Re: Larry's 1951 Club Sedan Project

Posted by HH56 On 2014/7/15 9:25:41

The seat looks pretty decent. Along with the door panels that will be one nice car.

There is a lot of work to replicate the way the seats were done originally.

I guess there must be some truth to my upholsters comment that Packards method of doing upholstery was different.

My guy said the same thing about the work involved when he did the 54 some years back. Said that car had multiple layers of underlaying structural fabric on the bias and criss-crossed to prevent the outer show fabric from bunching or shifting. He had not seen that done to the extent Packard took it on any other car.

I have asked him to come over and look at the 47 to give me an estimate of how much fabric to order. Said he would gladly do that much but when it came to Packards, he had learned his lesson on giving an estimate for labor in advance the first time.