If you want to go with cloth, and I'm unsure ...
... a set of later 240 cloth seat cover from the PnP may fit, rather snugly.
You would want to reconstruct the seat bottom web. The 164 seats and the 240 seats use that paper wrapped wire grid web with the four or five springs on either side.
I've used nylon wrapped steel wire rope to reinforce the seat bottom web.
I did the same for the seat back web.
As for the seat back, the later 240 seat back covers may be broad shouldered enough to a 164 seat back. Though the older 164 seat back head rest post holes are wider.
If you could get a set (seat bottom, seat back) of later 240, like 89-90+ cloth seat covers, and all have the vinyl back, it could work.
The PnP cloth seat covers are usually very dirty and require a good soak several times over in laundry detergent and Simple Green. If you can get them acceptably fresh and clean, perform some stitching repair along failing seams.
The newer 164 seats, like 1973+, use formed foam. The older 164 seats, like 1972 and earlier, use that woven sisal or other compressed plant fiber, like the early 1974-1977 or so seats.
I'm not sure. Just suggestin'.
Hope that help.
Buttermilk MacDuff.
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Volvo 164s are coolest. With M410 manual transmission, of course.
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