68 GT convertible project
Here's an update on the seats.
The car sat with the top down for a long time. The seat frames were badly rusted and mice had eaten the seat foam. There was no way I was going to store them inside my house so I went ahead and had them redone right away.
I had the upholstery shop strip the seats down. One of the seat back springs basically fell apart while they were disassembling it. They had some spring material on hand and replaced it. The seat frames then went to the powder coater. I had him do some rust repair on the frames before he coated them.
The rear frames were in good shape. They just needed to be blasted and coated.
The frames turned out nice. The upholstery shop wraps the springs in a material that really stiffens them up. They did the same thing to my Challenger seats. It really makes them feel new.
I still need to buy to new hinge covers since two of mine are junk. I also have to restore the seat tracks and buy new seat back cardboard panels. I was missing one seat medallion but I found one online. The original ones had some slight pitting on the inside recesses. What I ended up doing is spraying them with SEM Trim Black. Then I used laquer thinner to wipe off the paint from the outside of the medallion. That left black paint on the inside which hides the minor pitting.
Here's an update on the seats.
The car sat with the top down for a long time. The seat frames were badly rusted and mice had eaten the seat foam. There was no way I was going to store them inside my house so I went ahead and had them redone right away.
I had the upholstery shop strip the seats down. One of the seat back springs basically fell apart while they were disassembling it. They had some spring material on hand and replaced it. The seat frames then went to the powder coater. I had him do some rust repair on the frames before he coated them.
The rear frames were in good shape. They just needed to be blasted and coated.
The frames turned out nice. The upholstery shop wraps the springs in a material that really stiffens them up. They did the same thing to my Challenger seats. It really makes them feel new.
I still need to buy to new hinge covers since two of mine are junk. I also have to restore the seat tracks and buy new seat back cardboard panels. I was missing one seat medallion but I found one online. The original ones had some slight pitting on the inside recesses. What I ended up doing is spraying them with SEM Trim Black. Then I used laquer thinner to wipe off the paint from the outside of the medallion. That left black paint on the inside which hides the minor pitting.