So back in 1991 I bought a 1978 (I think, it was many many eons ago) station wagon. It was subaru orange, fwd, and had crazy plaid cloth seats.

 

After an engine swap (just a 1.6 for an actually running 1.6) I drove it for about almost a year. Then the cloth in the drivers seat started to tear. So I started yanking on the drivers seat cloth. What do I see? Brand Freaking NEW BLACK VINYL!!!!!! I proceed to yank all the cloth off all the seats I had BRAND NEW SEATS!!!!!!!!!

 

It was awesome.

 

The only damaged seats were the drivers since it did have 180ish K in miles.

 

But the rest of the seats were brand freaking new. It was amazing how nice every seat was. The plaid seating took a serious beating and kept all the damage away from the seats.

 

Oh yeah, it also protected the doors! My interior basically looked 95% new.

 

But then since it had no engine my wife had it towed and crushed.

But then since it had no engine my wife had it towed and crushed.

 

Please tell me your jokin

Are you still married to this woman? I hope that some counseling has been arranged if so .

What a shame! I had a '79 that I modified to fit an EA81 w/4spd hi-lo 4x4 and it wasn't to hard to do. Sold it to a friend for his daughter. My parents were original owners and I sold it at 370,000 mi. It is now over 400,000 mi and still going strong. Awesome riggs those old soobies! I now have an '82 Brat.

My '79 4wd wagon had the plaid interior just like you describe. I realized it had the vinal underneath it when I was pulling them in favor of "new" vinal seats. I proceeded to tear apart the plaid until it was all off. Didn't look too bad but it had mold/mildew growing in the foam so I decided it would be best to burn the seats and take the leftover scrap metal to the scrapyard. But I still got nice vinal seats from a '78 wagon with 73,000 miles:eek:

WAIT! are you all saying that my brat may have nice vinyl seats under my ugly plaid seats!?! i don't think so... there is a big tear in one and all i see if foam... luckily i have my RACING seat covers...