does anyone have a clue what this bench seat is out of? It has rectangle push buttons on the sides (towards the top) to lean the seat forward and a fold down armrest. Just trying to get an idea what this is out of originally.
70 maybe 71 72 fairlane used one in a 56 wagon in 74 works great leaves just alittle room on the sides not much hope this helps RED
it does..... really!!! I was told the suspension came from a 71 Torino, so your comment makes perfect sense. The original builder must have used a lot of stuff from the Torino.... including the seat. Thanks for helping me work towards solving this mystery!
Looks like a GM stratoback bench seat...they used those in Rivieras and other GM cars...if the plastic back looks like one from a Chevelle or GTO then that's what it is. If it has a rectangular button I would say 1967-68 vintage...
HIGHLY doubt the suspension is Torino. HIGHLY!! Probably GM, as is the rest of the interior, which all came from the same car, if I had to guess. As to which car, betting Tempest. Cosmo
I agree on the Stratobench, pulled one out of a '69 Eldo, post a pic of the back of one side and I'll be able to tell for sure.
When I was working on an pickup a few years back and trying to order a kit interior I called the customer service at Automotive Interiors dot com and they were able to track it down with the tag number. On some seats there's a metal tag wrapped around one the back support rods that has an embossed number, if you can get to the frame (maybe take off the back cover?) it might be there. I think the person I talked to was an older lady named Diana, she was the one who always answered the support line. She has been doing interior work for ever and has a pattern for almost everything and she tracks the patterns using these id numbers. Hope this helps.
Cosmo could be onto someting with the Tempest comment. The steering wheel is Pointiac which leads me to beleive the steering column and seat is as well. motor, trans, is all FOMOCO, as for suspension.... all factory ford stuff (I am still identifying the brakes though.... I have a feeling they are going to end up being GM as well. Will know soon enough, I finally have time to climb under and do some investigating (since i just got this truck a couple days ago)
so I figured out a couple things.... the steering wheel is 1968 GTO. The wheel is the exact same wheel from a 1968 GTO Coupe feature in Motor Trend Magazine (from 1968). The bench seems to be from an Olds Toranado, but could easily be from the same donor GTO as well (I just haven't found a pic of the GTP split bench that looks like this one, the Olds is a exact match), same with the steering column, def. GM tilt (no key), also looks to be 68 GTO.
adding pic of my wheel. Ya gotta love the 80s cassette deck.... that things gotta go). I just wish the previous owner hadn't cut the dash for it.
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