Does anyone have pics of a 69 headrest without the covers?

I'm curious what I'm going to find under the headrest covers, for a couple of reasons.

1. I need to recover the ones I have. I don't see repro foams, so I assume that whatever condition mine are in under the cover is what I have to deal with. I'd just like to see the inside because if uncovering them destroys the foam, I may live with the little split I have.

2. I want to see what the structure is underneath. I'm still working on fitting 3 point retractable seat belts to my vert, and I may have it solved if I can mount a loop to the outside headrests, like later model cars.

Eric I dont know about the original 69s , I bought repo 69s for my 67 they looked very good. I had to change them to lt. blue and bought covers from pui. It did turn out good.

My originals are as hard as bricks so I guess that is not too much help. I would have to assume the support bracket is covered in foam. PUI does make replacement covers. If yours are split, I would take off the old covers, repair the faulty foam and apply the PUI's. I have seen this done with "sealer in a can", the stuff you use to seal cracks around the house. Spray it on, it will expand as it hardens and then just cut the excess down to match the headrest profile.

The seats are only fastened to the body with 4 small bolts. My opinion, I do not think I would attach a safety harness to the headrest which is only sticking in the seat a few inches.

My interior guy just steamed the new ones and pulled them over the old covers. Looks great, took him about 15 minutes. He said you can't take off old covers with out destroying them.

What do you do with the trim bead that goes around the top of the headrest when you use the covers? Leave it or cut it off? I was thinking about the covers but I didn't know if the old bead would look good under the new cover.
Greg

i have never seen a good looking pair of recovered headrests.

The repops are okay, but I didnt like them. I ended up re-dying my white originals and they look great.

I have 727 white interior and the repops color was off quite a bit.

My repops, I cut the bead and instaled new covers from pui they do look good. If you get the right color for your car you would probably be happy with them. Wish they repoped Lt. blue 67s tho. I had to install them my wife would not go on long drives without being able to put her head back for naps. It was cheaper to get head rests than a new wife.

Still looking for photos of a disassembled headrest, if anyone has them.

The trim bead stayed on. But you can't tell, its a tight fit to put them on. He did it this way incase I didn't like it it could be taken off. Then he sprayed glue on bottom of head rest to attach.

I dont believe you can disamble the headrests.

I have one you can experiment on for $22 shipped.

Thanks John, but I think I have it figured out. My back seat retractables are in and functional, now to tweak the fronts.