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Old Jan 12, 2009 | 11:06 PM
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I have stock cloth seats in my car, thinking of having them custum syn leather not sure on color I wanted to see some of yours that you have modded with leather or swaid and the colors.
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Old Jan 13, 2009 | 11:25 PM
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go to katskinz.com
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Old Jan 14, 2009 | 01:06 AM
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just rip it out, and get it professionally done w/ black leather
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Old Jan 14, 2009 | 01:30 AM
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Yea agree with ^^^^^^
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Old Jan 14, 2009 | 01:37 AM
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for the cost of recovering you could get racing seats that are ultimately more comfortable, but it really depends if you still want the stock look
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Old Jan 14, 2009 | 01:57 AM
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I did mine a few months back, sorry for the old and shitty cell phone pics. I'll be taking new pics after I redo the door panels.


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Old Jan 14, 2009 | 05:33 AM
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how much did it cost to do that to your seats?
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Old Jan 14, 2009 | 12:12 PM
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how much did it cost to do that to your seats?
$425 shipped from Hawks Third Gen, then I installed them myself in an afternoon.
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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 03:10 PM
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any more pics or ideas
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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 05:27 PM
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I started a hottest interior thread a few years back or so, do a search you're not exactly the first one to want to see a custom interior lol!
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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 06:38 PM
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this is what i did.
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Originally Posted by Counted Out
I did mine a few months back, sorry for the old and shitty cell phone pics. I'll be taking new pics after I redo the door panels.



I'm in the process of doing mine. i spent $250 at a shop to have the seat covers installed on the front seats and have the plastic pieces sewn on the sides... once i got them home i realized i could not get the uppers to assemble right so i ended up taking them back to have the rest of the seats assembled...so i've spent almost $700 so far if you count the hawks upholstery i bought and i'm praying the front seats will be useable.

here are some pics showing the current progress. I'm waiting on a handle for the rear seat and hopefully it will be done and back in the car in a few days as long as the JB weld job i had to do on a bolt that the spot welds broke on while taking out the handle i'm replacing (we basically had to destroy the handle to get it off after it stripped)













the lower rear seats are done and ready to go back in



and so are the headrests (they are at the upholstery shop now so they can be installed in the seats but i put the upholstery on them myself along with the upper and lower back seats)




the camaro seats i'm sure are much easier than the T/A seats are.
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Old Jan 22, 2009 | 10:59 PM
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thats neat, not a bad home project
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Old Jan 23, 2009 | 08:48 AM
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if i were to spend 400 on recovering my seats i would just get racing seats for around that price..
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Old Jan 23, 2009 | 09:02 AM
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This spring/early summer I plan to have mine (or probably another set since mine or perfect and it would be a shame to ruin them) done in black leather with some orange stitching and black ostrich skin inserts. It sounds weird but the way I am doing it will look good. The ostrich skin will be very subtle since it will be the same color as the rest of the seat and the orange stitching will only be the outside main stitching....the rest will be black and in the same pattern and shape as stock.
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Old Jan 23, 2009 | 11:04 AM
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I sketched out the pattern of the seats/door panels and let my interior guy go to town.

You'll notice subtle changes...only 4 "bars" in the seats' centers, centers don't carry over to seats' front edge, red double stitch, continued design on door panels.







I had my amp rack covered to match (all black) the rest of my interior.


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Old Jan 23, 2009 | 01:16 PM
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Heres my seats:





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Old Jan 23, 2009 | 11:34 PM
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A few peeps have used TeoCals (in Fort Worth, Texas). They did mine and was very reasonable..

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Old Jan 24, 2009 | 12:04 AM
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jim try classic soft trim in the rocks they can do anything or theres a guy named bob that does them up on burchfield road out of his house and hes really good and cheap
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