FAQ's

- Is your car furniture built from real cars?
YES, that’s correct ---Really!?!? Original metal cars? Yes, every car couch and other car furniture built at ‘Classic Couches’ starts as an original steel junk yard car. In other words, the steel body of our ’65 Mustang couch was born as a whole car at a Ford plant in 1965.

-What is a car couch?
In general terms a car couch is a functional piece of art built from a real car that acts as seating in homes and businesses. When custom built by our shop Classic Couches, they can come many different shapes and sizes for specific uses. The fun thing about this art medium is the interior design elements can be

-What is the best material for a car couch?
This really depends on what your use for the car furniture is whether commercial or residential. For a commercial setting our standard material is a Naugahyde product line called ‘Spirit Millenium’. On the other hand if you’re using your new car couch in a private setting we prefer a synthetic leather interior. Modern synthetic leathers are often more plush than natural materials and will be far more durable.

- I am interested in selling your car parts furniture, do you have dealers?
Yes, we have dealers in many markets, covering many industries. There is always room for more, we would love to hear from you! Our wholesale program is negotiable to suit your individual business plan.

- What cars, year make and model, can I choose to have car furniture made from?
Any year, make, and model automobile. We inventory many front and rear ends of cars. If we don’t have it we can find it! Although we traditionally work with American classic cars from the 1950’s and 1960’s we can accommodate requests for anything from antique to modern imports. We encourage you to visit our home page https://sweetsofas.com/

-Can you take a car I already have or parts I have collected and build collectibles from it?
Yes. We can work together to design and build personalized car couches and other unique décor from items you already have.

- Can you fabricate a personalized project for me?
Yes, in fact almost every project we do is custom to our customers specifications. This can include options beyond what type of car furniture you’d like to have built. Options such as exterior body color(s), interior color(s), interior pattern(s), some dimensions, and more are customizable.

- How long have you been in business?
We have been designing, building, and delivering world class car furniture since 1982. We’re located on the same historic property that the car couch was invented on. Our craftsmen are long term employees and in some cases legacy talent with their parent having worked in our restoration shop.

- How do you ship your collectibles?
When you’re in the business of selling quality, it’s important to oversee a shipping method that is equally as safe, user friendly, and reasonably priced as the car sofas themselves. Traditionally we would enclose the collectible in new custom-built plywood crate and ship via truck freight (think FedEx freight). In some cases, white glove providers (van lines) are the best option. Lastly, as you can imagine we travel the contiguous 48 states often picking up junk cars for our projects. If we can work your delivery into our trip, we enjoy the opportunity to deliver restoration projects in person!

- What color can you paint my car furniture?
We can paint your car an original OEM color, custom color from another model year, or completely custom tone. Our projects are painted with high end automotive finishes primarily from PPG but, you’ll often see materials from House of Kolors, Revolt, Tamco, and others being sprayed on car couches.

- What are the interior options on my custom car couch?
Our standard interior is a synthetic leather product that is very durable and qualifies for fire ratings and other commercial code requirements. We can provide rub test results and other lab tests for your approval. We have some great genuine leather and cloth options available. If you’re wanting to match existing furniture you already have our interior trim person is very skilled at locating and matching materials from other suppliers.

- Can you ship your restoration projects overseas/worldwide?
The simple answer is YES we can ship our car furniture worldwide and have many years of experience doing so. We offer shipping via land, ocean, and air through our logistics partners. We can arrange that shipping to either your nearest port or directly to your door. We can help arrange customs/boarder broker partners for a smooth transition. If you’re looking for container consolidation and loading, we can assist with that. Our shop is located near Chicago, Illinois a major city with all lanes of shipping available.

- Do the lights work?
Yes, headlights and tail lights work on 110V electric. Just plug them into your outlet. We do offer battery operated lights as needed. Our light bulbs are not proprietary so inevitably when they burn out you can easily source and replace them.

- Are the bumpers and other trim work chrome or painted?
New Chrome. We’re making an honest effort to restore each car couch to showroom new condition. That quality restoration work includes all new chrome plating! The trim restoration is taken as seriously as the paint and interior restoration.

- Besides cool functional art from cars what other kinds of vintage collectibles do you restore that I may be interested in?
Our car furniture will always be our ‘first love’ but over the years we’ve become very experienced in restoring other fun types of antique items. Vintage gas pump restorations, antique drive in movie speaker restoration, parking meter restoration, old gas station equipment repair, and may other fun projects go in in our restoration shop.

- Do you also do business are ‘Ride Restorations’ the people who restore coin operated kiddie rides?
Yes, so around 15 years ago a great customer of ours was looking to have a carnival ride restored. We took on the project because it looked like a good expression of creativity. Since then we have opened a small business restoring high end vintage coin operated kiddie rides. You can learn more here: www.riderestorations.com

What are some unique car part furniture ideas for a man cave besides couches?
Over the last 40+ years we’ve built some unimaginable designs in car furniture. The mainstay of our business is the traditional car couch. We create a number of front end bar/counter/point of purchase displays that are super versatile items for both home and business. Larger furniture made from car parts such as the diner booths are a wild interior design element.

Compare fiberglass replicas to actual car part couches?
As mentioned previously ‘Sweet Sofas’ only offers car furniture made from real junk yard classic cars. Over the years there have been pop up companies offering various car furniture designs from replica composite molds. The key conversation from a business point is with a few exceptions these companies aren’t offering licensed products and have very limited ability to customize car part couches to a buyers specifications. Although, to us the biggest factor is the reproduction parts are simply painted silver not the high gloss perfect chrome plating you would expect from a classic car couch.