[Chrysler300] Re: Legendary Seat Covers (or not)

[RAKFAR@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 5/4/2008 6:54:09 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, Rob  Kern 
writes:

Hello  300'ly to all!
Just compiling a bunch of vignettes (albeit expensive ones)  to augment 
Charlie's NewsFlite articles. All personally experienced. The saga  in progress is 
my Christmas treat to Mopsy of new Legendary front and rear  seat covers. This 
and new bumpers (another story...stay tuned) are the last  items on my list 
of fine tuning to get my C where I want her (perfection  effort that I'm 
seriously wondering if at all worth the hastle...so read on).  December 4, 2007 the 
decision is made to purchase new seat covers when I  receive the Legendary 
Interiors holiday discount special...10% off and free  shipping! (how prophetic). 
I call and put the order in while looking at their  website. What a 
compliment..Just compiling a bunch of vignettes (albeit expensive ones)  to augment 
Charlie's NewsFlite articles. All personally experienced. The saga  in progress 
is my Christmas treat to Mopsy of new Legendary front and rear  seat covers. 
This and new bumpers (another story...stay tuned) are the last  items on my list 
of fine tuning to get my C where I want her (perfection  effort that I'm 
seriously wondering if at all worth the hastle...so read on).  December 4, 2007 
the decision is made to purchase new seat covers when I  receive the Legendary 
Interiors holiday discount special...10% off and free  shipping! (how 
prophetic). I call and put the order in while looking at their  website. What a 
compliment..<WBR>..their rear seat photo demonstrating THEIR  rear covers for the C 
hardtop is my existing ones made by Goers! OK, lets get  the covers and move 
forward. Right..... with several backsteps and back flips  and bellyflops in 
between. Of course plunking down the $2212 was acceptable  since I saved the 
shipping and about $300 to boot (majic number that 300).  "You'll have them in 8 
weeks" they said, enjoy the holidays dreaming about  your new seat covers. Dewy 
eyed mysticism set in thinking that this no-brainer  new upgrade will be so 
beautiful and hassle-free since it only involves  removing my seats and taking 
them 2 miles down the road to the upholstery shop  and presto...the only 
concern will be how soon I can get them back in thJust compiling a bunch of 
vignettes (albeit expensive ones)  to augment Charlie's NewsFlite articles. All 
personally experienced. The saga  in progress is my Christmas treat to Mopsy of new 
Legendary front and rear  seat covers. This and new bumpers (another 
story...stay tuned) are the last  items on my list of fine tuning to get my C where I 
want her (perfection  effort that I'm seriously wondering if at all worth the 
hastle...so read on).  December 4, 2007 the decision is made to purchase new 
seat covers when I  receive the Legendary Interiors holiday discount 
special...10% off and free  shipping! (how prophetic). I call and put the order in while 
looking at their  website. What a compliment..<WBR>..their rear seat photo 
demonstrating THEIR  rear covers for the C hardtop is my existing ones made by 
Goers! OK, lets get  the covers and move forward. Right..... with several 
backsteps and back flips  and bellyflops in between. Of course plunking down the 
$2212 was acceptable  since I saved the shipping and about $300 to boot (majic 
number that 300).  "You'll have them in 8 weeks" they said, enjoy the holidays 
dreaming about  your new seat covers. Dewy eyed mysticism set in thinking that 
this no-brainer  new upgrade will be so beautiful and hassle-free since it 
only involves  removing my seats and taking them 2 miles dJust compiling a bunch 
of vignettes (albeit expensive ones)  to augment Charlie's NewsFlite 
articles. All personally experienced. The saga  in progress is my Christmas treat to 
Mopsy of new Legendary front and rear  seat covers. This and new bumpers 
(another story...stay tuned) are the last  items on my list of fine tuning to get my 
C where I want her (perfection  effort that I'm seriously wondering if at all 
worth the hastle...so read on).  December 4, 2007 the decision is made to 
purchase new seat covers when I  receive the Legendary Interiors holiday discount 
special...10% off and free  shipping! (how prophetic). I call and put the 
order in while looking at their  website. What a compliment..<WBR>..their rear 
seat photo demonstrating THEIR  rear covers for the C hardtop is my existing 
ones made by Goers! OK, lets get  the covers and move forward. Right..... with 
several backsteps and back flips  and bellyflops in between. Of course plunking 
down the $2212 was acceptable  since I saved the shipping and about $300 to 
boot (majic number that 300).  "You'll have them in 8 weeks" they said, enjoy 
the holidays dreaming about  your new seat covers. Dewy eyed mysticism set in 
thinking that this no-brainer  neJust compiling a bunch of vignettes (albeit 
expensive ones)  to augment Charlie's NewsFlite articles. All personally 
experienced. The saga  in progress is my Christmas treat to Mopsy of new Legendary 
front and rear  seat covers. This and new bumpers (another story...stay tuned) 
are the last  items on my list of fine tuning to get my C where I want her 
(perfection  effort that I'm seriously wondering if at all worth the hastle...so 
read on).  December 4, 2007 the decision is made to purchase new seat covers 
when I  receive the Legendary Interiors holiday discount special...10% off and 
free  shipping! (how prophetic). I call and put the order in while looking at 
their  website. What a compliment..<WBR>..their rear seat photo demonstrating 
THEIR  rear covers for the C hardtop is my existing ones made by Goers! OK, lets 
get  the covers and move forward. Right..... with several backsteps and back 
flips  and bellyflops in between. Of course plunking down the $2212 was 
