| hi Noel , my friend , copied , Carl has done a terrific job over the years for me . He once ran his own custom interior shop ( common out west , zero off them in New England ), with a focus on hot rods , custom cars etc . He knows many suppliers in the trade , he has found things I would never expect are out there . i am copying only to see if he can or may help on this . We had talked of him doing 300 seats , the part of the job after you have the patterned center leather . He made 3 sets of 300 F seats for me from scratch , custom , not the original weave patterns , black — all leather . i brought him old wreck seats and away he went . Custom contrasting stitching , just beautiful . he recently did similar work on a 37 packard I am in the middle of He is semi retired , likes to do one job at a time . work is spectacular . i know the club had leather , may be common ground here . Help Quirey with foam , who knows . just input . I do think that at least once i got foam fur Carl from Gary or Quirey years back , we had some discussion then about adapting available pre made GM foam , possibly Camaro . John ps Carl if you have any input , feel free to speak up ! Sent from my iPhone On Feb 2, 2023, at 11:28 PM, Noel Hastalis <cpaviper@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I had spoken with Legendary about seat foam for my F back in mid-2018. As you note here, they responded that they only had the front seat foam and had no plans to fabricate the rear seat foam.
Then I reached out to Dave Mihalko and Todd at Quirey, asking them. They had just acquired Gary Goers' inventory and were ramping up to produce the seat foam along with other parts. Quirey started with Gary Goers' patterns and used my F as the 'mule' to produce the foam more efficiently than Gary's gluing 22 small foam pieces per seat. Quirey shipped my newly complete seat foam in March '19 and my local interior shop worked with it. Added a bit of foam to the bolsters and the center horizontal pleats, and the seats turned out great. Dan Reitz also received a seat foam set from Quirey after I did. Not sure how many other sets they produced.
Several months ago, and at our Greenville SC Meet, Dave Mihalko communicated that foam was not then available, as bulk foam manufacturers due to certain chemicals not being available due to well-publicized screwed-up supply-chain issues. He also mentioned that, what foam he was able to source was outrageously expensive, and didn't pursue it. I also spoke with a Club member earlier this week who's in the later stages of restoring his F convertible. He's spoken with Todd at Quirey a handful of times and, last he heard, they do not have the seat foam available.
I imagine if you're working with an experienced interior shop that has foam available, it can fabricate the seat forms you need.
Noel Hastalis
F Coupe
On 02/02/2023 9:20 PM Peter Scherer <caprockconnections@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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