Switching drivers bucket seat with passenger bucket seat?

[Dibbons]

MY '72 SSP passenger bucket seat is not all torn up like the driver's side. Has anyone tried swapping them by changing the seat tracks and bucket backs where the release button is?

 

[Magnes]

You could try it but, by the looks of your driver's seat, if you mess with those seats too much they are just going to deteriorate into a big pile of dirty scrap material. Even if you get that passenger cover on the driver side by swapping this or switching that, the "good" passenger cover isn't going to last long and before you know it, you'll be sitting on a seat much like you have now. If you drive the car much, I'd give that passenger seat a month MAYBE... Probably wouldn't even last that long.

You're going to have to get some covers and some foam. If you aren't at that stage yet in your restoration, then just get some cheap Autozone seat covers and stick some foam or an old pillow on that seat bottom to keep your butt off the springs.

 

[Dibbons]

OK. Well, a while back I bought the contoured foam over the internet for (1972) bucket seats. What has me befuddled, is the metal frame inside the foam of the factory buckets. The foam I purchased is just pre-formed foam. How is my new foam going to hold up without the factory metal frame structure? Someone said the metal frame structure was not originally built into the foam, but the foam split open over the years and the metal slipped inside the foam, but I don't believe that.

 

[Magnes]

Yeah, I don't believe that either. I've done several sets of seat covers on these seats and every time, the foam slips around the frame. I can't imagine it working any other way.

This is the last set I did and I reused the original foam which slipped over the frames of both the seat bottoms and the seat backs.

 

[mike71ssp]

power seats for me,,,,,

 

[Dibbons]

I love those power seats, where did they originate from? Factory?

 

[Bruzilla]

I agree with Magnes that the passenger seat cover isn't likely long for this world. I don't know that you necessarily need new foam. I redid the rear seats in my 74, and the foam was in rough shape. I just bought some firm 1" foam and glued it over the old foam using contact cement, and then beveled the edges. When I put on a new set of Legendary Interiors covers they fit perfectly.