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Old 12-25-2001, 12:26 AM
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Default Merry Christmas all - ps. Need some upholstry advice.

Hey all I got a quote from a custom coach interior place of $7-800 Cdn to redo my seats, including foam and top grain leather. Is this a good deal or am I better off buying from Corvette America or any other suggestions. Also will be ordering a top from Al Knock and some NQP interior (dash pad) things from C. A. I hope all of you have a great Christmas and a fantastic New Year.
Always wavin' at y'all from Canada.
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Old 12-25-2001, 12:54 AM
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Default Re: Merry Christmas all - ps. Need some upholstry advice. (gdh)

I think I paid nearly $600 US for seat covers and foam (AL Knock). Sounds like a good deal.
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Default Re: Merry Christmas all - ps. Need some upholstry advice. (gdh)

Sounds like a good deal for me too.

Do they have any references in the area? What covers will they use? Check out this first - its important!

You can do the seats yourself - its not this complicated, but its a longer job and requires some patience.
I once did it myself and all the fellow Vetters were impressed - took about two days, but paid off!

Check for reference!!! My strong advice!
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Default Re: Merry Christmas all - ps. Need some upholstry advice. (gdh)

CA did my seats and they are beautiful. They also fixed the frames and replaced some hardware at no extra charge.

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Default Re: Merry Christmas all - ps. Need some upholstry advice. (Rolling Thunder)

.....seems to be a lot of disparity on seat-covering price and how they are recovered. In Tennessee I paid $750 ea. to have my seats completly re-upholstered in leather (not just a slip-on type deal). The high-quality leather hides I used cost $350/seat by itself. It all looks great, and the smell of all-leather is absolutely heaven even though I had to skip lunch for 6 months to pay for it! Kind regards, and Merry Christmas to all in Canada!

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Default Re: Merry Christmas all - ps. Need some upholstry advice. (gdh)

gdh,
Got the whole inerior pacakagefor my 74 plus the seat covers installed for about $1000. This was leather seat covers and the seat were back in less then 2 weeks. This deal was 2 years ago from Corvette America. I was happy with everything except the quality of the rugs. They were very thin compared to the originals.
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Old 12-25-2001, 08:58 PM
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Default Re: Merry Christmas all - ps. Need some upholstry advice. (gdh)

Sounds pretty high to me, but I'm not up on the exchange rate. Try the following vendor http://www.yankeelady.com/willcox/ they have really good prices.

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