The best place to buy seats is a salvage yard....

I prowl around and over all the seats in the salvage yards. Some places have them in rows. Leather, Cloth, Buckets, 40/60, Manual, Six-Way Power, Reclining, Fold-Forward in every color imaginable. Most late model interiors are either gray, tan, black, blue or maroon. You can buy a $1,500 pair of seats for $600. And you can buy some attractive fabric buckets for $150 a pair too. Compare that to a Recaro, MOMO or Corbeau Racing seat, which start a $600 each.

Look for seats that came out of a two door vehicle that "fold-forward". Regular cab pickups require a Fold-Forward seat like those that come out of wrecked Camaro/Firebirds. Other cars, like Acura Legend and Honda Accord have nice leather seats that also fold forward. This might even be important to extended cab guys.

Late model electric seats have the controls right on the seat: If you look underneath a late model six-way powered seat, you'll find that all is required in most cases is a hot 12volt and ground wire to make it work like factory. So, if you don't like hairy wiring problems ... make certain the controls are right on the seat ... not on the car door.

Many of these seats out of wrecks are in perfect condition. I fell in love with a Silver-Gray pair of Chrysler New Yorker Bucket Seats. They were in perfect condition with six-way power, lumbar adjust. and head rest. They wanted $600 for the pair. That's cheap when you price new ones. Of course, they have to be mounted in a pick up truck, which requires some engineering. But I think it's worth the trouble!!!

Hope this information helps you.

BillVoyles
'99 Bright Red F150 4.6/Auto w/ Regular Cab Flareside stock.

 

IMO find a console from an Expy or Nav. I have a friend that wants to do the same with the bench in his 2000 xlt.