This book helps you learn the skills needed with instruction from a professional upholsterer, saving you thousands of dollars over outsourcing the restoration. Every photo provides a hands-on approach that shows you how to repair and restore a car’s interior to concours, show-quality specifications. After disassembling and gutting your car, it is easy to feel that you're in over your head when it comes to the upholstery.

The easy-to-follow, step-by-step presentation allows for a thorough understanding of all the processes. This is why so many do-it-yourself restorers outsource the work, at considerable expense, to an experienced upholstery shop. Taking the time to acquire the skills for upholstery restoration may feel like a daunting task, but what if an experienced upholsterer presented every skill you needed to restore upholstery yourself?Other restoration books may show you beautifully restored interiors, but they don't show you how to produce them.

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Automotive Upholstery Handbook

Build boat and motorcycle seats. Indispensable for anyone interested in upholstery. Restore, recover and build bench and bucket seats. Sew like an expert--on vinyl, leather or any fabric. Complete and detailed step-by-step instructions help you apply the right techniques to your own projects. Install convertible tops, vinyl roofs, sim-con and landau tops.

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Custom Auto Interiors

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How to Restore and Customize Automotive Interiors Motorbooks Workshop

Step by step details sshowing how to do custom work. Motorbooks International. Veteran author dennis parks takes you step-by-step through all the processes, from restoring seats, floor coverings, door panels, and headliners to adding sound dampening and thermal insulation. With tips and advice for selecting the right tools and planning your job, as well as maintaining your restored interior, How to Restore and Customize Automotive Interiors is the only book you’ll need to get the job done.

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Automotive Bodywork & Rust Repair

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Quite often, if the car is a daily driver for running errands, repairs are never made, and the car eventually ends up in junkyard heaven. Also included is a comprehensive resource guide. This book teaches you how to select the proper tools for the job, fitting and smoothing, welding options such as gas and electric, forming, cutting metal, common-sense approaches to the task ahead of you, final metal finishing including filling and sanding, the secrets of lead filling, preparing and cleaning sheet metal, section fabrications and repair patches, making panels fit properly, and more.

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Automotive Wiring and Electrical Systems Workbench Series

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Media Blasting & Metal Preparation: A Complete Guide

Covered are basic metal considerations, mechanical abrasive, such as type and size of metal; intended purpose of cleaning the metal; approaches to cleaning metal through chemical, and media abrasive systems; mastering the processes for consistent results; small- and large-scale projects; and post-cleaning prep procedures.

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Automotive Bodywork and Rust Repair. Detailed sections include: · painting interior parts · headliner replacement · carpet kits · door panels · dashboard Restoration · Seat Kit Installation · Kick Panels · Trunk Detailing · Steering Wheel Repairs and Swaps · Custom Seat Installation · Using Dyes · Simple Upholstery Repairs · Cleaning and Detailing Tips California Bill s Automotive Handbooks.

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How to Paint Your Car on a Budget Cartech

From simple scuff-and-squirt jobs to fullon, door-jambs-and-everything paint jobs, Ganahl covers everything you need to know to get a great looking coat of paint on your car and save lots of money in the process. Automotive Bodywork and Rust Repair. This book covers painting equipment, masking, the ins and outs of prep, painting and sanding products and techniques, and real-world advice on how to budget wisely when painting your own car.

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Professional Upholstering: All the Trade Secrets

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Automotive Custom Interiors Idea Book

Step by step details sshowing how to do custom work. Motorbooks International. The book covers every aspect of design-seat and upholstery, pedals, door panels and armrests, shifters, floor coverings and headliners, knobs and hardware, dashboards and gauges, steering wheels, consoles, audio and high-tech accessories, and cargo areas and trunks.

Inside, it's personal. The interior-perhaps more than any other aspect of a vehicle-lends itself to customization, a desire, to the expression of a character, a conviction. With images of an incredible assortment of custom interiors- from the ultimate in luxury to the totally high-tech, from suede to tuck 'n' roll, from race-inspired minimalism to retro hot rod styling, inlaid wood to engine-turned metal-Automotive Custom Interiors gives you the means to make your dream interior a reality.

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