Doable, but be careful

3 Stars

On 2/25/2013 12:00:00 AM, Mike Sine from MD

My project 1967 Mustang was meant to teach me more about motors and metal than upholstery. However, significant savings can be realized by doing the upholstery yourself. My son and I estimate a $600 savings doing the badly worn front buckets. That's huge to my wallet. Very little video instruction existed on the web. We quickly learned that the foam and the seat need listing wires in them to install. No listing wires came with the new upholstery. The old seats were missing some and others were damaged, so we made some with drop sealing wire supports from Home Depot. I couldn't find any "listing wire" anywhere on the web. Then bottom upholstery didn't wrap around as far as the original. It didn't even have the same amount of material. We needed upholstery glue to make sure the back of the seat bottom stayed put with the lack of material. Then, the back section tore as we pulled it over the back. I took it to a local vinyl shop, they have done historic cars, and they said the material was too short