<VV> professional repair

[Tony Underwood]

At 10:38 AM 3/2/2010, Harry Yarnell wrote:
>No, you're not a wimp. Upholstery work has to be perfect, or it looks like
>hell.
>I know when to farm out work, and upholstery is one of them.




I hung out with Eddie M. at his workplace which happened to be an 
upholstery shop and did this for about a week while on vacation.   I 
wanted to learn everything I could about car upholstery since it was 
expensive work to have done and I was cheap.



So far, it's been quite helpful... including some tricks about 
headliners... we "scratch-built" a headliner out of a single sheet of 
light blue vinyl material...  traced it, cut it, stitched it, fitted 
it, and installed it in the '67 coupe all in one evening after 
work...  next day we drove the car to the Ft Monroe Virginia Vair 
Fair... with its new homebrew headliner, no longer with sections of 
the old one hanging and flapping in the breeze (car had recently been 
purchased and was getting spruce-up on the fly).

That was almost ten tears ago.    Headliner still looks exactly the 
way it looked then... except better (sunheat shrank the material 
snug, couple of wrinkles in the corners went away).    Total cost was 
about 12 bucks.    And, it was done in a hurry, installed in the car 
via the dome light and a flashlight since we needed to hit the road 
early the next morning.


For my next trick:


Hopefully I'm gonna sorta-reproduce something fairly close to the 
original seats for the '60 4-door, got the materials, only need some 
extra time to do it now.





tony..