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I don't know whose armrest pads Legendary is selling...maybe THEY make their own or just resell someone else's.

One problem I've seen with a lot of the repro pads (beyond the cheap looking urethane versions) is the pad is way too tall compared to the originals. There may be other problems but that is one definite difference I have noticed on some.
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looking at the undersides of my original arm pads, they look like the factory just wrapped and glued the same material as the seats on the armrest. I may give it a shot re-doing my originals
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I've got the same issue in blue You mentioned a fix in the build video. What's the plan, dye ?
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Has anyone figured out what type of material the covers were made of and how they were originally formed? If you've taken one apart, the cover material isn't regular expandable vinyl. It's thin and dense and has little elasticity. To me it looks like a laminate made with some type of durable paper base covered with a grained tight cell vinyl. Similar to the material that originally covered door panels. The stuff has little give and tears if you try enough. I've looked and no one comes close to the making this type material anymore.

I've tried recovering arm rests with regular vinyl on a '70 Camaro; however, they just don't look right. From a combination of glue and stretching the vinyl, they looked to puffy in some areas while the transitions in the bends and tucks came out uneven and not smooth.

Has anyone tried with success vacuum forming with heat on a solid buck shaped like the foam part of the arm rest?
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