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1966-67 B-Body bucket seat metal panels for the backs of the front bucket seats and one pair of the lower metal side covers. You'll still need to find another pair of the lower side covers to do both front buckets seats, but this will be an excellent start. They are blue in color and look to be in very nice condition.

Richard

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1966-67-Dodge-Ch...9021722%26

Item location: Menlo Park, California, United States Ships to: United States

Richard


Since we are on the subject, I have a set of Red seats that I want to turn to black, is it a matter of either dying the red seat backs or find a set or black, or is someone repopping them nowadays?

Piper my black seat backs and headrests were beat so I found a nice set but they were white in a Charger. No carpet down low like those pics above have and not sure the difference.
I took all the chrome off and spayed them with vinyl paint by Dupli-color, it looks great.
Just give it plenty of time to cure before you put it together.

I did the same thing as Andy on my seats. I just painted the vinyl with black vinyl paint and it came out pretty good.

Legendary makes the stick on vinyl for the seat backs and sides if yours are beat up.

Piper Wrote:Richard


Since we are on the subject, I have a set of Red seats that I want to turn to black, is it a matter of either dying the red seat backs or find a set or black, or is someone repopping them nowadays?

Hello Kevin,

Nobody that I'm aware of is reproducing these vinyl covered stamped steel metal trim cover panels for the 66-67 bucket seats and most likely never will due to the expensive tooling it would take to do so. That basically leaves you with the following three options.

Option #1: Find a used complete six piece set in the color you want.

Option #2: Try to "paint" your existing panels to the color you want.

Option #3: Do like I did and send your trim panel covers to a company like Just Dashes and have them professionally restore and color matched to the color you want.

Problems with the above three options

Option #1: Finding these trim covers in any condition is difficult, but finding them in the color that you want and in excellent condition is even more difficult.

Option #2: The textured vinyl material that these metal trim covers are covered with is difficult to work with and next to impossible to fix if the surfaces are scarred like most are. These panels were also not "painted" by the factory, so unless you're experienced at prepping and painting textured vinyl surfaces like these, achieving a clean factory lookwill be challenging.

Option #3: Sending my six original factory black trim covers to Just Dashes to have them restored and color changed to Pearl White was NOT an inexpensive transaction! I did this several years ago, so I don't remember how much I paid them to do the work, but if I'm remembering correctly, it was over a thousand dollars to have all six parts done. On the positive side, my trim cover panels now look factory fresh and they are not painted. Just Dashes stripped off the factory black covering material and then carefully cleaned all of the metal panels to remove all of the dirt, surface rust and other residue before they re-skinned them in the factory correct textured Pearl White vinyl material. They also removed all of the chrome trim before doing this work and polished all of the trim before reinstalling it. This won't be the first choice for everyone, but after my seats are restored, I want my seats to look factory correct and feel like they did when they were brand new back in 1966, so I'm not cutting any corners.

As always, just my personal opinions based on my own experiences with these parts.

Richard

This may refer to just the carpet, but I remember the Legendary rep at Carlisle saying it was the vinyl backing material also.


Front Bucket Seatback Panels
(Pre-sewn vinyl and carpet lower seatback
panel kit)................SK66CWX0018©
(All colors)...........$72/pr.
+Please refer to carpet color selection at tim

67440Dodge Wrote:This may refer to just the carpet, but I remember the Legendary rep at Carlisle saying it was the vinyl backing material also.


Front Bucket Seatback Panels
(Pre-sewn vinyl and carpet lower seatback
panel kit)................SK66CWX0018©
(All colors)...........$72/pr.
+Please refer to carpet color selection at tim

Hello Mike,

Not to disagree with what you're saying my friend, but the part that you've show above from Legendary Auto Interiors is just the vinyl and carpet insert that fits into the lower section on the bucket seat vinyl covered metal trim panels. I have a set of these inserts waiting to go onto my seats when they get restored.

As far as the vinyl material used on the rest of the two seat back panels and the four lower side panel covers for both of the front bucket seats, I've been told that they had the textured vinyl covering material heat sealed onto the stamped steel metal panels and I assume that whoever produced these panels for Chrysler had some type of tooling to give the still warm material it's textured look after it was applied, as the stamped steel panels are smooth on both sides when the vinyl is removed. With this in mind, it would be fairly difficult, if not impossible to accomplish that process at home.

As I mentioned, Just Dashes does do the factory style "skinning" process and that's why it's not inexpensive to have done, because there is a bit of work involved. I'm extremely pleased with the work that Just Dashed did for me though, as my six trim covers look factory fresh and it would have been a real p.i.t.a. to try and "paint" my factory black panels Pearl White. :p

Richard

Here's a picture showing the front and back side of a spare red seat back trim panel I have.

Makes sense to me Richard... thanks for the clarification..

Aught, I need metallic red seats. Did you paint them?

As mentioned in my posts above, these seats are rather unique in that the seat backs and lower side covers are stamped steel parts covered in a textured vinyl covering which makes them a bit difficult to refinish at home, so you basically have three choices for restoring the 1966-67 bucket seats.

(01) Send your seat backs and lower side covers to a company such as Just Dashes like I did and have those parts re-skinned in the correct factory color you need. This is not an inexpensive project as it's a labour intensive process, but in the end, it's the only really good way to get the best results.

(02) Try to find an automotive paint supplier in your area that can provide you with a superior vinyl cleaner and a vinyl paint product line to respray these parts in as close to a matching factory color as possible and hope that the paint stays in place. You can't do any sanding on these parts to take them down to bare metal as you will lose all of the factory texture, so cleaning a rough textured surface like these parts have isn't easy and if the surface isn't completely clean, the vinyl style paint simply won't stick.

(03) Try to find a good used set of these seat backs and inner and outer lower side panel covers in the color you need. Trust me, that won't be easy or inexpensive.

And before you ask, no, nobody is, or ever has reproducing these parts.

Richard