Where are you located?? We are in Michigan.
We could help
Glenn
Glenn Franco wrote:
> Bobby
> I just went through this with my 74 TR6 (made from 3 cars)
> TRF had the seat foam kits on sale for just under $300 and if you act
> now you can get the Victoria Brit (winter sale) Vinyl covers on sale
> for a fairly reasonable cost.
> I've purchased seat covers for Spits and TR's from Moss and Vic Brit
> and I have to assume that there are only so many suppliers in the
> British Car Supplier pipeline and I think they are selling the same
> stuff.
> Go with the lowest cost as it will likely be from the same supplier.
> These seat covers are incredibly simple to recover especially if you
> buy new seat foams. Try to do it yourself. I just purchased the stuff
> to do on a 74. My wife and I cut and sewed a new set for our 71 and we
> have recovered TR7's and MGB's.
> The other option is the Miata seats, which are reasonable and look
> good in the car. I have a couple sets of those as well. The problem is
> mounting and what is out there is a whole lot of steel to put them in
> a TR.
> Good Luck
> Glenn Franco
> 72 Spit racer, 76 spit and several TR's
>
> Bobby Whitehead wrote:
>> I've got the whole dash and windscreen off my '71 TR6 replacing the
>> wooden dash and the crash pad. The seats are out and need to be
>> rebuilt. My problem is cost effective money to rebuild the seats.
>> Moss Motors has probably the nicest set on the market but covers,
>> foam, and misc doodads are over $2000.00 plus having a shop do the
>> work...dang near $1500 a seat... ouch... VickyBrit has a set for a
>> little over $1000.00 with pads, and doodads... We spent $5000 on a
>> complete soda blasting and respray of the original paint last year
>> (the car has never been wrecked or damaged,ever)... the car looks
>> like a million bucks... just having a had time justifying $3000 for
>> new seats.... I've even looked on eBay this morning and there's a
>> company building new aluminum rally seats with your choice of color
>> for the $350 range each... Any ideas FoT?
>>
>> Bobby Whitehead
>> 1971 TR6
>> 1970 GT6 CVAR DP #39
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