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Re: 38 hits the road pics. [Re: Polarabill] #222574
03/03/09 09:58 PM
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Next question...What kind of seats and do you much room in the cab??


Beesting may have missed this question so I will answer as best I can for him.The seats are out of a Chrysler of some sort,but not sure what.Room for the driver is very limited and he is going to look into different seats.I think a low back bucket would work real well and Beesting thinks the back seat from a caravan would fit nicely.



Thanks ... I wonder if it would be tight. I had thought about Import Seats, alittle smaller, just a thought

Re: 38 hits the road pics. [Re: Webster] #222575
03/03/09 10:16 PM
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yes not much room ok for a short ride but not a long haul wife says they are ok but for me 6'3 270 and the seats being really thick too. makes for very little leg room, like polarabill said the back bench seat in a caravan would work a lot better also looking at a set of well a ok GEO seats but if they are cheap I'm there

Re: 38 hits the road pics. [Re: beesting] #222576
03/04/09 09:41 PM
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i'm going to use the center buckets [leather] from my old 95 caravan in my humpback. they are only 20 1/2" wide each, and i have them sitting in there now. seems to be enough room, but they need some kind of tracks mounted. i'm not sure if i'll take off the headrests. i remember looking at a high end neon at carlisle one time, and those seats seemed to look like they would fit. there is not much room in the 33-34 bodies, and i think the 35-39 would be very similar. when i had my 38 plymouth coupe, i used a cadillac bench, but i had to cut out over 12" to get it to fit.

Re: 38 hits the road pics. [Re: moparx] #222577
03/04/09 10:42 PM
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I'm not to that point yet with the Fargo ,just trying to get some different point of views.Those old cabs don't have alot of room in them

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Re: 38 hits the road pics. [Re: Webster] #222578
03/05/09 12:02 PM
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The largest issue with these cabs (other than the width) is that the cab narrows a fair amount from the back of the cab to the firewall. Therefore, any bench seat you use is best "pinched" or narrowed at the front to correspond to the cab taper. If you don't do this, you are losing quite a bit of seat width. I used a late 80s Mazda B2200 bench seat frame in my 37' pickup that I first narrowed and then pinched. You have a little more forgiveness with buckets if you like buckets in a pickup.

- EM

Re: 38 hits the road pics. [Re: earlymopar] #222579
03/05/09 09:28 PM
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In my 35 sedan, I used a pair of buckets from a ford fairmont. They were low back, thin, and narrow seats that were actually fairly comfy. Even the fairmont seats sat side by side, you had to be friends with whoever was riding with you. Tried seats from a front drive Mopar, but they were too high of a back and too wide. In my 54 pickup, I used a bench seat from a 4 door valent, it was narrow and set just under the rear window ledge. That 54 was a bit wider then the 30s cab would be, but there was still room on both sides of the valent seat, it might still fit. My 50 truck has an unknown set of buckets with the adjustable seat backs, those work out well, you set the back angle which lets you move the seat farther back. Gene

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