Technical GM bucket seats

Does anyone recognize this 60s GM bucket seat? I can't tell if it will fit an "A" body and I don't recognize the upholstery pattern.

 

I’m no expert, but they sure appear to be mid-60’s A body seats from what I know. They look just like the ones I had in my 64 GTO at least as far as shape.

 

try 63 Pontiac Tempest LeMans

 

Are you sure those are GM? Kinda look like a '65 Mustang seat.

 

My 63 Corvair had the same seats as A body from what I think I know other than the tracks are different...I think.

 

Are we sure it's not a Dodge?

 

It's the tempest seats that squirrel posted

 

Thanks, guys. I spent most of yesterday reading seat ID posts and looking at pictures without a good conclusion. I did find a lot of information on the differences between A body, Corvair, B body and the early "Y" body (Tempest Cutlass, Skylark, Special), but not all the information I was looking for to see if these fit 64-5 Chevelle. This helps a lot, especially the seat picture, Jim.
Now to go take a look and compare them to my 64 Malibu.

 

I'm trying to recollect where the shift lever was on these Tempests with the trans-axles. I'm not seeing it on the floor or RH side of the column. Did they use a dash mounted lever like the Corvairs?

 

It was dash mounted, similar to the Corvair, but different. The chrome knob is the shifter, the little window tells what gear you might have selected.

 

To fit in a Model A they should be around 20" across (or less) at the widest part of seat bottom. OOps, I thought you were asking about an "old" car!

 

"what gear you might have selected"

HaHa. @squirrel Is there a story there?

 

Not really, it's just a vague shifter with a long cable.

 

The 1964 and 1965 A body seats will have 4 perforations in the front part of the frame where the 4 bottom springs attach. Believe it or not Corvair and earlier seats like these 1963 LeMans seats (and other GM cars like it) are 1" or so wider...and have 5 springs along the bottom and 5 holes where they attach to the front part of the frame. You cannot put repro seat covers from a 1964 Chevelle on these seats shown as they are wider. You'd think it was the reverse..that the 1964 or 65 A body seats would be wider...nope. I went through all this when I was looking for seats for my '64 El Camino....here's the 5 perforations...

 

Here's a proper 1964 or 1965 A body seat. Note the 4 springs along the bottom and the 4 attachment holes in the front frame as seen from underneath..

 

I bet that the Chevelles and other A bodies used narrower bucket seats to accommodate the bigger drive shaft tunnel. The Tempests with the trans-axles had a relatively flat floor pan.

 

The seats almost touch each other in an early Corvair and Tempest.

 

You're probably right. But if you had to guess which car had larger seats...a Corvair or a Chevelle..most people would assume Chevelle. The trans tunnel reason is probably it.

 

. Yup, here's info from the Chevelle forum.

https://www.chevelles.com/threads/v...-65-corvair-nova-seats.1011505/#post-10217177

 

Great information guys. I deleted my incorrect post. Here's one of the six Super Duty 63's, it definitely has a trans tunnel, ha ha.

 

I put a pair of these in a 51 Chevy convertible. I got them from a Corvair. Would the way they fold forward also help to identify the cars that they came from? The Corvair seats folded straight forward, where some would fold in on an angle and towards the tunnel to allow easier entry to the rear seat. The larger GM cars possibly? My seats had chrome hockey stick type trim on the outer sides. The inner sides of the seats didn't.