{FORGED?} Re: Doc's Seats (Gwynn Smith - read!)

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On August 16, 2005 Frank Swygert wrote:

> I feel for you Doc! I seem to recall Gwynn Smith sent her material off to have seat covers made and had someone else install them. Maybe that's an option? I know Gwynn was well pleased with the results, and I'm sure she'll be happy to supply contact info. Shipping the material across the country and back isn't what you had in mind I know, but looks like you're going to have to go out of town anyway.
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> I forget where in New York you are, but surely someone on the list can recommend an upholstery shop at least within an easy drive of your location! Might have to go an hour or two one-way, or do something like Gwynn did and send the material to some shop that has patterns already.
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> I just might have to make plans to meet you somewhere and take pics of the two Hornets! Would make a great story...
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> On August 15, 2005 Mr. AMC wrote:
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> > I don't know what to say, I am frustrated, upset and mad at the same time. After calling the upholstery shop on and off for the last 8 weeks I still can't get even one of my Hornets bucket sets done. Today's reply to may call was "vee ave zee Porsche und Mercades dealers to take care of first, call back again. What is my money not green enough!!!!! The only other upholstery shop is run by a drug addict and you are lucky if you get your stuff back in a year. The other local shop the owner died. After working on this interior job since mid Feb it may be done by mid Sept with old ratty bucket seats. I am speechles, I want to kick the dog, my wife, her mother if she still was alive and all of her brain dead sisters or anything. The only good part of today is the rust patch in the floor is spot welded in and will be permantly welded in tomorrow. For my whole life I have scrimped and saved to work on my cars, I raised 3 kids and now I have some money and don't care what the se!
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> >  pholstery costs and I can't get it done. SHOOT ME!!!!!! Sorry for the rant. Time for a few glasses of wine before the wife of 36 years comes home to give me greif about Hornet interior parts in th house.
> > "Doc"
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I saw the pic's of Gwen's interior and it is beautiful. Since I could not find any Hornet bucket seats locally in the tri-state area I bought Javelin ones. Not the big bulky looking plastic backed ones. These look almost like the Hornet ones. Having seat covers made and installing them myself is really not an option as the foam on the seats needs to be repaired or replaced in a few area's. I had no problem getting the insert material from where you told me Frank and figured that would be the major problem and it wasen't. I think I just need to fall back and re-group on the seat thing and continue on with the rest of the interior work while I work this seat problem out. The spot welded patch in the floor was welded in solid today and the floor cleaned and painted. Tomorrrow I will re-seal the factory body seams and the floor patch with a product eastwood sells. I have the Dynamat Extreme for this last section of the floor. If worse comes to worse I will just buy a set of them!
  cheap tie on seat covers the kids use on their ricers for now. I am on the Bronx, N.Y. City line Frank in Yonkers, 15 min. from the George Washingtom Bridge.
"Doc"



         







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