Hello All,
I spent Saturday morning taking the car around to all the car uphosltry
shops in SF getting estimates for work I want done. (trying to make the car
look good for shasta.) MAN IS IT EXPENSIVE!!! I had no idea....really I
did not. Here's the work I wanted done. Fit the full tonneau cover, make
up some custom sun visors, rebuild the seats and fit seat upholstry from CDM,
do up a custom arm rest with a hidden spot for my microwave alarm sensor and
and pocket for my cd changer controller. plus do a little bit of custom sewing
for me....It'll cost me probably 900 bucks to do this!! This does not include
the prices of the CDM seat covers.... MAN THAT HURTS. Are upholstry prices just
way stupid higher in SF or is that the going rate for quality work??
An aside on upholstry shops... I visited three shops in SF that day and
found that I could tell a lot about the people jsut by talking to them. Did
they take the time to listen to what I wanted done?? Where they pleasant to
deal with? I also checked out their work. Either in pictures or what was in
the shop at the time. I also felt that the longer the shop had been around
they more likely they were to do a quality job. But you have to ask if its the
original people still doing the work. Two shops in town advertise 'since 1960'
or what not. The thing is the original people have retired and sold thier shop
to some
hack artist who is ruining their good name.
So the place I picked has been in buisiness for a long time 30+ years
with the same people still doing the work..they even had a ton of groovey
pictures from the 70's of interiors they had done. The people where nice and
took time to hear my crazy ideas and I just got the feeling that they really
cared about what they do still.
For the BADROC'ers its called AA top and trim right off alemany on
seneca its theh shop Mike Young uses to do his interiors and he also says
nice things about them... though they are not cheap but I was not able to
find a 'cheap' good quality place.. maybe I need to go down to TJ to get a
100dollar tuck and roll job....
Oh I decided to stay with vinyl the shop convinced me that marine
grade vinyl was the only way to go.
Daniel 69 2000
SF CA
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