Hi Frank does the bulb in your picture of the completed seats, inflate a rubber ring or other such like attachment to help the posterior or back on long journey's?I was making these 20 years ago, but no longer do them. SouthernGT make then now . FrankView attachment 103438
Thanks Frank, I have SGT seats as you said very like yours, and sitting in a dropped floor pan, but no "bulb" which sounds good. Nice to know I am now certified normal.Nick, yes, but that's customer preference. I usually fit the flat bottom of the seat directly onto a lowered floor 40mm below normal floor level ( no runners ) gives the perfect ride height for " normal " people,
AndyOur seats all feature the suspended webbed base which is much, much more comfortable than seating a bit of foam that squashes to nothing on a long journey.
Ask me how I know.
Thanks
Andy
So.....in reply to this, with thanks to alot of help from people in the GT40 community I am definately getting there. There has been alot of looking at photos and working things out and making of prototypes, but I think we are on the final run.Looks like an original GT40, or maybe a perfect copy like the Gelscoe cars (or other faithful, exact copies). The seats aren't seats in the conventional sense - the bases are webbing straps which are stretched between welded-in mounting strips:-
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The seat backs are glass-reinforced epoxy resin - GRP or fibreglass - which are separate, and retained to the firewall (by Dzus on the original cars, I think?).
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@shaunybean on here has re-created them for his build. Pic above is another Gelscoe car, for no other reason than there are plenty of good pics on their website. @brianstewart re-created a pair for his CCD-chassis build; see on the Build Logs on this forum, and on Pistonheads:-
The upholstery is some form of fire-retardant nylon with minimal padding and the all-important eyelets.
What are you building?