1965 barracuda seat upholstery kit install difficulty

69FBCuda said
Bob,

I gently straightened one end of the wire enough to push through the burlap, it doesn't have to be perfectly pointed to get it threaded. For the cord I used 1"+ strips of the same burlap and kind of roll twisted and pulled it straight into a rope. The loops on the ends of the wire should be open enough the slip the cord in and on the straight end a pair of needle nose pliers did the trick relatively well.

If took less than an hour to get it to this stage.

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And later using the original listing wires. The ones that were rusty and ragged I ran across a bench grinder wire wheel. These have a brown paper wrap, I used the craft paper from a shipping box with a bit of glue. Then reused most of the original edging felt simply by flipping and repositioning it before applying the hog rings.

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Thanks very much for the details on the installation, it looks great. I'm doing one seat at a time so I can refer back to the second one if I need to, along with pictures of course. I still have to strip the first frame of the old material and prep and paint. I've watched all the appropriate videos from Legendary and the rest seems very straight forward. I am reading about challenges to getting the covers pulled over the foam, so we'll see how it goes.