Re: KPack's 1954 Panama

Posted by kevinpackard On 2023/12/4 17:15:41

Spoke to SMS. Seat covers would be ~$3500 (if I remember correctly) and lead time is minimum 6 months. If I were to do actual leather instead of vinyl, that lead time goes up to at least a year. And the cost for the leather is nearly $1000 just for a few yards. It would likely need several hides. I'm not willing to wait an unknown amount of time for the covers to be done, as I plan to drive the car a lot this summer.

Spoke to a semi-local upholsterer that does classics, and it looks like it would be $4500 for complete new covers and installation (add $250 to powder coat the seat frames). They say it would probably be 4 yards of the blue nylon fabric, and 4 yards of ivory vinyl (to make the piping). With the 10% discount that SMS is doing right now, that puts the material cost around $950-$1000.

Those of you who have had interiors done, what are your thoughts? I know it will be expensive. Just trying to get an idea of what others have done.

-Kevin