Larry,
I just re-upholstered my bugeye seats and I found the origianl cover to be
attached to the lip of the metal pan at the rear. the rear lip faces up,
the fabric is pushed down on top of the lip and attached with the clips.
Take a good look at the seat that hasn't rotted away and copy that. The
'points' are for strecthing and attaching the fabric when appropriate but
very few were used on mine and the little metal clips were used all the way
around the seat bottom.
I could make a pathetic attempt to display it with ascii characters, here
goes:
The lower case 'N' is the fold of fabric forced down over the upward
pointing lip at the rear edge of the seat pan.
fabric
--------------------------\ ^......clip
seat \-n-
_______________|
back edge of pan ...... ^
Regards, Glen Byrns
----- Original Message -----
From "woodrat" <woodrat at spacey.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 8:38 AM
Subject: Seat Upholstery Attachment????
> Help. The car is apart in the driveway as we speak. On my recently
> purchased "Fully restrored Car", I noticed that the seat bottom
upholstery
> was baggy/unattached at the rear side (pax side). Ever the curious one, I
> lifted it out to see what the ----? The rear portion of the seat pan more
> or less crumbled away in a cloud of rust. After removing the padding and
> upholstery, I ordered a new pan. Last nite the funny brown truck arrived
> with my new shiny ($120) bottom pan from Moss. I got a bunch of little
> clippie things, and adhesive too. I saw how the upholstery was attached
at
> the front with the little clips...no problem. But at the rear of the pan
> there are five half by half inch holes,; each with a little laterally
> pointing "spike" in the opening. If the points were pointing forward I
> would guess I should pierce the vinyl and stretch to the the rear and up
and
> over. But since they point laterally, Im stumped. Forgive the length of
> this.....if youve been there recently maybe the question makes sense. If
> you havent, then no amount of explaination will help much, I guess.
Should
> I just glue the thing on the pan and hope for the best? Gotta think those
> little holes and points have a well engineered purpose!? Thanks. The
> newest Larry.
>
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