1960 bug seat repair

[wayne1230cars]

When I bought my ‘60 bug 9 years ago, the previous owner had installed a set
of TMI seat covers. He did a decent job but many of the prongs were broken and you could see the seat tubing along with the torn vinyl.

A $4.99 purchase at Home Hardware of 1/8 inch plastic coated landscaping rod ( 3 - 42 inch rods) and few hours of time really improved the look. Not show but OK. I used 4 pieces of rod per seat (about 13 inches each) and used some rivets where the prongs had broken.

It looks a whole lot better than it did.

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1960 beetle
1970 beetle convertible

[meranda]

Nice work. It's only been two years since I did my seats but can't remember if I used wire in the sides but defiantly used wire at the bottom of the seat back.

My workbench sure looks a mess!!!

[wayne1230cars]

Looks good. Appears that that seat still had a lot of the prongs still there in good condition. That’s a plus. One restoration video warned against bending them at all as there is a good chance they will break. Then you get into having to make new ones, or sheet metal screws and washers or rivets.

I noticed yesterday that my seats still had the factory tag paper in them. Looks pretty fragile though.
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1960 beetle
1970 beetle convertible

[meranda]

My rear seat base has the assemblers tag. Made one day before my 12th birthday.

[wayne1230cars]

Neat. Unfortunately my tag had no date., just the number 11 stamped on it.
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1960 beetle
1970 beetle convertible