Seat cover questions.

[jgrewe]

Finally getting back on this car('59 B.E). I've had an interior kit in a box for months.

I've gathered all the parts including new pans and foam from AH spares, the rest of the parts came with the car in boxes. I've never seen a complete seat in person and I didn't get to pull the old stuff apart to see how it goes together.

My main questions deal with holding the new covers on the seat bottom and back. The front and sides of the bottoms are obvious, I have clips I picked up from Auveco. The back edge is the puzzle. Is this just a contact cement area? The covers have enough material to wrap under the pan and i don't see a way to hold it any other way cleanly. My pans don't have any 'teeth' slots punched in them like I've seen in a couple pics on the web but it doesn't appear they are used anyway.

When the seat bottom is installed in the lower frame how do the tabs that hold the back down affect the material? Does the lower frame get wrapped with the seat material?

Lastly, how does the cover attach at the bottom of the seat back? Does everything just meet at the bottom edge where the back rests on the lower frame? Or does the reinforcing arch the goes the width of the bottom of the seat back come into play?

Any links to pictures would be worth a 1000 words for sure.

 

[Trevor Jessie]

Was it not Ray that had a series of pictures?

 

[nomad]

Well I hope someone has pics but the back edge of the seat bases use clip's over the raised lip and over the material. The cover is folded over the lip and the clip go's over the cover that is wrapped around the said lip. I'm sure someone has a link.

Kurt.

 

[David_Doan]

Here's a bunch of pics of my seat recovering project: https://doanfamily.net/blog/2012/03/19/the-great-seat-project/

 

[Biff]

Here is a drawing I made for a fellow spridgter showing how the rear of the seat cover is fashioned. You could use some glue in the rear channel to keep things neat and smooth.

 

[jgrewe]

I'm beginning to be able to picture what I need to do, thanks guys. Biff; my seat pan doesn't have a channel like your drawing. It just has a lip that sticks up. It seems that bringing the cover down in front it and flipping it up wouldn't be as solid as wrapping it under and using contact cement.

I think the photos in D. Doan's link help a lot for the seat back. I kind of thought the reinforcing section would come into play. I had to rebuild the lower sections of both seat backs. Very interesting shrinking and stretching a bent piece of 18 ga metal to follow the bend of the seat and still lay flat on the lower frame!

Any idea on wrapping the lower frame with the seat vinyl material. I've seen a few pics of cars with it done but those cars looked like they had nicer interiors that when the car was new. There is also a hole in the center of the front of the lower frame. Maybe a set screw location?

 

[Whitephrog]

I have a bunch of photos on another computer that I would be happy to share. Just send a PM with an email address.