New seats

[Bob Bischoff]

Not being able to afford some high bolster Renegade seats. I tried to make some myself.



Made the bolsters and then did the upholstery for a total of about $70. Need to start on the passenger side soon before I forget how.





Bob

[Markeydoo]

Bob
Nice work. Do you have demensions and materials used. Thanks
Mark

[tat2dphreak]

great work, now how fast can you do the rest of ours?

[Scooter311]

Hats off to some fine work!

[mike_the_man]

You upholstered your seats yourself? Is this something that is easy to do? Did you have a kit? Please explain! I'd love to redo my seats just like you did, but I'm not sure where to begin. The local upholstery shop wants about $1000 to do it, so I would much rather do it myself. You did a fantastic job!

[Bob Bischoff]

Originally posted by mike_the_man
You upholstered your seats yourself? Is this something that is easy to do? Did you have a kit? Please explain!

Did it myself no kit but did have some help. A freind has a industrial sewing machine and had done some upholstery work before. He showed me how to do it to and let me use his machine.
But after doing this I found a shop in town that will do the seats for $125 and furnish the materials on my modified bases. I may let them do the next one.


Bob

[John2kx]

Bob,

That does look good!!!

John

[sean_V8_914]

You sir, are teh king of V8 frugal 914 Scooby delux-ness. what type of filler is the blue?

[WOODPIE]

Looks good, Bob! Lot's of satisfaction from doing it yourself, too, I'd bet!

I gotta do that myself one of these days.

Ed

[Michel J]

Bob,

Those seats look fantastic. Very cool!! How and what did you use to attach the side bolsters. What are the side bolsters made of? If I could figure that out, my local upholstry place would recover each seat for $100. Not in vynil of course.

Thanks,

Michel

[Michel J]

Oh, sorry, I spoke too soon and did not let the other photos load. Is that 3/4 inch plywood?

Michel

[Bob Bischoff]

Its 3/4" plywood like you guessed. I bolted them on and then filled the gaps with body filler (BONDO) this sticks great to the fiberglass and plywood. I then put a couple of layers of fiberglass over it. On the next one I don't think I'll do the fiberglass they seem strong enough with the bolts and bondo. I'd also make the back bolsters a little larger.

Bob

[Bob Bischoff]

Here is a better pix of the shape.



Bob

[Zeke]

Hey Bob, that's great! Which car is that? It can't be the CA car, that would be too fast to have it look that good!!