Let See Seats On Your 55-59 Truck

[steve757]

3rd Row Seats out of Chevy Suburban, very comfortable and gives extra leg room for us long legged people.

[starterman99]

Originally Posted by butchp

Can you get me the paint code of that blue it just right.

butchp that is a 2003 chrysler pt cruiser electric blue code PB5

[butchp]

Originally Posted by starterman99

butchp that is a 2003 chrysler pt cruiser electric blue code PB5

Starterman99 do you have more pictures of your truck or a build thread, thats the color I want to paint my truck.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by OrrieG

Here's mine 07 Yukon third row with shoulder belts built into the seat.

Orrie, I really like your seats but I'm wondering what's going on behind them with the plywood and the cutouts? They seem too big for just speakers.

Also, since your seat bottoms fold forward & give you nearly full access to the space under the seat it makes me think that if the spacing of the seat support frame and those rods had been planned right, you MIGHT be able to find some shallow plastic bins that would just drop in and work to keep things from rolling around. Any plans to make wood or fiberglas storage bins for those areas? Just an outstanding job on your install!

[starterman99]

Originally Posted by butchp

Starterman99 do you have more pictures of your truck or a build thread, thats the color I want to paint my truck.

butchp
this is one before it was finished.I dont have any recently but once weather gets nicer I am going to take more.

[butchp]

Thanks I look forward to see it finished. Mine is a 56 and still has the original red and white paint. It is a driver and I am working on a frame with a camaro sub and nolimit 4link with frame mounted fuel tank.

[Nikotrans]

Originally Posted by parkwood

Wise Guys seat frame covered in leather.....

Nice - how do you like them? Are they a direct bolt in replacement?

I assume you went with the springs and foam option and had them covered to match your interior theme. Looks like you opted out of the 6-way power option too.

It also looks like your '56 made the cover of Classic Trucks (Feb 2015 edition). Your truck has the look I'm striving for with my '57 - stock with a classy, modern touch. Very nice.

[parkwood]

Originally Posted by Nikotrans

Nice - how do you like them? Are they a direct bolt in replacement?

I assume you went with the springs and foam option and had them covered to match your interior theme. Looks like you opted out of the 6-way power option too.

It also looks like your '56 made the cover of Classic Trucks (Feb 2015 edition). Your truck has the look I'm striving for with my '57 - stock with a classy, modern touch. Very nice.

Niko, The truck belongs to a guy in So. Calif. and we put it together for him.. He bought the seat and the foam and yes it was a bolt in.. he didn't get the power with it as i don't think he would have every used it.. I'm not sure if it made the cover of Classic Truck mag or not... i'll have to check it out and it would be nice if it did. Hope yours turn's out as nice as this one did.....glad you liked it..

[57chevyman]

very basic

[_Ogre]

Originally Posted by 57chevyman

very basic

with seat belts

[Nikotrans]

Originally Posted by parkwood

Niko, The truck belongs to a guy in So. Calif. and we put it together for him.. He bought the seat and the foam and yes it was a bolt in.. he didn't get the power with it as i don't think he would have every used it.. I'm not sure if it made the cover of Classic Truck mag or not... i'll have to check it out and it would be nice if it did. Hope yours turn's out as nice as this one did.....glad you liked it..

Hmmm - the '56 that is in the magazine is owned by a guy in Canada, so I guess its not the one you worked on. Looks very similar though.

I think I'll go with the Good Guy seat for my '57. I'm thinking of going with the power option since I already went with power windows. I have a three point set of seatbelts from Julianos for a bench seat - they should fit with the Good Guys seat (I hope).

Thanks

[SCHRUMGMC]

Little ugly, but its going to be recovered soon

[parkwood]

Originally Posted by SCHRUMGMC

Little ugly, but its going to be recovered soon

I would call that, "well used"....... good luck with the new cover.. sure it will look great..

[SCHRUMGMC]

The seat wasn't that bad until I started working on it and it got worse.. The new cover will look the same but with my last name stitched in the middle

[parkwood]

Originally Posted by SCHRUMGMC

The seat wasn't that bad until I started working on it and it got worse.. The new cover will look the same but with my last name stitched in the middle

Had to look up your town in NC..... not far from where i was born, Morganton..Lived out in Salem 'til i was 8 then mom and dad packed us up and moved....still a Tar Heel at heart..

[_Ogre]

parkwood... i lived in morganton for 16 yrs, brindletown area south on us 64
my kids went to salem elementary
pre-kids the ms and i lived in lincolton
left the area for motown 17 yrs ago

[parkwood]

Originally Posted by _Ogre

parkwood... i lived in morganton for 16 yrs, brindletown area south on us 64
my kids went to salem elementary
pre-kids the ms and i lived in lincolton
left the area for motown 17 yrs ago

Ogre, my dad once told me that if you stand on a street corner in NY sooner or later someone would walk by that you knew.... Being only 6 or 7 i told him no way that could happen to many people in the world..... but now that i'm much older it's become a very small world..... I was only 8 when we left NC and went back for just one year when i was about 11 but still have a ton of stories to tell about that place.... When i went there the HS was still standing. played my first baseball game at salem in little league.. our house if you google earth was the one in the middle at the cross roads of Burkemount and Brown Rd.. Brown Rd was named after the Brown family that owned all the land that now has all the houses on it.. the old farm house is still at the end of the road at the curve .. most of the streets in that area are named after people i knew when we lived there.... ..

[SCHRUMGMC]

Originally Posted by _Ogre

parkwood... i lived in morganton for 16 yrs, brindletown area south on us 64
my kids went to salem elementary
pre-kids the ms and i lived in lincolton
left the area for motown 17 yrs ago

I love ole Lincolnton, Trick 1 customs is doing most of the work on my truck for me

[Clarance J]

This seat came out of a 1979 Cadillac Coupe Deville. 6-way electric adjustment with stamped steel pan with foam inserts and fold down arm rest. Original material was brown velour. Its 53 inches wide and fits nicely in the cab. Left the head rests off when I upholstered the seat. To me its very comfortable.

[SCHRUMGMC]

Interesting color scheme, what made you choose it?

[Clarance J]

Hey SCHRUMGMC. I had Clarance J painted yellow in 1975. At that time the upholstery was a dark and light brown vinyl. This time around I wanted something different. Looked at a lot of colors and liked the contrast so Lt aqua was my choice for both paint and upholstery.

[lowlife4life]

Here is a set of cavalier buckets. They are going to fit with my console idea. They look really low but feel great

[roger55]

Here's my '57 seat that I just had done:



He did the visor and arm rests in the same vinyl and the headliner will come from that roll of material:

[Kim57]

That's very nice.
Kim

[parkwood]

Roger, very nice.. really like the pattern of the seat..