69 Notch Barracuda - Rebirth

Good question, and one I’ve been trying to figure out myself, since it had been a while. Your question made me search for a confirmation email containing “foam” instead of “padding,” which I was originally looking for.

So... both the foam and covers were ordered from Classic Industries. The covers were a recent purchase and the box said “Legendary.” But not sure what the foam box said, as these were purchased last Fall. the foam looks exactly like the Classic foam (compared to website pics), however. Ideally, you’d get the covers and foam from the same place.

I’m thinking the slack (caused by pulling hard to take up front slack) in the fabric that had to be taken up in the back might be due to insufficient foam thickness at the sides and coming around the back. As I pulled apart the passenger seat last night, I noticed that the foam was generally MUCH thicker from the original factory construction. That goes for the front of the seat as well. The lack of backer board may have also contributed to too much slack at the top. I’ll find out with the passenger seat. The beauty of this construction is that you can pull them apart and add padding, etc to fix anything.

It seems that many replacement foams are thinner than original. I had the same issue with a set I did years ago. A little trick I learned years ago from an upholstery guy I knew when I was restoring a volkwagen beetle I had was to add an additional layer of foam under the new replacement foam to give it a little more cushion and build it up to keep the cover nice and tight and avoid wrinkles. He also told me to put the covers in the hot sun or in the dryer for a bit to heat them up (not too long obviously, just long enough to make them more pliable). This really helps pull them around the base and stretch them out to fit nice and tight. I was impressed at how well it worked on my car and made the normally rock hard uncomfortable bug seats actually pretty nice. Seats came out nice though. Excuse the non mopar picture.

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