Reply to "Wanted: 1977 Pantera seats"

Uli, when I had our seats redone with new foam and leather by California's Mike Cook in '90, I told him the seats must fit both myself (6'2") and wife Judy (5'3"). Stock early seat backs can easily be made adjustable in rake, so Mike removed the rearmost seat base crossmember and bent it into a shallow arc facing back before adding new foam and a leather cover. Thus when a shorter driver sits more upright with the seat adjusted forward, the seat base crossmember does not touch the tailbone. Tall drivers slouch a bit with the seat slid back, so the altered crossmember doesn't intrude on them either way. Simple and well worth doing if multiple drivers are involved, especially on long drives.