Modern seat applications for 69 charger

[vanceboy]

To all,

Just purchased a 1969 charger RT-SE. It has real nice leather buckets in the front. I want take them out to save them and put something else in for driving around.

Any idea of which more modern buckets would fit? I see a lot of 2000s challenger and charger seats for sale on ebay.

Thanks

 

[davek]

Modern seats

Are these Challenger or Charger seats? How'd the rear fit when done? I'm looking at doing something similar in my 72 satellite. Nice! I like it!

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[Bird 426]

Don't take this the wrong way, but, you want to hack up your floor to save the looks of your orginal buckets? Seems like in another thread, you wanted to get your ride height up to orginal from it's lowered current state. You have a very nice looking orginal car there. Nothing that you can take away from a stock looking Charger like yours. BUT, it is your car.

 

[vanceboy]

Don't take this the wrong way, but, you want to hack up your floor to save the looks of your orginal buckets? Seems like in another thread, you wanted to get your ride height up to orginal from it's lowered current state. You have a very nice looking orginal car there. Nothing that you can take away from a stock looking Charger like yours. BUT, it is your car.

No, i dont want to hack up the floor. I would make or buy a set of adaptor plates that would mount to the stock seat locations but then have studs that matched whatever new seats i buy. I see scat sells such adapters for their seats.

 

[themechanic]

I just purchased a set of Procar by Scat with adapters. They're direct bolt in solution. They even recline. Material is sold by the yard to recover the rear seat to match, if desired.

 

[66 Sat]

Who are you saving the original seats for? The next owner?
Just leave it as it and drive the car around. It's lasted this long, you won't do any damage to it.

 

[Bird 426]

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[1 Wild R/T]

I suspect the comment about hacking the floor was aimed at the O/P's comment about modern Charger/Challenger seats... Those seats are to tall from the mounting surface to the seating surface so the people who have actually used them typically section the floor and lower the mounting area....

There are seats out there like the Scat seats that work... Though personally I'd leave the stock seats but it's not my car so the O/P can do whatever he chooses...

 

[Kern Dog]

Modern seats do hold you in place better but yeah, due to guidelines by the government, they are taller and wider than our old seats in the interest of collision safety.
The new Challenger seats do sit tall, to the point that the headrests would be close to the headliner.
I went with seats from a Neon SRT4. Mine are light and comfortable but don’t look anything like stock. My ‘70 seats looked great but didn’t hold me in place on curvy roads.

 

[kiwigtx]

Seats can be made to be more comfortable if you find a decent Upholsterer.......without changing the look of your OE appearing car. Sure, they won't be wrap-around cushions, but foam adjustments can be made, and different covering material if needed.

Unless you plan on doing a complete transformation into modern looking appendages, I would leave well enough alone.

Unless of course you have an LS swap planned for some time soon?

 

[themechanic]

Legendary Interiors sells foam and upholstery that adds top and bottom side bolsters to your stock bucket seat frames. But you still won't have the luxury of reclining seats. That's why I chose the Procar seats.

Corbeau also sells a seat and track combo for Mopars.

 

[68-500]

I just picked these 2006 PT Cruiser convertible buckets. They are loosely mounted for mock-up on sedan seat tracks.
BTW I will be posting a WTB ADD for another set sedan seat tracks.

 

[OneWheelPeel]

Doesn’t the PT passenger seat fold to form an almost table?

 

[Mopar Hunter]

Legendary Interiors sells foam and upholstery that adds top and bottom side bolsters to your stock bucket seat frames.

This? They don’t look too bad.

 

[themechanic]

This? They don’t look too bad.

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Maybe. There's a video from Legendary showing the installation.

 

[68-500]

Doesn’t the PT passenger seat fold to form an almost table?

These convertible seats dont seem to fold that way. Maybe the sedan ones do?

 

[OneWheelPeel]

These convertible seats dont seem to fold that way. Maybe the sedan ones do?

Probably, it was a regular sedan I checked out in the JY when I discovered that. You can kind of see it in this pic.