New seats for the Rat Fink.

[Rick]

Since i cant afford the Total Bomber seats and thats the way i want to go here are a couple options i have to make my own for very little money.First off the stock seats.

And my two choices.

The seats i got from Buzzbucket

Not liking them at all gonna sell them.And use these there your standard cafeteria seats after i cover them in foan and a roll and pleat style like the rest of my interior should look pretty good.What do you guys think?

I asked my adviser and i just got looks from it.

Thats my gear shift knob i made .How do you guys think it turned out?

 

[Telman2]

Talk about thinking outside the box, I like your idea for the seats and that gearshift knob is way cool.

 

[Rick]

Thanks i just think the bombers are cool but to much money i had these at work so boom new seats.The knob is ceramic from????? my brother found it in a car that was a lease return.Never seen one like it before.I filled it with acrilic plastic and made an adaptor for the lokar shifter then bored the inside on a bridgeport mill at work then glued it all together.Shakes like krazy with the long lever.Still working on that one.

 

[Geo27T]

That knob looks real cool.Those seats are a good idea and they look comfortable.

 

[T-Odd]

This was one of those Halloween decoration clearance items, plastic, adapted for the Locar shifter. Picture is from a Christmas Parade a few years ago.

The seat is a Dodge caravan middle row seat coverend in a $5 blanket.

 

[Telman2]

This was one of those Halloween decoration clearance items, plastic, adapted for the Locar shifter. Picture is from a Christmas Parade a few years ago.

The seat is a Dodge caravan middle row seat coverend in a $5 blanket.

Wow, it must be nice being able to drive your bucket in December. Up here we usually have snow on the ground and the temp is in the teens.

 

[T-Odd]

We cruise year round... I even go driving (the one day) when it snows.

 

[Todd]

We cruise year round... I even go driving (the one day) when it snows.

Something that HOT (the car) should melt it before you get there.

 

[tfeverfred]

Do it. I'm going bomber seats in my next one.

 

[jmr122848]

were did you get the cafateria seats? That is what I want for mine, but haven't found any.
Mike in ep

 

[Rick]

were did you get the cafateria seats? That is what I want for mine, but haven't found any.
Mike in ep

In the cafateria at work.Seems there were two seats with broken legs.LOL And my boss said i could have them.

 

[Paulski]

I thought of using cafeteria chairs too, but came across a doctors office getting rid of there old office chairs from the seventies and asked if I could have them. They even came padded! They are just like cafeteria chairs but are made of fiberglass.

I think these are the same ones:

Vintage Herman Miller Eames era fiberglass shell chair - eBay (item 120326975326 end time Nov-07-08 12:05:00 PST)

 

[Rick]

I thought of using cafeteria chairs too, but came across a doctors office getting rid of there old office chairs from the seventies and asked if I could have them. They even came padded! They are just like cafeteria chairs but are made of fiberglass.

I think these are the same ones:

Vintage Herman Miller Eames era fiberglass shell chair - eBay (item 120326975326 end time Nov-07-08 12:05:00 PST)

I thought of those to but i had these so i'll just glass them to stiffen and put a tack strip around the outer edge(on the back).You'll have some glassing to do also the backs of your chairs narrow almost to a point at the top.But good thinking on your choice as some one said"Out Side The Box"