When I last wrote, I had found an auto re-upholsterer in Cumming, just north of where I live, and he knew on the phone just what I was talking about when I said the words "eighty-four Riviera."
So I started by taking in the back seats that I'd unhooked in early February, and they came back great. Next, I unbolted the front passenger seat (a 15-minute task), and took it in. When he called to say that was ready, I set to work taking out the driver's seat, a much more difficult task. Four of the bolts holding the seat to the floor came up pretty easy, but the other two were covered by the seat itself. Two Sunday afternoons later, I gave up trying to push the seat forward on its frozen power-seat track, and cut my way through the black plastic trim pieces to get to the bolts holding the seat to the track. Voila! That, too, has gone in and come back all shiny-and-new.
Here are pictures of the passenger seat as it came out...the camera wasn't handy when the driver's seat came loose.
And I haven't taken pictures of any seats in their reincarnated state yet, but they match well, and they're in the garage waiting for me to shampoo the floor carpeting and install the seats.
Next step? Well, now that the spring rains have slowed down, I need to get it into the shop for some engine and suspension work.
Oh, and there's another Riv for sale in Atlanta with the identical color scheme...asking price? $6,500. See this ad for the 1982 comparison.
