There is no limpin' in my kid's pimpin'
For all those that have kids out there, you've all had to go through the same thing I did. Moving out of the baby rear-facing, straight-jacket, 5-point race harness seat and into an actual booster seat. Its when my baby boy became my, well, not so baby boy anymore. Basically until your kid hit a certain weight or age they needed to ride in a booster seat while in a car. For us this was a total pain because everything we saw was just BUTT freaking ugly. There had to be a solution.
Turns out there isn't one available and I just had to work it out myself. So I called up the upholstery shop that did a bad ass job with my 40's interior. I asked them about working with leather. Turns out they love it. I asked them about a booster seat.
They said, "qué?"
A leather kid's seat.
"You're a crazy gringo. Show us what you want to do."
So my wife and I found a decently shaped booster seat and took it to them. They looked at me like I the biggest retard in the world.
But I persisted. I asked them to make the lines, stitching and bunching the same as found on the LX seats. The said sure.
5 days and $220 later I now had my $300 Child's Booster Seat® (the seat was $80)
The funniest part is that the shop said that they had people commenting on the project and they actually got two people who wanted the same thing done to their leather clad SUV.
It looks like it was made for the Lexus. In fact thats all I kept hearing while we were using it. Everyone thought it was an option through Lexus.
Of course my son is 11 now so maybe its time to sell this thing
BTW this thing is about 6ish years old. Just figured it might inspire or make someone gag