Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on a set of true 69' deluxe seats that came with Deuce, but I'm restoring and installing them in Ducky. They had been exposed to the elements for quite some time.
1) I took a bunch of pictures first, ever so important with upholstery.
2) I then stripped the seats down to the raw frames, including removing the springs and even the sheet metal plates that hold the springs at the front of the frames.
It's truly is a can of worms. You start with re-padding and recovering in mind, end up with sheet metal repairs, sandblasted frames complete replacement of springs and padding then you get to recover them.
3) I separated each of the petrified vinyl pieces from each other hoping to use them as patterns. The sun had shrunk some areas and not others, making it difficult to determine the true size of the pieces, so you guess, measure and hope you cut the new pieces large enough, but not too large.
4) Being a novice upholsterer, I watched dozens of You Tube videos, dozed off during some of them then finally mustered up the courage to start sewing the pieces together.
Here's a Before shot of the driver side seat back:
Driver Seat Back Before.jpg
Here's a test fit of the new seat back cover. No padding or springs installed yet, hence the wrinkles. Not perfect, but more than adequate for my needs.
Driver Seat Back New Cover Test Fit.jpg
Good stuff!