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johncccc wrote:

Really nice job. Where did you buy your upholstery fabric?

Ive bought an old singer 201. Hoping to persuade Mrs t2r to do the sewing (if she doesnt read this)

The green material came from John Lewis. The contract vinyl (fire resistant) and foam came from http://www.foamforhome.co.uk/store/Scripts/default.asp

I lined all of the viny with 3mm scrim foam and used 12mm scrim foam for the quilting on the centre panels.

I also used 3mm scrim foam behind the vinyl on the door panels.

Total materials cost was less than £200 to do all seats and replace panels. I must have got through about 7 or 8 cans of spray glue!

That is so impressive - looks fabulous. My OH is working hard on gearbox and curing rust and respraying. He has done an amazing job on interior but the seats are dreadful, threadbare and bursting. May I ask how you got the 'template'/pattern for the sear covers? I can sew but hopeless at working out how to do things. OH just looks at things and he knows what he is doing. He recarpetted the whole of the van and like you we took out shares in spray glue. Yours looks amazing.

Looks really good, you'd be happy paying for the seat covering. Did you cover the headrests as well?

Not wishing to risk my seats ( if it all went horribly wrong ) I brought a pair of old front seats that were in a bad way. I think I paid £40 for the two. By coincidence they were also out of a Holdsworth conversion. I disassembled the old covers and used them as patterns. I choose to use brown vinyl rather than leather again just in case it went wrong. At £10 a metre for the vinyl it would not be so bad if I had to chuck it all away. I sprayed the headrests with brown vinyl dye to match. They were previously blue\grey. I don't know how well this is going to last but at the moment they look good.

Lovely job, looks awesome!!

Any chance of more pics of the bed in action and the access door , interested in doing something similar but wasn't sure about cutting the ply base out! I have r&r brackets bolted to ply !!

Thanks

The bed is just a standard rock and roll action. Nothing to show really.

I did post some pics a while back here: https://club8090.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.p ... 2#p7983360