Technical Period-Looking Bucket Seats...Options?

While "not breaking the budget", given the cost of quality products today and the cost of reupholstering, I'd think you'd be lucky at $500 a seat unless you can do the work yourself. Give us an idea what your budget really is. This guy makes re-upholstery kits for lots of cars. I had good luck redoing Fiero seats but that has been quite a while ago.. http://www.mrmikes.com/miata_to_triumph.htm

 

Triumph TR 2, 3, 4, 6. Sunbeam Alpine or Tiger. Austin Healey. Jag, any foreign sports car really. Corvair, Mustang, etc.

 

That's what I have in my truck

 

I was just going to post this. Anyone who needs some seats, these seem pretty good and repairable. They're at the Pick Your Part (LQK) in Santa Fe Springs in a 1959 Volvo 544.

 

This is a drivers seat out of a bus that @Mr cheater found during a recent junkyard trip. A bit tougher to find a pair but the look is perfect and they're period correct.

I like the Volvo seats that @1oldtimer posted above as well. Those cars are tiny, I bet those seats are an ideal size.

 

Tough to find seats that are cheap and the back folds. Looked at all the above and ended up with a mini van bench I got for $20. I took off the old cover, used that for a pattern and my Wife made a new one. Pro car has Mustang style seats and check Ebay for "hot rod" seats, there are several different ones.

 

I would have to second the early Mustang buckets. No headrests, they fold forward and re-upholstery kits are readily available from Mustang restoration outfits at a reasonable cost.

 

Maybe these?
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1932-ford-bucket-seats.1328705/

 

Choosing seats is an interesting challenge. More to it than first meets the eye.

 

Guess it depends how far off the traditional road you want to travel. they're fine by me,though. I've got them in my OT '65 Mustang.

 

Brett, I had good luck with the early Mustang buckets 64-66 and they fit the tight confines and look like they were made for the Model A sedan. HRP

 

So I have been following along getting ideas for comfortable seats for my Tudor project that I am gathering parts for. My band was playing at a local car show today and I get talking to an old geezer about his FE powered 63 Galaxy. He tells me he is wrecking an old 64 Mustang and he has the interior and he has the 2 bucket seats that he wants to unload. Big deal I hear y'all say. Well, we live in a tiny country down here and American cars don't get parted out much and they were only $50 for the pair. Sorry to hijack this thread but thanks for all the info that has been posted. Hope the OP gets what they are looking for, carry on, cheers

 

@deadbeat . I agree with @deadbeat we are a small English influenced country and people rarely part out American cars. Hey those mustang seats are in my shop mezzanine now , isn’t possession 9/10 of the law? I did find some 69 Camaro seats here been listed here for 6 months on fake book .the dufus said, sold them 5 months ago . but never pulled the add ,and still hasn’t. The reason why I never go on fake book . There really are some loosers out there. We have so many rules here as to what seats we can use , gotta be 68 USA or newer, 74 or newer European . For whatever reason??.

 

Morris Minor seats. I had to cut the base down a couple of inches, and make a locking mechanism for the seat backs (to p*** our registration inspection). The original seat backs pivot forward and the whole seat can be pivoted forward as it was originally only mounted to the floor at the front., and not adjustable. I didn't like idea of being folded up like a piece of origami if I had to hit the anchors in a hurry, so I attached the bases to some runners.

 

I have 2 pair of seats from a 40 ford sedan delivery listed in the parts for sale forum. Cheap. I'm near Greensboro.