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Originally Posted by PAUL K

I don't know where he got the welting or what it is. I just turned it from black to blue. You are fortunate to have bought one of these new and still have it after all these years. A couple of friends bought them new for their cars back in the day. I wasn't willing to spend the money at the time. I enjoy buying all these vintage parts I couldnt afford back then..... Hopefully the guy I got the roll bar from sees this thread and chimes in.

You have a cool project going on! Thanks for the pictures.

Luckily, black is the color I'm going to, which gives me more options since I won't have to dye it. The vacuum hose thing I did looked pretty good, ends met up square with almost invisible parting line, and it's flexible enough to follow a tight circle. It's just difficult to cut lengthwise is the thing.

Yeah, I realize I'm lucky to have got one new! The chrome on it is a thick, show-chrome that I wish I could get bumpers done like! There's one minor scratch on it, not thru the chrome, and you would have to stare at it to see it, so lucky in that respect too.

I trimmed the mounting pads where it attaches to the rocker area, and was able to trim the carpet to hug the tube. I had some welting on the carpet there before, but used a crappy type that would pop off sometimes. This time I think I'm just going to have some carpet edge sewn on it, see how that looks/works.

Thanks for comment on project, as soon as I get it back from paint will start a thread. One cool thing I found along the way was a billet shaker scoop grill, did a test fit on the 70-76 scoop I have, and it fits great. They (Resto-a-Muscle Car) do make one for later years as well, but here it the link to the 70-76 one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/313250325679

Could probably go right to the Resto-a-Muscle Car's website and buy it too, not sure.

ID67goat - Nice, thanks for the link! I will drill down on options there. Never thought to look there for the trim, was going to start looking at upholstery shops or suppliers.


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