Scheel 501 renewal

[NickVyse]

Those look superb Mike.

 

First quote to get my seats recovered - 6m of cloth at £600 plus delivery to France from the UK and €3-,3500 in labour and foam and vinyl. Potentially €4100 - ouch.

 

Second quote 4m of cloth (which he says will leave plenty for future repairs), so £400, plus €1500 labour and €890 for new foam made to measure. So around €2800 all in. These all include 20 percent tax.

 

Waiting on a third local price before considering the hassle of a trimmer in Poland.

 

What are people paying around the world?

 

Nick

 

 

[uai]

1 Seat without much foam repair needed 800€ + Material

[mike472]

5 hours ago, NickVyse said:

Those look superb Mike.

 

First quote to get my seats recovered - 6m of cloth at £600 plus delivery to France from the UK and €3-,3500 in labour and foam and vinyl. Potentially €4100 - ouch.

 

Second quote 4m of cloth (which he says will leave plenty for future repairs), so £400, plus €1500 labour and €890 for new foam made to measure. So around €2800 all in. These all include 20 percent tax.

 

Waiting on a third local price before considering the hassle of a trimmer in Poland.

 

What are people paying around the world?

 

Nick

 

 

Nick,

 

The front seats are LeMans T80 model from Classic Touring Seats which cost about $1700 apiece. Then I had them both modified for $500. Much better looking with the perforated vinyl center sections and bump outs in the thigh and shoulder foam. The rear seats were a completely shot and they cost a total of $1800 to rebuild including materials. The interior of this car was Gobi(tan) and I restored and painted the door panels black and used original type BMW black plain and perforated material for rear seats and center sections of the seats. The original color of the car was Sahara and I changed it to Inca. It had already been changed to Inca when I got it about 12 years ago but shoddily done.  I had him redo the dashboard for $700. That involved patching a couple of holes I made to run wires for gauge and a cracked spot. He matched the texture in his patches and then resprayed it black. Came out great. I inquired at JustDashes out in CA as to how much they wanted to rebuild a dash. They quoted $2800 but they completely remake your dash stripping the entire skin off your dash and then vacuforming a whole new dash over your old foam core. Nice but expensive and most times not necessary. I saw them on a Jay Leno episode and was quite impressed with the level of quality they offer but it comes at a price. 

[markmac]

Quality work is always expensive - pretty much always.  Upholstery is like Paint, its either really good (noticeably so) or not so much - even to an untrained eye.

[mccusername]

$1500 a few years ago to restore a single Scheel 300 bucket, including preserving and repairing the original vinyl, and replacing the corduroy with repro fabric from the UK/Gerrit. The guy was supposedly "the" guy on the East Coast for early Porsche seats.