The Restoration is not DEAD!

OK, it is has been a long time since this blog was updated, but a lot has happened in the interim. VIN 1470 is now is Texas, I sold it to a friend who is doing the restoration. The reason I sold it was due to a job change for my wife which has us moving out of the state. Two cars just couldn't make the move, so I decided to sell 1470 and continue on the project I had started. It took some time for our house to sell, and I didn't move the car to the new house until then. So the project has been stalled for some time due to the car being roughly 5 hours away.

The newly recovered seats.

But the car is now back in my garage, and I'm slowly getting back into it. A while back I had purchased some of the new DMC seat covers that someone bought, installed them in their car and then decided they wanted to go concours, so they removed them. It was a pretty sweet deal for basically new seat covers so I picked them up. A friend of ours used to do upholstery work in Detroit and worked for almost every major auto maker doing prototype work, and custom upholstery for Leer jets, so I asked her if was willing to re-cover my seats. Needless to say she did a great job at installing the new seat covers. They will look great when they are re-installed into the car.

And at a cost of only $75 for the installation of the new covers, including the cost of the rings it was a good deal too. Take a look and tell me what you think.