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April 24th, 2009, 12:10 AM
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1966 bucket seat rebuild project underway...
New Legendary covers... New ACI seat buns... New hogring pliers, pile of hogrings, couple yards of burlap... Here we go!
Pulled the seats out tonight, inspected my floor... Very happy to report super solid... Should take me a couple weeks of goofing around on it in the evenings (i've got a 9 month old son, so my hobby time is limited)... I'll post pics and details as i go. 
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Ben R. 1966 Cutlass 330/320hp, HD 3spd Vid: My old elcamino gets owned by a Soccer mom in a volvo! 
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April 24th, 2009, 05:51 AM
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Cool... once your done yours Ben I`ll send mine down
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April 24th, 2009, 06:19 AM
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May 12th, 2009, 11:08 AM
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Seats are done...
 -   -  There are a few wrinkles i need to try and work out with a heat gun, but for my first attempt i'm pretty happy. First seat took me quite a while- Lot of Figuring out the right way to attach the bolster listing wires- redid that first one about 3 times before i got it the way i wanted it. Passenger seat took me about 3 hours total, cranked it right out. Once you know what you are doing it goes fast.
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Ben R. 1966 Cutlass 330/320hp, HD 3spd Vid: My old elcamino gets owned by a Soccer mom in a volvo!
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May 12th, 2009, 11:34 AM
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Great looking job! Actually, about as good as I've ever seen.
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May 12th, 2009, 11:36 AM
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May 12th, 2009, 12:19 PM
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May 12th, 2009, 12:53 PM
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Nice Job Ben....... gotta love new hide under the old hide
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May 12th, 2009, 01:20 PM
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Seats look just like new - great job on doing it yourself!!
How do they feel when you get in 'em? You should sit up a bit higher now with new foam... 
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May 12th, 2009, 02:48 PM
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years ago, i was payin to have a set of seats done and the only buns available were the chinese ones From OPG and the seats turned out terrible. I found out later on that everyone knew (except my upholstery guy apparently) that you HAD to trim & shape them before you could put them in. These were awesome to work with. Now i just have to get a few hours to put my carpet in and i can put the seats back.
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May 12th, 2009, 06:54 PM
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they turned out great and even the right color......PMing my address now you can send fedex ground. I will send my cores ASAP
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May 12th, 2009, 07:17 PM
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Looks great!!
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May 12th, 2009, 07:30 PM
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 What - No dynamat, custom carpet underlayment, dash rebuild, power window addition, power lock addition, stereo upgrade, door and quarter rebuild........? <<Ducking for the forum bombshelter...>> Yea, I got a bit carried away on mine... A torn seat will do that.
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May 12th, 2009, 11:54 PM
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Thanks everybody.
I'm very pleased with how they look, recovering a set of buckets has been something i've wanted to try for a while, but have chickened out and paid people the last 3 project cars...
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May 13th, 2009, 12:46 PM
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Great job, now you can come to my house and help with the 57 when i am ready, I am closer then Richard and I'll supply beer.............
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May 14th, 2009, 10:38 AM
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but i'd be happy to swing over and help!
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May 14th, 2009, 11:09 AM
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  However, beer did allow for some creative thinking to fix my carpet blunder...
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May 14th, 2009, 03:00 PM
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