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Old May 26, 2012 | 05:06 PM
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any experiences with best vendors,quality, prices for black leather seat covers and foam kits for a 1970 vette
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Old May 26, 2012 | 06:24 PM
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Forum sponsor Willcox always gets high marks - - and I'm sure any of the forum sponsors would be a good selection. Also good marks for Al Knoch interiors.

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Al Knoch is probably the best, and most exensive. I bought mine from Corvette America but any of the vendors on this forum will be good.
When you go to install them, here is a step by step video from corvette america. I did this job a couple months ago and the seats turned out great.

http://www.corvetteamerica.com/video/70_75scInstall/
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I did my interior with Knoch seat covers ,foam and carpet. Quality is great, but my experience with customer service sucked. I won't go into detail on the forum, but I would never deal with them again. Use Willcox they have Knoch products and their customer service is second to none!
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Below is a set of covers we installed in our shop.
This set is Corvette America brand and the fitment was perfect.
We also carry sell and install Al Knoch's covers as well.

The difference to me is the foam... The CA Foam is dead nuts on!

Here is the link on our site to the Leather covers. And we get this question all the time.. All 70 original covers were leather center with vinyl side skirts. You'll see 100 percent leather at this link and it is available to those that want it.

Leather Seat Covers: http://willcoxcorvette.com/advanced_...ywords=leather

Seat Foam: http://willcoxcorvette.com/advanced_...&keywords=foam

If you do decide to purchase.. don't forget to enter the Sale Code from our sale thread.. you'll save an additional 10 percent off the posted prices above.



And just a side note: All the Dash pads are the current production new repro's.. Look at that fit! I was just awesome putting this car back together with good fitting pads compared to the older ones.



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I made a trip to CA and seen how they made their seat covers.
Purchase the covers, foam and door panels , they show me first
hand what to do and how to do it . The only thing that bother me
was cutting the hole out for the seat belts .
I not going to say anything bad about Al Knoch's , I had asked a
couple questions and I thought the person got a little nasty over
the phone .

I like the attitude that I had received at Wllicox , I didn't know at the
time he sold CA (Corvette America)

The people at CA wouldn't say anything bad about Knoch's, but
Knoch's sure said much about CA. That does not go down very well
with me .
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Corvette America products are #1, in quality and price. I installed leather seat covers and foam on my 73.



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Al Knoch. And the customer service they showed me recently was far and away the best of any vendor I've dealt with.
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All the Dash pads are the current production new repro's.. Look at that fit! I was just awesome putting this car back together with good fitting pads compared to the older ones.
What do you mean by this? Are there NEW molds that the dash covers are being made from? And if so, when they this conversion take place? I bought a dash pad a couple yrs ago for my 81 that I haven't put in yet. Wonder if I got the old one or new version...
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The 68-77 lower pads were re-worked about 1.5 yrs ago. You'll be fine with the 78-82 pad.
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Al Knoch...the best...service, quality, delivery, and price were extremely all very good!! I'm in Ontario, Canada and was very satisfied.
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Originally Posted by Domer
Al Knoch...the best...service, quality, delivery, and price were extremely all very good!! I'm in Ontario, Canada and was very satisfied.
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true, Al makes the best leathers bar none
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