[Ron in SoCal]

Mad props Lenie. I can see what you meant by interior taking time and patience ...

[WSSix]

Looks great! Did your father help with the door panels as well? I need to learn how to do door panels and such along the way. I can't afford custom and I'd rather not go with stock myself. The red was a good choice against the black exterior.

[Lenie]

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

Mad props Lenie. I can see what you meant by interior taking time and patience ...

Ron, thanks. If I knew what I was doing, it wouldn't take so long. Trial by fire ya know. I ended up running out of perforated so I'm going to send another hide to that place you recommended in Cal... they were good. I've been at this interior now for a couple months and I was laying on the couch the other day thinking, ya know if somebody breaks into my house and robs the place while I'm at work.. please just don't steal the leather hides in the dining room or I'm screwed!!

Originally Posted by WSSix

Looks great! Did your father help with the door panels as well? I need to learn how to do door panels and such along the way. I can't afford custom and I'd rather not go with stock myself. The red was a good choice against the black exterior.

Thanks Trey, I only have him help if I need sewing done. I'm doing the door panels and and center console myself and it's slow going. Alot of time on the computer trying to figure it out. Just the other day I get the inserts done on the passenger side, took me about a day and a half trying to get everything to fit right and wrapped, I then fit them on the main panel and the fit great and suddenly noticed I used regular leather instead of perforated which I used on the drivers side to match the inserts on the seats. It got very loud in my house for the next 5 minutes or so It's hell to get old. It's very nice having Tracy(Recovery Room) and Shannon(Interiors by Shannon) on the board to help and get ideas from, Two extraordinary upholsterers as we all know.

[Ron in SoCal]

Originally Posted by Lenie

...I was laying on the couch the other day thinking, ya know if somebody breaks into my house and robs the place while I'm at work.. please just don't steal the leather hides in the dining room or I'm screwed!!

I know what you mean Lenie! I have an alarm and fulltime armed guard watching my parts room in the house

[waynieZ]

Looking good Lenie. 2 months not bad for how they're coming out.

[Lenie]

Originally Posted by waynieZ

Looking good Lenie. 2 months not bad for how they're coming out.

Thanks Wayne. Ya, what's a couple of months when you look at my start date