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Originally posted by Mangusta:
Wow!!!! Good Stuff here!!!

Doug: Didn't get Pantera seats with car Frowner Frowner Frowner Otherwise would be having a different conversation, like where to get new foam and covers...... Smiler


Steve


Hall sells the Pantera seats. I guess these days no one has heard of them?

The '74 is the one with the molded cover. Before that the sheet steel cover is what was used. Correct.



The mounting flange for the hand brake can be shaved and the hand brake can be moved closer to the console. The bulkhead can be reduced in a number of ways.

Probably the thing to do is first take it out, then fit the seat, then build a bulkhead cover to fit it.

The pulleys can be moved back about 2 inches as can the alternator and the ac compressor. Kirk's Amerisport modification is an excellent way to go if you don't want to do it yourself BUT virtually any fabricator can do it but it takes a little while to work out the details and several fittings of the seats.



The problem with those Corvette seats is the side bolsters. The Pantera seats don't have them OR need them. The bottoms are true buckets and are going to hold you in place just the way they are.

The original design isn't wrong, just the details on the passenger seat and the bulkhead seem to never have been worked out completely. It was as if the development project ran out of funds at some point and they couldn't even put a cover on the console?

It doens't make sense but it is what it is.



The Corvette seats are the proverbial round peg in a square hole but you are going to need to twiddle on the peg a little to make them fit.

Ultimately I think you are going to need to move the location of the seat holes to the right about an inch to make them work at all.

As far as making the Pantera tracks work easily...good luck on that. Today they will work. I don't know about tomorrow though?



The aftermarket seat that fits the Pantera very well is the Scheel. Too bad they are out of business?
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