Fixed back bucket seats - street car

[rmchrgr]

Anyone have fixed back style bucket seats in their street machine? Like an A100 type seat?

I have a set of very cool high + fixed back buckets out of an 85 Jeep Scrambler. I'm committed to these as I just got new upholstery for them. Pic below is for reference. They are very similar to A100 van seats - almost identical in some ways.

Here's the thing - I've read some conflicting info around the internets about whether this is safe practice to run fixed back seats without a roll bar. Not sure I understand why. Now that I think about it, Jeeps had a roll bar but I'm still having a hard time connecting whether its safer to have a non-fixed back seat.

The bench seat I took out of my Duster is essentially a fixed back but it does recline forward to allow rear seat access.

I know there's plenty of street cars and 4 wheelers around running poly seats etc.

Plan was to use the factory seat belts with this set up.

Also trying to figure out how to mount these things using A100 seat sliders. Going to have to find a seat adapter or make one. Looks like it may be a pain, may get some A100 seat brackets and bolt them to the floor and dispense with the slider. Been looking at the bottom of the seats for two days and nothing is jumping out at me.

Thanks for any input.

- Greg

 

[TrailBeast]

Those are nice, but trying to make sliders for them that work well is going to be a pain in the butt.
I made brackets to adapt to the Dart floor since it is uneven and not flat so I could put a set of seats in that already had flat floor sliders on them (and that was a bit of a pain even)
It was worth it in the end, but these slide, tilt and even move forward about 6 inches when you tilt them to let someone in the back seat.

 

[rmchrgr]

Those are nice, but trying to make sliders for them that work well is going to be a pain in the butt.

I actually have a set of NOS A100 van seats that I trying to adapt to the Jeep seats. The A100 seats were actually from a van so thery came with sliders and a mounting box type thing. No way would the box work unless I cut it apart. I need a bracket or tab to mount the sliders to the seats (slider holes don't line up with the seat frame holes) then a way to mount the slider to a seat bracket and last to the floor. That's why i was thinking about the A100 super stock brackets, they're a bolt in.

Still thinking about it, I hope to make something work. Probably will go get some steel stock and start bending and drilling.

 

[Bulldozer]

these are fixed back but they are on sliders. 4 door escort