E&G Classics’ Replacement Leather Kit Is the Ticket to High-Quality Leather Replacement
When it comes to the interior of Fox Mustangs the designers didn't place much effort on them in the beginning. Basically a Fairmont interior with some different badging and some sportier seats (in the GT), it wasn't until 1987 and the redesign of the Mustang into an "aero warrior" that the Ford design team used a clean sheet of paper for the interior. The interior in 1987 was fresh and very modern, but again, Ford left it to sit unchanged, except for the addition of an air bag in the 1990-and-newer models, until the redesign of the Mustang into the FOX4 or SN95 Mustang in 1994.
If you regularly look at the many Mustangs along the rows of late-models at a Mustang show, you probably have noticed that many of these owners have now embraced the fact that the interior, like the rest of the car, is uncharted waters and can be modified to one's liking. Some modifications are minimal, such as an aftermarket gauge set up and a shifter. Still others breathe the credo of the street rodder and leave no interior part untouched. Deciding what you want, and what you can afford, will greatly help reduce the confusion in what you want to accomplish with your Mustang's interior. Let's face it, a good set of aftermarket seats can run $1,500 with matching material, so if you have a smaller budget in mind, say, under a $1,000 for the whole interior, you need to look at other alternatives.
The GT you see here is owned by an older, mature gentleman, and he wasn't about to strap himself into a fixed race bucket seat with a five-way harness to go to work every day. As a matter of fact, the stock seats were just fine for him (go figure?). All he wanted was to replace the white interior with a gray leather, while changing a few aspects for a custom look. We turned to E&G Classics of Columbia, Maryland, for assistance.
E&G are the makers of leather interior kits for new cars (1994-1997 models) but they were interested in helping us, since they carry templates back to the late 1980’s for some vehicles. As you will see in the accompanying photos, removing your own seat covers is not hard at all, and when all was said and done, we had a completely modified interior, under our budget, doing most of the work ourselves.