Thread: what should I expect $$$$ to have the interior done in my '39 coupe????

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My friend has a upholstery/glass shop, so mine are done cheap. He has found that ultra leather does not hold up. Use something like ultra soft.

we just did a 34 vikki, front buckets, back seat extended, door/quarter panels, headliner, trunk, carpet, and firewall. with this being our first car out of our accual business, only with 3 other completes on personals/ friends cars. and this 34' came out to a total of 6 large. this with things done the "right way" aka, absolutly no showing screws, pins, and clips and what not. we have written an estimate on a 36 plymoth complete minus front seats and insulating for 5500 and its coming to us this winter. just another insight..

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Boy you guys are getting a great deal. In So. Cal. you can't get anything nice for those prices.
Ken

I agree!
I had my 55 done in 2003, included carpet, ultraleather, custom 1 pc headliner, custom door panels, custom bins in the trunk w/ upholstered deck lid & I spent about 10k.
I spent $1500 just having a few mods to my roadster seat & door panels.

I did my own... I bought custom fit seat covers for the Hyundai Elantra seats in my coupe and did the rest myself. I bought pleated vinyl material for the door panels, kick panels, rear firewall, and headliner and I got plain matching vinyl to cover the window sills, rear cab corners, etc. The stuff I bought is made for boats and is very durable. Total cost was about $450.

Hmmmm... I just discovered I don't have any really good pics of my interior. Here's a couple that show a little of it...

J Robinson, Fantastic, I love good work that is inexpensive. What is the source/type of the pleated material. Long ago and far away I sewed alternate red and grey vinyl "tubes" that I partially filled with cotton for a dash in a '47 Ford but now i just want to mount flat coverings and be done with it!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Hi Don,

I bought my seat covers online from Seatcovers Unlimited. They have custom fit seatcovers for just about every car made in the last 30 years. Big selection of materials, too. They were a real wrestling match to install because they fit so snug, but they look like they were made on the seats. Here's the link:
http://www.seatcoversunlimited.com/

I got the pleated material and plain material online from Gary's Upholstery Products LLC. They have all kinds of stuff. I went to the marine upholstery section and got exactly what I was looking for. Here's the link to them:
http://www.garysupholstery.com/

For anyone who wants to know, I used a Dynamat type insulating material on the firewall, floor, and ceiling. I made my door, kick, and side panels out of 1/4" weather resistant luan plywood. I simply cut it to shape, pre-drilled all the holes, applied the vinyl with 3M spray adhesive, folded the edges over & stapled to the back, and screwed the panels in place with stainless steel self-drilling screws and chrome escutcheon washers. The headliner is masonite hardboard done the same way, but without the staples. The curved rear cab trim panels are made of 1/8" lexan that I heated with an electric heat gun and curved to fit. After jig-sawing the holes for the speakers, I applied the plain vinyl with 3M spray adhesive. The trim pieces above the doors, the door window sills, and the header above the windshield were made from a variety of aluminum flat stock and angle. After shaping the pieces to fit, I covered them with the plain vinyl applied with 3M adhesive. The carpet is indoor-outdoor Berber from the local flooring store, cut to fit. The sill plates are made from ordinary aluminum floor edge trim from ACE Hardware...

I got the interior of my '40 ford sedan done for 2800, includes all thermo insulation and full carpet in the trunk. This was done in May of this year and I am very happy with the look. It is done in real tuck and roll just like we had in the fifties! This was done in Anthony, NM

blue and tans work really well together, as well as blues and greys . I don't understand how he can give you a ball park now with out knowing what materials you are going to be using. the costs of materials available to us run the gammet to say the least from cheap vinyl to the best of leathers not to mention the carpeting that is available, then you can add quailty of foams to that list . I am curious to know what the final bill is when it's all done and what materials you 2 choose to work with. plus you know we're going to need pics !!
ps.
I'm not doubting that this guy is a quality trimmer in any way either !!

Prices vary depending on the rep of the shop. I had a complete interior done for my '32 3 window for $3500, including the trunk and only took 5 days. My buddy went to a big named shop, waited 6 months and paid $8000.

just saying... quality material costs bucks. so for him to do a literal "complete" job on that car, he couldnt have made much money "IF" he used good stuff.!! aka... abs, instead of panel board or cardboard as seen (when wet, warp) and quality vinyl and quality carpet... sure literally ANY shop can do a cheap job, but it does cost money to do it right. IMO.

for our first car, we barely made money on a 6 g interior... simply because of what was stated above..!