acceptable  since I saved the shipping and about $300 to boot (majic number that 
300).  "You'll have them in 8 weeks" they said, enjoy the holidays dreaming about 
 your new seat covers. Dewy eyed mysticism set in thinking that this 
no-brainer  new upgrade will be so beautiful and hassle-free since it only involves  
removing my seats and taking them 2 miles down the road to the upholstery shop  
and presto...the only concern will be how soon I can get them back in the car 
 for spring car shows! I was under the impression that in early February I  
would have the seat covers so advertised my old ones on a Saturday afternoon  
in January at which time they sold in 10 minutes to the first buyer (e-mail  
response wasn't quick enough so he called me via probably iridion satellite  
phone before I received his e-mail. SOLD!! Three other club members were in  line 
to purchase. This gave me that "loving feeling" that all was right and  this 
was my final reward for the trials and tribulations with Mopsy the past 5  
yeras. Yeah, and if a pig could fly! Mid-Febru ary the phone calls to  Legendary 
start on my part. "Just a slight delay in that the material is  
back-ordered"<WBR>. Wait a minute.....you mean that you dudes don't even have  the material 
yet? It's been 10.5 weeks. Of course the Discover Card bill was  already paid, 
so that was some consolation. End of February I call them, after  I've been 
repeatedly told that they will call me when they are completed for  shipment. 
Thetying a knot at the end of my rope). All possible  scenarios of what to do 
next go through my mind. All my seats are apart and  the covers are in Newark, 
New York. Mopsy is dead-in-the-tying a knot at the end of my rope). All 
possible  scenarios of what to do next go through my mind. All my seats are apart 
and  the covers are in Newark, New York. Mopsy is dead-in-the-<WBR>water in the  
storage garage with a step stool for a front seat. It never seems to fail,  
that I get in a project with this car that doesn't get hamstrung because of  
ghosts of hobbyist past, or current inadequacies to but it politely. Another  
lost night's sleep and at 3:00 am (another 300 epiphany?) it dawns on me to  
just ship the seat frames to Legendary and let them custom fit OJ's gloves  with 
the correct padding and burlap, cotton, whatever. While they are at it  why 
not bead blast the frames and paint them the correct black. The money  meter 
starts turning again. I call Legendary the first thing in the morning  and they 
think it is the only way to go and so does my upholsterer. Well Jerry  goes and 
gets the frames, padding ,etc. from the upholsterer and boxes up the  seats. 
Try shipping seat frames! Price quotes go from $1300 to $1600 for  Yellow 
freight or UPS freight and of course the nearest freight depot is in  Texas! I 
call Legendary and their shipping guy says no problem, "I just  shipped a crate 
weighing about a ton of seat material to Key West for under  $600. Just give me 
the weight of each box and the dimensions and I'll issue a  pick up tag for 
the body shop to have them picked up tomorrow". Great! Things  are looking like 
the plan is coming together. The one way shipping comes to  $340, a bargain 
and I don't have to load up the truck and go to Texas! Four  pick up numbers 
are issued through Legendary via FedEx to be picked up the  Friday after Easter. 
FedEx comes by and states they only have one label, pick  up one box and they 
are gone! I get a call from the body shop that 3 boxes of  seat frames 
remain. "What to do?" Legendary gets a speed dial from me just  before they close 
and they throw a fit that the FedEx guy didn't read the tag  for the four box 
numbers. Thanks guys, I'm paying for all this grief and get  caught in the 
middle. FedEx tells the body shop TTFN until the following  Tuesday! Legendary 
pulls strings and the FedEx dudes show up on Monday to get  the boxes. 
Miraculously all 4 show up at the same time to Legendary. Meanwhile  Legendary sends me 
back my original covers, which I put in a Legendary box  (poetic justice) and 
ship to their new owner along with a bicycle box full of  padding, burlap, 
kitchen towels, cardboard and whatever else were stuffed in  those seats, because 
we all know that a man's hand can't fit in OJ's glove so  arriva d'arce! 
Trying to ship these were not easy but this story is getting a  liittle long. Just 
say for $271 the pads, etc. and seat covers arrived safely  to their new 
owner. So now I've got all my seats in the hands of Legendary. A  phone call to 
Wayne Graefen confirmed that this was the RIGHT thing to do and  I can sleep on 
it. Appare ntly it has been known that Goers seat covers were  prone to 
dimensional deviations. Isn't that a fact. Well, Wayne's word is the  Good House 
Keeping Seal of Approval in my book and back to sweet dreams of  driving Mopsy 
with seats again and not propped on a foot stool hanging on to  the wheel for 
dear life. Well, Legendary has the seats for now 3 weeks and I'm  told that they 
are having to redo them since dimensionally the were way off  and that they 
have put 26 hours of work into the pads,etc. but are only  charging me half that 
time since they are having to make new templates for C  seats!! Imagine 
thattying a knot at the end of my rope). All possible  scenarios of what to do next 
go through my mind. All my seats are apart and  the covers are in Newark, New 
York. Mopsy is dead-in-the-<WBR>water in the  storage garage with a step 
stool for a front seat. It never seems to fail,  that I get in a project with this 
car that doesn't get hamstrung because of  ghosts of hobbyist past, or 
current inadequacies to but it politely. Another  lost night's sleep and at 3:00 am 
(another 




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300F'ly,
 
Roger Karlson



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