Sitting in the driver’s seat
So I am sitting in the
driver’s seat and anywhere I look and touch, there is some connection with my
efforts at getting this car to where it is today. The seats were re-skinned
with vinyl taken from an extra set of seats that came with the car.
Additionally the chrome Recaro recliner parts were installed as well --
so I have slider back releases instead of the 1971 “shark fin” seat back
release devices. Note that early 911 seat recliners were fastened to
the upper and lower seats with three bolts; between 1969-73, however, only two
bolt fasteners were used. Also in 1973 the chrome recliners were made black. I
also placed a piece of carpet backing in the bottom of the seat, to firm up
weak springs and to raise the position of the driver a bit. That way I would
not sink in to the floor! The new tool involved in re-furbishing the seat were
hog ring pliers, that along with hog rings, when squeezed shut, fastened the
skin to the seat frame.
In the near future, I
really need to do the passenger seat bolstering as well, as my wife Kaye
complains that the weak springs result in her sitting too far forward and low.
It is not that hard to remove the seats –just a few Allen bolts on each side of
the tracks. But one does have to wrestle with the seats
afterwards. It is a job that awaits me.
The texture and condition
of the seat vinyl is fairly good – a typical German mesh or basketweave design
of the early 1970s. However, there are some white “speckles” on the headrests
and upper portion of the seats, due to some sort of overspray that painter and
body “man” Corey left during the repaint project, of which I will speak to
later. Headrests dating back to 1965-67, were a “roll”type. Designs that followed
mimicked a D shape (which I have) or Peanut shape.
What about the seat
belts? That is as story that needs to be told, and will follow next.
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