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1976 280Z Restoration Project


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Yes, it looks good. You're being really productive!!

The military gives us a large block of time off at Christmas which is really helpful. My wife has to work right up till Christmas Day so I am left to my own devices in the shop all day for a few weeks each December.
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Those are the best days, you get to use the loud tools and toxic chemicals, the car is looking great Mark, you're in the home stretch.

I am spoiled that way, as my shop is separate from the house so I can do the noisy stuff whenever I want.
I know the exterior is coming together but I am still needing a lot of stuff for the interior. Carpet and vinyl come to mind.
Anyone have a source for vinyl rolls to cut new pieces? No one sells kits for reasonable prices for the 280’s.
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Re: vinyl sources. Try the local upholstery shop. My local shop was very helpful and could get anything. Of course it helped that I farmed out the seats to them...
Love this thread, Mark
Cheers, Mike


My local upholstery shop wanted $1200 per seat to restore them... out of my league. None of the locals have stock of the old style materials and want multiple appendages for their product.
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I bought seats from a 77 280Z ($150 USD) for my series 1 so I could have the full forward and recline tilt. Got new foam from MSA ($150 USD) and leather covers for the seats, EBrake and shifter boot ($400 USD) from Interior Innovations so they all match with the red stitching. A friend helped with the seat upholstery and I did the mod for my series 1 seat rails to go on the seats. Here's my seat thread;

Not sure what it would cost for this in Canada, but if you're going to use your original seat frames I would guess it would be no where near your quoted $2,400 for 2 seats.

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$2400 was for custom foams and covers. All of your prices are great in the states but seat foams alone come to $500 Cdn delivered. Exchange and shipping is a deal killer for most of us. I have seat covers and three sets of seats now. One of the sets has new foams so I will rebuild one set with those foams and my new covers.
I am looking for a good supplier of rolls of vinyl for the other section pieces now.

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