Re: Larry's 1951 Club Sedan Project

Posted by Larry51 On 2014/6/28 19:14:29

I've now taken the coupe seats to the upholsterer together with the light gray and dark blue broadcloth and dark blue vinyl. The cloth and vinyl from SMS are exact matches for the original colours (says SMS Fabrics). About a week to re-do them. It's fortunate that the old cloth etc is still on the front ones because he can do an exact copy of the style. The rear seats were re-done by the guy I got the car from, but the job was never completed. The brown is totally non-standard so has to go!

The various moths and rodents (including Ratty) have all had a holiday in the seats at some time. I had the car stored on a farm for a couple of years while I built my workshop under the house, and like with most farms there were rodents around.

Upholsterer will hand me back the bare springs and frames when he's taken the old coverings off, so I can clean and paint them. A bit of surface rust present on them now which I don't want to get any worse. Anyway, got to have even the unseen places looking like new on the car, I think I'm obsessive about that but the wife agrees.

The rear seats had been done in brown