Bench or buckets ?

RedFish said

Drove 67 notch fish with bench for many years, drove 73 Valiant with bench for many years. Those 2 benches aren't the same. The earlier bench was much more confortable even though it was all vinyl and the Valiant bench had plaid cloth inserts. I think the difference is in their springs/filling construction.
The later model benches suffer spring failure. I never had a 67 bench that failed.

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the valiant may have had one of those benches with the foam molded to the frame ......the construction changed in 72 to make the bench seat backs thinner to give occupants more space .....also with the thinner seat back, when you folded it foward it went almost completely flat.....pretty handy idea but as they got old as started showing wear was when they were not so comfy anymore. the older seats were thicker foam and took longer to wear down.

at least thats my theory from what i have seen .......i am dabbling with upholstery and have re-done a few seats.