My car is a 1968 Satellite with stock bucket seats. The seats have been restored and they have decent support, but I've ridden in a few other classic Mopars with aftermarket seats and I'm thinking about installing either some Procar Elites or the Procar 1680's so I can get a higher seatback and also adjustable recline. Some side bolstering is a nice bonus. I'm a thin build guy, 5' 10".
Below are example photos of the Procar Elites and Procar 1680's. Let me know which you prefer and if it's for a reason more than just looks (comfort, adjustability, fit, etc). I would love it if one of these seats not only offered recline, but also up/down height adjustment after the seat is mounted (meaning, adjustment while driving like in a modern car, not with just moving bolt hole mount location). Can anyone confirm if height adjust after mounting is possible with either of these?
Procar Elites (not my car - this is a Dodge Charger)
Procar 1680s
A few years ago I swapped in some bucket seats from a 2004 Honda Civic since I found them cheap. They were decent and more comfortable than my stock seats and really helped my back on a 15 hr drive road trip, but they didn't look right in my car. I remember when I installed those I had my friend John help me fab up some custom seat mounting brackets to make them work. He's a very good mechanic and craftsman and it took about a dozen trial mounts, removal, tweaking, re-mounting, measuring. It was an all day affair and I didn't really enjoy it one bit. I'm glad he helped with the fab and fine tuning. Anyway, I prefer not to go through that again. I was all set to order the pre-made Procar mounting brackets that are supposed to be car model and year specific, but I've read countless bad reviews reporting that the brackets are not good to go right out of the box for our B-bodies and almost always require modification to make them work. So my new plan is to use OEM seat brackets and mount to the Procar seats. Has anyone done this and have any cautions or advice? At a glance it looks like to mount to each seat it's just 4 bolts and the brackets mount to the floor pan with the other 4 bolts for each.
Below is a photo from the repop seat track assemblies offered by Classic Industries. The photo view is looking top down so 4 corner holes shown are the ones that mount to the underside of each seat. I was thinking to remove my current stock seat track assemblies from the stock seats and mount them to the new Procar seats, then wrap up the stock seats and put in storage. Good idea?
Below are example photos of the Procar Elites and Procar 1680's. Let me know which you prefer and if it's for a reason more than just looks (comfort, adjustability, fit, etc). I would love it if one of these seats not only offered recline, but also up/down height adjustment after the seat is mounted (meaning, adjustment while driving like in a modern car, not with just moving bolt hole mount location). Can anyone confirm if height adjust after mounting is possible with either of these?
Procar Elites (not my car - this is a Dodge Charger)
Procar 1680s
A few years ago I swapped in some bucket seats from a 2004 Honda Civic since I found them cheap. They were decent and more comfortable than my stock seats and really helped my back on a 15 hr drive road trip, but they didn't look right in my car. I remember when I installed those I had my friend John help me fab up some custom seat mounting brackets to make them work. He's a very good mechanic and craftsman and it took about a dozen trial mounts, removal, tweaking, re-mounting, measuring. It was an all day affair and I didn't really enjoy it one bit. I'm glad he helped with the fab and fine tuning. Anyway, I prefer not to go through that again. I was all set to order the pre-made Procar mounting brackets that are supposed to be car model and year specific, but I've read countless bad reviews reporting that the brackets are not good to go right out of the box for our B-bodies and almost always require modification to make them work. So my new plan is to use OEM seat brackets and mount to the Procar seats. Has anyone done this and have any cautions or advice? At a glance it looks like to mount to each seat it's just 4 bolts and the brackets mount to the floor pan with the other 4 bolts for each.
Below is a photo from the repop seat track assemblies offered by Classic Industries. The photo view is looking top down so 4 corner holes shown are the ones that mount to the underside of each seat. I was thinking to remove my current stock seat track assemblies from the stock seats and mount them to the new Procar seats, then wrap up the stock seats and put in storage. Good idea?
