Looking for real 1968 Super Stock Seats
I got them a while ago, like in the late '90s. I paid $140 for the set. They are NOS. They are black. :D
Guy had about 10 sets of them in a basement. Didn't really have the money to buy more than one pair at the time. Nor did I have the sense to try and find the money to do so...
Dude I got them from was a gear head. Not really sure where or how he acquired the seats but it made sense that he had them. There were Hilborn injection sets on the shelves, NOS Mopar manual steering boxes, (I kind of remember him giving me one of those, still had the cosmoline on it) all sorts of stuff down there. He had a front motored Corvair outside and an old Anglia that was made into a street rod sitting in a trailer...
Here's some pics I took fairly recently. I was messing with the seat bases to see if I could modify them to work in my Duster. I had the idea that I wanted adjustable seat tracks rather than the fixed ones that I have. I suppose it could have worked but I abandoned the idea. A100 seats are too '60s anyway, they would have looked slightly out of place in my car.
Below is a comparison shot of the seat bases. The bases are from a truck/van application.The shorter one has been cut down a few inches to make it work in a car. Don't worry, it was all rusted out on the bottom, I wouldn't have done it if it was in decent enough condition. When I bought the seats, the guy's basement had a few inches of water in it, the seat bases were sitting in it...
My seats had these heavy plates attached to the backs of them. I'm guessing they were to secure the seat back to whatever structural sheet metal was behind the seats.
This is what the seat base looks like by itself. The seat tracks bolt to the "L" bracket on the rear. See the vertical supports in the front? There is a rod that slides through two loops on the bottom of the seat tracks and the supports to hold it in place. The rod is held in by push nuts on either side. The seat belt retractors are bolted to the base itself.
Here's a pic of the original seat track bolted to the base I cut down. Note the rod in the front. You can see how the bases are supposed to look in the pic above, they are flat on the bottom. That was what I cut out on this one, again, it was totally rusted.
Seat track slider handle on modified base.
BTW, the OE holes for the seat tracks DO NOT line up with the holes in the S/S seat brackets, at least in this particular application. The holes are also offset to one side or the other depending on which side the seat was mounted to.
Hope that sheds some light on the subject.
I got them a while ago, like in the late '90s. I paid $140 for the set. They are NOS. They are black. :D
Guy had about 10 sets of them in a basement. Didn't really have the money to buy more than one pair at the time. Nor did I have the sense to try and find the money to do so...
Dude I got them from was a gear head. Not really sure where or how he acquired the seats but it made sense that he had them. There were Hilborn injection sets on the shelves, NOS Mopar manual steering boxes, (I kind of remember him giving me one of those, still had the cosmoline on it) all sorts of stuff down there. He had a front motored Corvair outside and an old Anglia that was made into a street rod sitting in a trailer...
Here's some pics I took fairly recently. I was messing with the seat bases to see if I could modify them to work in my Duster. I had the idea that I wanted adjustable seat tracks rather than the fixed ones that I have. I suppose it could have worked but I abandoned the idea. A100 seats are too '60s anyway, they would have looked slightly out of place in my car.
Below is a comparison shot of the seat bases. The bases are from a truck/van application.The shorter one has been cut down a few inches to make it work in a car. Don't worry, it was all rusted out on the bottom, I wouldn't have done it if it was in decent enough condition. When I bought the seats, the guy's basement had a few inches of water in it, the seat bases were sitting in it...
My seats had these heavy plates attached to the backs of them. I'm guessing they were to secure the seat back to whatever structural sheet metal was behind the seats.
This is what the seat base looks like by itself. The seat tracks bolt to the "L" bracket on the rear. See the vertical supports in the front? There is a rod that slides through two loops on the bottom of the seat tracks and the supports to hold it in place. The rod is held in by push nuts on either side. The seat belt retractors are bolted to the base itself.
Here's a pic of the original seat track bolted to the base I cut down. Note the rod in the front. You can see how the bases are supposed to look in the pic above, they are flat on the bottom. That was what I cut out on this one, again, it was totally rusted.
Seat track slider handle on modified base.
BTW, the OE holes for the seat tracks DO NOT line up with the holes in the S/S seat brackets, at least in this particular application. The holes are also offset to one side or the other depending on which side the seat was mounted to.
Hope that sheds some light on the subject.
