Seats

Wicked Stick · Post by **Wicked Stick** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:42 am

A quick pick of my son Chris, testing out the new leather pilot seats.
He found them very comfy, but he was hoping I had installed the stick so he could have done some hangar/garage flying.

Here's a side shot of them both.

(I need to get better lighting to shoot black interiors, or wheel it outside next time)

Post by **Spike** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:26 pm

Nice David!!

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:10 pm

Dave, where did you gt the seats? Maybe you already told us and I missed it. They look really nice!

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:24 pm

Cool!

I can't wait to occupy one!

CJ

Wicked Stick · Post by **Wicked Stick** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:31 pm

I bought the Van's seat cushions, and then ordered the leather.
I cut out the patterns, then had a local upholstery shop do the sewing.

He only charged me $240.00 to do them.

4kilo · Post by **4kilo** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:13 pm

Dave,

Those seats look great!

Did the Van's cushions come with patterns, or did you do those yourself?

Pat

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:27 pm

Dave, now I remember you talking about buying some hides at one point. They really do look great. I may go that way myself instead of the high priced ready built stuff. Your's look wonderful.

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:03 am

I agree with everyone above! Those are SWEET!!

So you had them sewn for $240...what did the leather run??? Just trying to see what the real savings is...The seat patterns from Van's are $295 for the 8, so you're at $535 plus the cost of the leather.

I'm just curious...it may be the way to go!

Wicked Stick · Post by **Wicked Stick** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:48 am

I'll have to look up the leather cost. I know I had to buy it by the "Hide" so I ended up with some left over on the gray, but used all of the black.

I was going to go with Abbey, but the wait time was enormous.

Ok, Here's the price break:
Leather hides (1 black, 1 gray); $400 (includes shipping)
Labor for Local Upholster; $240 (includes tip)
Van's Foam Seat Kit with Pattern cut-outs; $295

So in total I paid $935 bucks.
(If I went with a single color seat, it would have been about $200 less.)

Leather seats at Classic Aero was about $100 more, but again a really long wait time