Do your seats look like this?

[k2-k5]

Torn up, worn out, duct taped together. I even have shop rags to act as stuffing so I am not sitting on the metal coils.

Here are the options I'm considering:

Replace with aftermarket seats.
Expensive, hard to mount. Look cool

Recover with black Houndstooth?
I'm Leaning this way. I like the original look I wanted seats with headrests but I guess that only matters if I get in a wreck

Seats from a sports car?
Mounting could be tricky without fabwork. (seats wouldn't sit flat on the floor) The Power and heated seats would be a sweet. Probably hard to hook up and passenger seat wouldn't flip up

Leave as is.
Use more duct tape. and throw a Schucks seat cover over it. Nasty.

I would enjoy seeing your photos even the duct taped ones.

 

[CDA 455]

Torn up, worn out, duct taped together. I even have shop rags to act as stuffing so I am not sitting on the metal coils.

Here are the options I'm considering:

Replace with aftermarket seats.
Expensive, hard to mount. Look cool

Recover with black Houndstooth?
I'm Leaning this way. I like the original look I wanted seats with headrests but I guess that only matters if I get in a wreck

Seats from a sports car?
Mounting could be tricky without fabwork. (seats wouldn't sit flat on the floor) The Power and heated seats would be a sweet. Probably hard to hook up and passenger seat wouldn't flip up

Leave as is.
Use more duct tape. and throw a Schucks seat cover over it. Nasty.

I would enjoy seeing your photos even the duct taped ones.

How about getting someone to sew up a set of denim seat covers?

 

[chevy wrangler]

i just duct taped mine used old news paper and a towel to soften it up then wraped a seat cover over them

 

[gaspass]

One of my winter projects is to order new covers and recover them myself.

 

[Greg72]

I'd go with the houndstooth cover idea.....

You can buy new replacement foams so that the final product looks and feels nice.

Also, they make aftermarket seat heaters that can be installed under the seatcovers....not too expensive IIRC, maybe around $200/pr???

The other thing you could do for headrests, is to incorporate them into a removeable crossbar that attaches to your rollcage B-pillar. This is what I was considering doing to add some highway safety, but not compromise the "look" of a classic lowback seat most of the time.

Aftermarket suspension seats are cool, especially if you can build a custom mount to them that allows you to use the existing mounting holes in the floor from the stock seats....that way, you could have a better quality seat for offroading and a stock set for around town.

 

[k2-k5]

I'd go with the houndstooth cover idea.....

You can buy new replacement foams so that the final product looks and feels nice.

Also, they make aftermarket seat heaters that can be installed under the seatcovers....not too expensive IIRC, maybe around $200/pr???

The other thing you could do for headrests, is to incorporate them into a removeable crossbar that attaches to your rollcage B-pillar. This is what I was considering doing to add some highway safety, but not compromise the "look" of a classic lowback seat most of the time.

Aftermarket suspension seats are cool, especially if you can build a custom mount to them that allows you to use the existing mounting holes in the floor from the stock seats....that way, you could have a better quality seat for offroading and a stock set for around town.

Anyone know who sells the replacement foams? I don't recall seeing that in LMC or the other restoration catalogs.

 

[speedypalomino]

I just went through the seat thing myself... my poor old Blazer sat behind the barn for a number of years while I was gone serving in the Marine Corps, someone stripped the seats out... I found a guy in South Carolina who sells some pretty nice restored seats for around 800 bucks,, I'm pretty happy with the seats,, the tracks,,, not so happy... I had to do some fab work as the mounting holes on the floor were about 3 inches too short.. ( I'm thinking he sent bench seat tracks,, I can't be sure,, but I fab'd up some brackets and now they fit... he is selling a set of black buckets on ebay right now if you are interested... or I can send you the info.. Bear Pacific Palominos Lynden,Wa

 

[bp71k5]

Both LMC and Brothers sell foams and covers. I got mine through brothers. Just get a decent set of hog ring pliers. The ones that come with the kit suck.

 

[MNorby]

here is what mine looked like when I got it:

And my cavalier seats in it currently:

And I have one and need to order another Carbeau Baja seat that will go in when I finish that part of cage