I have been in the process of trying to restore the interior. I have been looking into the GM Strato Bucket Seats that were original to these cars. A restored pair sells on ebay for $1400.00, worn out seat cores sell for about $200.00 a pair. I first found a pair of seats from a 1969 GTO, these are the black ones in the pictures, purchased for $200.00. A few months later I found the white pair from a 1969 Chevelle for $200 as well but they did not come with head rests. I decided to work with what I had and swap the headrests & trim parts from the GTO seats to the Chevelle seats and to dye everything black. I have one seat completed and the second is not far behind. All I did was separate the upper & lower seat frames so I could clean them & paint them with Duplicolor Vinyl & Carpet dye. I cleaned the plastic trim pieces and coated them with Duplicolor spray on Chrome, it isn't perfect but it looks OK for my needs. Here are the before and after pics. [/IMG] [/IMG] [/IMG] [/IMG] </TD><TD class=td2 unselectable="on">This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 800x600 and has a filesize of 191KB. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>[/IMG] [/IMG] [/IMG] The finished product. <!-- / message --><!-- controls -->
Wow! Nice restoration and you saved a ton of money by using a little elbow grease. That leaves extra $$ for more buick parts!
Thanks Randy. The resto on the whole car is almost complete. The extra $$$ will eventually go towards a posi rear.
