My 28 Tudor has a 5 inch chop so needs low seats, I have Camaro buckets which give me plenty of head room and have a narrow back also.
Stupid is as stupid does, I got rid of a set of 62 T-birds seats awhile back because I was tired of trippin over them. Too hard to sell seats because of the shipping.
Some minivan middle and third seats work well in A's for a bench seat. The mid-90s GM vans, the Olds anyways, had a modular 3-piece middle seat that looks like a low-back '60s bucket seat. I happened to look over one that was for sale once and thought they'd work good in a narrow car like a Model A and be both cheap at the junkyard and easier to find than something out of the '60s.
sixties, triumph, or fiat and volkswagen, but what looks killer is old coffee shop chairs from the fifties or sixties, sometimes you can find them in restaurant supply houses.
Not 60's but a pair of buckets from a late 80's/early 90's Pontiac Grand Am are pretty small & pretty comfy. They're lowback seats with a removable headrest. I got a pair in my stash for a future project. Best part is, ya can get em' cheap. (I got mine free!)
Lots of good suggestions. Partly it depends on if your car is chopped or not and how you feel about comfort vs minimalist appearances and how high a seat back you want. I have '84/85 Fiero seats in my A coupe. They fit, but it's close. Very comfortable, re-upholstery kits you can do yourself in leather (mrmikes.com), but they are fairly high with built in headrests. The 84/85's originally had stereo speakers built into them, which you may,or may not like. Oh,also, the Fiero seat was designed by the Lear Corporation for GM, not by GM. But the seat attachments are standard GM patterns so GM power seat racks, etc will fit.
I have early low back vw beetle seats in my sedan. They just touch eachother at the front of the seat bottoms in the center and have about an inch or so between the seat and the door. They are very comfortable, have taken several longer trips with it. They still have the tube bases and tracks and are not cut down to lower the seat height. I am a 6 foot, the car is not chopped or channeled. I have lots of legroom for comfort but do have to kind of pitch my head a little to see the streetlights. I will sacrifice that for the legroom anyday. When the sit lower to the floor, it makes it very hard for a taller person to sit on the seat and get your knees swung into the car. Just for thought I had a jeep rear seat in the rear of the sedan and it was way to narrow, now residing in the rear is a minivan rear seat and it is tight but I can squeeze all four of my boys on it, looks like a chinese firedrill when we roll up and all six of us get out, Joe
The middle seat out of a Mini-van works great as a front bench seat or rear seat (if you don't have a huge kick in your frame). I have one and mocked it up, front and back and it works nice. Cheap and easy to find at any yard!
okay so its not 60's but heres my go at it. i looked over this thread lastnight and set out this morning to find something, took measurments of the A and went to the junk yard, i found that almost all mini van 3rd row seats are to wide and require cutting, same with s10 seats, i found mitsubishi montero rear seat is a very good fit, no cutting of the seat. just an alternative for some one, i found it works and im passing it along.
Me, for what its worth,in my 30 tudor am using early beetle seats (pre 69).They are a tight fit but for comfort they have springs as oppossed to being a foam squab.Im a heavy guy 200+ pounds & 6ft tall so comfort is important.Deadbeat
I'm using early Morris Minor seats in my 28 tudor. I had to modify the mounts to lower them, but they were free.
Non-conformist that I am, I'm considering using the stock front bucket seats in my '28 Tudor. They bolt in (as if they were made to fit ), they tilt and tumble forward to provide access to the back seat and with some new foam, they're pretty comfortable. Also, new upholstery kits are inexpensive and readily available. Whooda thunk it?
Yeah, what he said, thats what alot of us old farts used "back in the day", although don't know how easy thay are to find...
alot of folks are mentioning beetle seats, but they are on sliders and would require more modification to mount than other seats. just a added tip, the montero seat that i found does NOT have headrest, as i see mentioned from newer car seats. it acutaly looks stock.
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