Jeff... I haven't had a good winter but I'm pushing forward, trying to stay busy. Wanted to talk to you about my door panel fixes. Is there any way to get in touch (email, text, phone)?

Mike

Thats really nice work on the seams... nice and flat and tight.

Just an update on this project... the seats turned out pretty much as planned.
Had to modify the seat rails a bit to retrofit the Pontiac Trans Am donors. Drivers side was minor cutting and re-drilling of the rear mounting holes. The passenger side was much more involved, had to fabricate new rear legs in steel, weld them up, and then cut old rears off and weld the new legs on. I wanted to make sure that the seats actually bolted up to the original F-Body floor pan mounts for safety's sake.

Fabricated cardboard legs to get size and position then transferred design to 1/8" steel. Also built a wooden jig to ensure that the seat rails were parallel and level wile I was fabricating the mounts.

The door panels didn't come out as nice as the seats. I'm going to have to find someone local to the Springfield, MA area that I can work with to re-do the door panels. The shop was a bit of a drive and I couldn't stay on top of the project. They double layered the original door panels when I thought they would use new cards so everything got too puffy and thick. Aside from the thickness problem they look OK at a glance but closer inspection showed seams mismatched by over an inch from to rear panels.

Hi Jeff... Do you have a link to a website, Facebook, or Instagram? Any way to contact you other than here? Would like to see some of your work.-Mike

How are you attaching the foamed PVC sheets to the steel top rails? Staples, Glue, Rivets? DO the foamed PVC sheets hold staples well when you're wrapping an edge? TIA-Mike

The job is in progress... did some additional sketches to kill time. The 1st shot shows the original seat that's being re-done to get the new contours. Second shot is just an exercise in Photoshop rendering.

[img]http://
[img]http://

Thanks for the props Bob... I'm hoping it turns out great as well. I opted for the small chevy bowtie only because its blue LOL. James has the pattern on his Brother machine, hopefully we can scale it to 2-1/4" wide. I don't know if its infinitely scaleable there might be pre-programmed sizes so we'll do a test sample. He's done some cars with LED beads and I am tempted to outline that "Hockey" stripe section with a blue LED and have that go on when the doors are opened. There's no electricity in the doors right now but I did get the OEM rubber boots that allow wiring to pass through to the doors from the fender bulkhead. Not going with power windows at this time its a big project, but I do have a set of power bullet style mirrors that I might adapt (need some bodywork). I'll post up pix when its all done.-Mike