Good job on the seats (and good choice on the Fiat)! The MkIV came with
the fixed head rest. Happy motoring!
Andy
1971 MKIV
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:22:27 -0700 Reed Mideke <rmideke@interbase.com>
writes:
>Good day fellow spitters,
> Finally got my new used seats bolted down in the dark last
>night.
>A particularly severe case of shipwrights found me power wire
>brushing the rust off the floor at about 6pm, but then sanity set in
>and I realized I needed at least one seat to get to work in the
>morning,
>so I put off painting the floor till next weekend. There's some
>pitting,
>but fortunately nothing that comes close to going through.
> The story of how I found these seats is sort of funny. I was
>out
>getting coffee, and when I came back to my car there was a note
>under the wiper 'Are you interested in trading your spitfire for a
>Fiat
>X/9 ?' Now I've never been particularly fond of "Fix it again Tony",
>but I called the guy up anyway. We ended up driving each others cars
>around the block, and both deciding we didn't really want to trade
>(He wanted a car that hadn't been bastardized with a jap drive train,
>and quite frankly, I think the X/9 is ugly, and thought the italian
>tranny
>was kind of funky.) Anyway he had a number of spits in the past and
>had
>gotten rid of all his spit parts except for a couple of seats. One of
>these was in his living room in front of a sega console with a custom
>wheel and pedals. If you like to play the brain rot games (as I do)
>this is the way ;-). He offered me the pair (of seats) for 60 bucks,
>and
>shortly after that I was the owner of the only 4 seater spit in town.
> If anyone out there has a daily drivable spit in the norcal
>area
>that you might want to trade for a decent X/9, I'd be happy to hook
>you
>up.
> I also have two adjustable headrest style seats in poor
>condition which I would sell cheap or better yet, trade for other
>bits.
>The frames are good, the rails are rusted but possibly usable. The
>foams
>have mostly disintegrated, and the vinyl (light brown) has come
>undone at some of the corners. Cushions are in a similar state.
>I can't imagine it being worth it to ship these things anywhere,
>but if someone in range of the Santa Cruz, CA area wants 'em, drop me
>a line.
>
> Trivia: the new seats are black with fixed head rests. Anyone
>know what era spit they're from ? (The only pictures I saw in VB
>were either adjustable or no head rest at all) Other than the head
>rest and condition, they're similar to my old brown ones, with
>a lever to recline, another to flip the whole seat forward, and
>sliding rails on the bottom.
>
>
> ,---/._,=-.
><(o)-`--(o)'
>
>--
>Reed Mideke
>rmideke@interbase.com
>
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