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Old 09-15-2021, 08:02 PM
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Default seats are back from the upholstery shop

As the first bit of substantial progress on my 63 Bonne Safari in a while, I thought I would share a pic of my newly reupholstered seats!
I am pleased and left the rear seat with them when I picked up the front buckets.
It has been difficult to find folks who will even take on these jobs in my area.
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Old 09-15-2021, 10:00 PM
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Looks good! I'll be reupholstering my front buckets for my '64 GP as soon as I receive the new seat upholstery covers. I've been waiting for 13 months now and I'm supposed to receive them by the end of the year.

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Looks great!!!

AZ64GP SMS auto interiors?? I placed my order March 2020, still waiting. Need door panels too, but I don’t think I want to loan these guys any more money.

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Got my complete interior from SMS, beautiful stuff. However you haven't waited long enough yet. it took two years to get the door panels, really nice though.

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I have door panels ordered from SMS, as they are the only source I know of. They were ordered nine months ago and "scheduled" to deliver this month, but I am not expecting them. I emailed them to see if they were on schedule to ship and got a reply that the shop would give me an update.....crickets in the three weeks since.

I am glad I found the shop that sewed the seats. They are doing both buckets and the rear seat AND recovering my wagon cargo area hard parts in the matching vinyl for just a little bit more than SMS wanted for the seat upholstery alone!

This is one of the advantages of not having any embossed items in my upholstery pattern.

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Looks great!!!

AZ64GP SMS auto interiors?? I placed my order March 2020, still waiting. Need door panels too, but I don’t think I want to loan these guys any more money.
No, I ordered my seat cover upholstery from another restoration parts vendor. I can’t remember who makes the seat covers but I ordered my front and rear seats in June of 2020. I received my rear seat cover upholstery in May of this year. I have been told my front seat cover upholstery is due to ship 12/29/21. Ugh.

I have heard that SMS makes great stuff but you wait for it. All the delays due to the pandemic have made it even worse.

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If I could never give sms another dime I’d take another route. Wonder if anybody else would have the stuff for 1962 tri tone red.

I know you gotta wait but when I ordered they said 4 months. These things weren’t cheap and you gotta pay all up front.

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If you are just looking for material, you might try Original Auto Interiors...located in Michigan.

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I took the SMS swatches to the upholstery shop and they had no issue getting the appropriate material through their regular suppliers. They used my old seat as a pattern and sewed up what you see in the picture.
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That sounds like the ticket. I live in small town eastern Oregon so it’ll be a miracle if our one upholstery guy can do something like that. I have the swatches Sms sent me still.

SMS I believe stands for “Send My Stuff”.

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That sounds like the ticket. I live in small town eastern Oregon so it’ll be a miracle if our one upholstery guy can do something like that. I have the swatches Sms sent me still.

SMS I believe stands for “Send My Stuff”.
I feel your pain, I live in rural south Mississippi. The trim shop that's doing my work is 1 1/2 hrs away.....

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