Thought I might post my 67 Barracuda progress

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Nice job, like the blue with the stripe. And I like what you did with the seats. Who did 'em and, if you don't mind, what did they cost you?
 
a68postcar said:
and there you have it. pretty nice job. just curious though, all that work and no pics? we love car ****. you should post som more from thr work you've done. pretty nice car.
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I will post some of the "progress" pics this weekend. I am a rank amateur with car restorations, and if it wasn't for this site and the kind and generous folks willing to take the time to answer my questions, I would have never been able to do what I did. There is definitely a huge satisfaction to having a cool car and knowing your own bloody knuckles did the job.
 
clifftt said:
Nice job, like the blue with the stripe. And I like what you did with the seats. Who did 'em and, if you don't mind, what did they cost you?
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Thanks! I went overboard on the bucket seats, but one of my priorities was to get a set of 67 bucket seats with headrests. They were hard to find and I paid $400 for a set that was soaked in rust for a century and smelled like they were barfed on for twice that.

After I spent mucho mucho hours stripping and cleaning up the frames, I ordered the upholstery from Legendary Auto Interiors, which was about $300 for the front buckets and $200 back seat, and another $100ish for the bucket seat foams on ebay.

It really doesn't cost much extra to have Legendary put in a two tone upholstery pattern, and with the white door panels and black interior steel, dash, carpet, etc., I thought the black and white seats would look good (the original seats, both bench, were solid white).

Legendary has some sort of sale about every other month. BTW, I had planned on installing the upholstery myself, but when I saw all the internal lists, I took them to a shop to be installed. I had too much invested to chance screwing up the upholstery installation. Unlike the headliner. I did that myself and it wasn't too bad, and if I totally screwed it up, I was only out a headliner kit, which actually came with the car when I bought it.
 
Robb said:
Very, very nice... what size are the wheels and tires?
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215/45/17 on the front, 245/45/17 rear. I bought the wheels and tires used. After I burn off the rears, I may go with a 255.
 
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