Getting a '73 Swinger Back on the Road
I thought I did the seats before the floors, but from the pictures it was obviously the other way around. Anyway, I wanted to replace the worn out bench seat. If this was a higher value vehicle I would have paid the money to have it recovered, but I couldn’t justify the price of that, especially for a pain bench that didn’t even have the center arm rest.
I checked out a local junkyard to see what the had and came across a set of cloth buckets from a Scion TC for $70 for the pair. First thing I did was strip off the unnecessary pieces
The driver’s side was very straight forward. I cut up some box tube and welded/bolted that to the bottom of the seat rails. I drilled holes into the box tube and welded in bolts at either end that would protrude though the floor and then made up some reinforcing pieces (basically big washers) to add some strength to the sheet metal.
I thought I did the seats before the floors, but from the pictures it was obviously the other way around. Anyway, I wanted to replace the worn out bench seat. If this was a higher value vehicle I would have paid the money to have it recovered, but I couldn’t justify the price of that, especially for a pain bench that didn’t even have the center arm rest.
I checked out a local junkyard to see what the had and came across a set of cloth buckets from a Scion TC for $70 for the pair. First thing I did was strip off the unnecessary pieces
The driver’s side was very straight forward. I cut up some box tube and welded/bolted that to the bottom of the seat rails. I drilled holes into the box tube and welded in bolts at either end that would protrude though the floor and then made up some reinforcing pieces (basically big washers) to add some strength to the sheet metal.
