Gunna give it the Jenny treatment

If time allows on both our ends, and I doubt it. For now,he's going to be replacing some bolts and nuts here and there, just a skimming of the surface. That car is light already enough from the factory. Imagine if I had started with such a package from the beginning but I love my 65'

Man all I can say is , I read alot of threads here on Moparts for the past 14 years. a lot of really great info here..This is the best !!!!

I agree and never even thought it would still be goin strong..........

My A100 seats weigh in at 25 lbs. with the Superstock aluminum brackets attached. They are much more comfortable than I thought they would be! I'm glad someone posted the weight of the bench seat as I threw it away years ago and never weighed it!

Heard they were made by Bostrom, not sure if that is correct.

I know it's been covered here way back, but any guesses as to what the '65 Belvy windshield weighs? I'm thinking of getting Lexan from Proglass.

Hey Lee, what was the fee for dipping your fenders?

Chrisnben

The windshield on your 65' Belvy should not be any different than a Dodge Coronet so as far as weight goes, the windshield weighs approximately 30 Lbs.
The bubble windshield that was installed in its place weighed only 11 LBs. There's the math and also the math of how much it cost I don't want to remember. LOL.
I'm glad I weighed it when it was removed being that both I can now go back to these notes for you guys and also that fact that I mistakenly crushed it by backing the car over it in the garage.

The fenders were not acid dipped, they are authentic A-990 Race Hemi thin gauge fenders that my friend Haze found for me by chance out in New Mexico. I drove out there and back within 4 days just to secure them. The story behind getting them back to New York is a chapter in itself

You can however get any of your respective parts dipped with the cat out in Detroit. If you are serious or anybody else for that matter, just PM me and I will give you his direct contact. I just don't publicly want to blow up his spot on here.

Shipping would be an i$$ue unless you are within driving distance, but he is very very reasonable and an expert. I stop there and shoot shop every Summer when I drive in from New York. He has dipped other various parts for me and is now dipping some more parts for my friend Slick Rick.

GY
Yes Bostrom made the originals.
Split bench seats weigh just a tad over the fixed back bench seat because of the extra webbing and brackets to allow it to fold down. I forgot, the weight was calculated with the hardware and seat belts.
Back seat weighed somewhere near 50 Lbs for both bottom and back sections with hardware.

Bostrom is correct. I have a set of NOS A100 seats - they have these steel box bases with the seat tracks bolted to them. Says Bostrom on the seat belts. I have not weighed one but with the OE bases and tracks, they are pretty heavy.

Little quick anecdote - I actually tried to see if I could make one of the bases work in my car because I wanted a slider. I had been unhappy with where my seat positioned me, was up too high and forward. So I cut one of the bases down (it was all rusty anyway) and it could have worked but I abandoned the project for now. Was gonna make the holes in the sides like the S/S brackets, would have been kinda cool. Maybe they will be for some other project. I ended up re-drilling the frames on my current seats to move them back which worked well.

Way back on page 24, I posted about the seats in my car - fixed, high-back buckets from an '80s Jeep Scrambler - 21 lbs. total with Super Stock seat brackets. Comfortable too and look like they belong in my car.

Yes, high backs look the part in a later model A car for sure as well as a later B-car. For some reason the low back Bostroms look as cheap as the factory intended for those cars to look back then. they were both experimenting and discovering at the time.
By the time the A-cars came to be in the game, advancements had been made in seat comfort and looks as well as safety.

WOW, NOS A-100's? Those bases were to keep the driver up and high in those vans/trucks I guess.

I got a little under the grinder the other day and..............%+# camera went south.

I've had them for years, since like 1998 maybe? Got them from a guy in Freeport, he had about 10-12 sets of them in a basement. I was dumb, shoulda bought them all but I had no place to put 'em, I lived in a one bedroom apartment in Queens at the time.


Here's the OE base by itself, without the seat tracks. The tracks bolt to the bottom of the seat and to the flat overhang at the back of the base. The tracks are held in the front by a rod that goes through the bottom of the tracks and those vertical supports. You can see it in the pic above, there's a U-bracket on the bottom of each track with two holes that the rod passes through. The rod is held in place with push nuts on each side.


This steel plate was bolted to the back of each the seats, you can see the holes in the cover. That plate is thick, weighs like 5 lbs.


Here's the base I modified. I cut it an an angle like the S/S seat brackets. I inhaled a lot of dust that day, my lungs were not happy. Not half as light as the S/S seat brackets unfortunately but I was willing to sacrifice a few lbs. for a better seat position.


You can see here how much I cut it down. The bases have a 90 degree bend at the bottom where they bolt to the floor. The one I cut was rusted badly so I didn't care about cutting it up.


Kinda cool to see how they were used in something other than the S/S cars, you don't really see that stuff every day. Forgotten factory odd ball minutiae.

Wow.

and so there is where the weight is, those steel bases. The seats alone sans the adjusting tracks should come in anywhere between 19-21 Lbs each. Man, you could have supplied a good number of Hemi A-body cars with their correct seating.

Since you have high backs that look and function correct for your car, I can unload the weight of those ERA A-100's from you. LOL.

Yeah, I feel you on the storage room. If had the space for what I have seen over the years, I'd have a little treasure trove. I barely have room for my extras for my car that are either waiting to be installed or have been taken off.

Okay, since no one came up with the magic part name for what was morphing out of an igloo block of cold 7075 aluminum, here it is in its infancy being parted from its brethren.

And the Survey says!
Door Striker.
The original weighs a whopping 8.85 ounces or basically a tad over a half a pound without hardware and backing plate, (more on that later)

Big brother acting as a template using a little spray paint as the guide coat.

Here it is ready for the drill press and for an appointment with a shade tree cutting tool that you would not imagine to make the crucial center (C) shape hole. More to come later.

You are a sick man and I love it as I`m sure many others do.......

I guess we're all patients within this "One flew over the Cuckoo's nest" LOL.

i'm thinking i may know your plan of attack for the "c" hole, but i will let you show the action..... [at least i think i do]