[Fot] TR6 Seats

[Glenn Franco]

Bobby
I just went through this with my 74 TR6 (made from 3 cars)
TRF had the seat foam kits on sale for just under $300 and if you act 
now you can get the Victoria Brit (winter sale) Vinyl covers on sale for 
a fairly reasonable cost.
I've purchased seat covers for Spits and TR's from Moss and Vic Brit and 
I have to assume that there are only so many suppliers  in the British 
Car Supplier pipeline and I think they are selling the same stuff.
Go with the lowest cost as it will likely be from the same supplier.
These seat covers are incredibly simple to recover especially if you buy 
new seat foams. Try to do it yourself. I just purchased the stuff to do 
on a 74. My wife and I cut and sewed a new set for our 71 and we have 
recovered TR7's and MGB's.
The other option is the Miata seats, which are reasonable and look good 
in the car. I have a couple sets of those as well. The problem is 
mounting and what is out there is a whole lot of steel to put them in a TR.
Good Luck
Glenn Franco
72 Spit racer, 76 spit and several TR's

Bobby Whitehead wrote:
> I've got the whole dash and windscreen off my '71 TR6 replacing the wooden dash and the crash pad. The seats are out and need to be rebuilt. My problem is cost effective money to rebuild the seats. Moss Motors has probably the nicest set on the market but covers, foam, and misc doodads are over $2000.00 plus having a shop do the work...dang near $1500 a seat... ouch... VickyBrit has a set for a little over $1000.00 with pads, and doodads... We spent $5000 on a complete soda blasting and respray of the original paint last year (the car has never been wrecked or damaged,ever)... the car looks like a million bucks... just having a had time justifying $3000 for new seats.... I've even looked on eBay this morning and there's a company building new aluminum rally seats with your choice of color for the $350 range each... Any ideas FoT?
>
> Bobby Whitehead
> 1971 TR6
> 1970 GT6 CVAR DP #39
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