Anyone build their own seats?

NEW Seat spring assemblies can be gotten for most Model Ts, Model As and many V8 Fords from either Car-line Mfg. in Beaumont TX or Snyder's in New Springfield OH.
Either will build you a custom size/shape seat spring assembly for either seat bottom or back rest using your drawing or original seat spring sample.

Most don't know how comfortable seats with coil spring seats are since they haven't built a car with them for probably 40plus years and a seat with worn-out, loose untied coils like most old cars have in them is a bad ride.

We always use coil-spring original-style seat bottom assemblies when building T buckets and folks who ride in them can't believe how comfortable they are. Of course, it helps if the suspension works too.

 

This is how I did mine, all you need is a tubing bender, a drill, some dimple dies, and a BFH.

 

amen! i just did 1100 miles round trip in my boss's roadster which is just foam. my back, ass and legs were aching for days afterward. totally worth it, but that is definitely not how mine is going to be done.

 

If you have your seat belt on then where is it any different?
As long as the mounting points are from the frame and not the seat.

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did you forget what the seat is going in a old hotrod
my floor is made of wood I think a seat made of plywood is just fine
Its the seat belt that keeps you in the seat and safe.

 

mini van seats are cheap plentyful! Get a tubular one they are easy to cut down to size,add usable tracks,alter foam,then alter cover to fit,or get it covered($300).Not too much $ for saftey and style!

 

In a model A tudor street rod I just saw it had a passenger seat from a school bus as a front seat , and it worked perfect for size but might need a little more foam. I have also hand made race bucket seats to fit roll cages out of sheet aluminum, with the back and sides as one piece and the bottom as another then connected together with pop rivets. My two cents worth , Rob.

 

I was considering using my old drivers seat that has a wood bottom. I will rethink that one now.

 

I respect the OEM seat designer's comments & he make some very solid points. We must keep in mind that we are talking hand made hot rods here, however. Just about every intrinsic feature of a home built car may be more dangerous than a modern vehicle. Older cars are not as safe as newer cars. When I was driving vehicles in the Army, I know that their seats were framed with wood. I don't remember any seatbelts, either (kind of like school buses). I personally believe that proper restraints are way more important than seat materials. Also, there is validity to the argument that things giving way in an accident is not a bad thing (such as crumple zones). If I get hit in the side of my '33 & it gets by the door & the frame, I'm not sure how a seat framed in wood is going to make things much worse.

 

bringing back an old post, Morrisman, any finished pics of this seat?