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Old Jun 2, 2010 | 05:12 PM
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Has anyone looked into having the seats re-covered with Ferrari or Bentley quality leather? If so, how'd it turn out?
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one word: "caravaggio".

JETZ should be by later to post pics.
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[QUOTE=jdmvette;1574263422]one word: "caravaggio".


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there are a couple companys out there that provide an excellent quality leather interior. This is on my list of mods to do!
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Good luck with your mods
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Originally Posted by IMXCITD
there are a couple companys out there that provide an excellent quality leather interior. This is on my list of mods to do!
Check out Vette Essentials (www.vetteessentials.com). They offer high quality leather interior components.
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Originally Posted by Vetteman Jack
Check out Vette Essentials (www.vetteessentials.com). They offer high quality leather interior components.
I was going to suggest Vette Essentials!
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Not recovered, but new, different seats, 'GT's' with a few other leather tweaks.








Go here to see his latest finished project, a new interior for a new ZR1.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-c...-creation.html

Caravaggio
http://70.86.152.70/~caravagg/pdfs/C5_Interior.pdf

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I have never felt the leather that Caravaggio uses, but you cant go wrong with VE, and APSIS uses very high quality leather as well....both feel very very nice.
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