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Old 10-08-2014, 08:47 PM   #13
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Re: Bucket seats in C10 -81. Original or not?

I have seen a number of factory ordered regular cabs with the high back buckets in ambulances and utility trucks and such. My company had a special ordered 4x4 regular cab with high back buckets and air conditioning and the rear cab was cut open to the enclosed utility bed to work in a climate control area to handle fiber cable splices. There was a posting here about a black 84 Chevy SWAT team K30 cab chassis/ box truck on eBay a couple months back that has factory high back buckets in it but no console. May have been removed for the modification. I believe they always have been available to be ordered from the factory depending on your dealer and zone rep. I think even the Military ambulance cab chassis trucks had the high back bucket seat option from GM in 1986. I'm thinking Keith Seymore may have seen a lot of bucket seat reg cab trucks if he was at Janesville plant as it seems most of the HD trucks came from that plant. Got to remember most body upfitter companies won't touch commercial truck modifications to seats and seat belts after the liability laws got tougher.
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