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      Don Shillady




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      Registered: May 2004
      Location: Ashland
      Posts: 2,160
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      Once the rolling body was back in my garage I started work on a Carvan seat I got from a wrecking yard for $15. That yard had about ten suitable seats but this one is really nice and I had pictures on the Forum from C9x on how to adapt a Caravan seat to a Model A roadster. However his is a '30 and wider than my '29 so I had to take off the side arms. The side arms are shown here but they intrude into the quarter panel space for the side panel. In addition I found that if I cut off the legs but did not mess with the seat belt mounts I could get the right height for a '29 and keep the stock retractable seat belts. I had to make an angle iron framework underneath the seat after I cut off the legs and I will show the bottom of the seat in another picture later. but basically this picture shows wood blocks used to mock up the seat. Bob Parmenter said the seat was too high but after the tack rail wood was added the height is just riight and about 1/2" below the top of the tack rail wood. The cockpit is tight however and I had to move the seat back until it just touches the tack rail. I notice that many rods have the tack rail covered but I put two coats of spar varnish on the oak anyway. The oak rail is from Brookville and other small trim parts are from Bratton's Antique Auto Parts in Bethesda Md. At present two grade-8 steel bolts go through short angle iron brackets on the edge of the seat right through the frame rails.
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