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Old 10-24-2005, 10:39 AM
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Car: 1991 Trans Am GTA
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in search of leather for my seats, and fixing rusty frame

The leather is a little worn on my driver's side leather seat in my 1991 GTA. I took it to an upholdstery guy, and he said If he replaced the panel of the leather, it wouldn't be as tight as if I bought the entire leather slip from GM. Besides going to the dealer and spending a TON of cash, does anyone know where I can replacement leather?

Also... for some reason, there is some surface rust on the frame of one of my seats, but not the other. Should I ignore it? repair it? replace the frame?

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Car: 1987 GTA
Engine: LT1
Transmission: T56
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I found a place that has the leather seat covers for the GTA seats, but they were around $1000 for the set (only way to buy them). I have to recover the seats in my GTA and I'm going to go with the Hampton Vinyl that Hawks has, but again you have to buy the whole set. I don't know of any place that will sell just one seat cover.
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Klortho, thanks for the fast response. Can you get the information for both Hampton Vinyl and the leather seat cover place?

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Do the leather seat covers include that plastic trim on the side that is sown on the seat?
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http://www.carmotorsports.com/leather.htm is one of them

They do sell single covers

One(1) Front Seat Cover w/Headrest Cover...................................$649.95

The other is from Hawk's, it's supposed to be close to leather "leather like" and doesn't include the plastic.

This is from the carmotorsports.com site

This is the moment that many of you have been waiting for-after nearly 200 hours of effort and substantial monetary investment, CAR Motorsports now has available for you the TTA Leather Replacement Seat Covers.

The leather is the original leather used on our cars; exact in every way to include the perforated leather. We are absolutely delighted with the finished product, it is perfect. Our manufacturer has used state of the art materials in the backing, padding and ozite; all of which far exceed our original equipment, thereby increasing usage life.

Therefore these new covers have been produced to appear exact as the original but will provide the service life we all had originally hoped for but never received. Please note that we also have available GM Licensed Custom Embroidered Headrest Covers.

The photos above are of the seat covers installed on the 1988 TTA Design Check Vehicle's seats. Your seat covers will be made and shipped within 10 days of placing your order. As always there is free shipping and handling at CAR Motorsports.

The numerous options and ordering information is provided below.

GTA/TTA Exact Replacement Leather Seat Covers

Available in: BLACK, CAMEL, GREY

One(1) Front Seat Cover w/Headrest Cover...................................$649.95
Two(2) Front Seat Covers w/Headrest Covers...............................$1299.95
One(1) Rear Seat Cover...........................................................$399.95
Two(2) Rear Seat Covers..........................................................$799.95
One(1) Complete Front/Rear Seat Covers w/Headrest Covers.............$1999.95
Two(2) GM Licensed Custom Embroidered Headrest Covers................$174.95
Two(2) GM Licensed Custom Embroidered Headrest Material Only.........$99.95


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