woodsdesign

Guys,
Has anyone done a seat swap in their C1? I am working on a 62. The customer has complained that the seats are uncomfortable, especially on a long drive. He would like to bag and tag his original seats and install something more comfortable. Any suggestions, pics are welcome.

vintagecorvette

Al Knoch made these for my 1957. They are made leather and very comfortable as well as made to look stock.

oWEN

cbernhardt

C4 seats are very comfortable and offer lots of side support. If you rework the C4 mounts you can use the original body mounting holes.
Here is a picture of one with headrest going into my '59.


Without headrests in my wife's '62

Frankie the Fink

Wow - that last pic is a sweet car. Right down to the custom shifter console...and I'm not even a big restomod fan..

Kerrmudgeon

Nicest custom interior I've seen, and I love the color!
I hate tall seats in roadsters.

Steve59

WOW......nice interior.....some one's got WAAAAAAAYYYYYY too much time on their hands.....

hedgehead

Very nice. The carpet is amazing.

cbernhardt

Thanks for the compliments. The best thing about the carpets is that they came from Home Depot, $39.95 for a 6' x 9' piece. My wife cut them out and added the edging.
Charles

Frankie the Fink

Is that a Richmond 6-speed in there ??

toms silver 60

[QUOTE=cbernhardt;1579405152]C4 seats are very comfortable and offer lots of side support. If you rework the C4 mounts you can use the original body mounting holes.
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Did you gain/lose any head/leg room with the C4 seats? Looks very nice!

cbernhardt

The transmission is a T-56 from a '94 Camaro.

Probably gained a little head and leg room, perhaps 1" each way. I didn't really measure before and after since I'm only 5'-9" and I had plenty of room with the stock seats.

Another nice feature of the C4 seats that I retained is the seat back tilt. My wife likes driving with the hardtop on, especially on long trips, so we leave it on all the time. We removed the soft top completely so now we can tilt the seat backs forward and access the area under the soft top cover for extra storage.

Charles

toms silver 60

Very nice, plus extra room. Wonder if it would help the tall/"stocky" drivers.
I'd forgotten about the extra room in the top well. When the 60 was my only driver, I used to carry my long guns back there on permanent moves.

63 grandsport

al knock custom seat are the best,will take stock seats on trade talk to dale

Audiophobe

Also they(Dale) will modify stock C1 seats to give about an extra 2" height and depth.

woodsdesign

Thanks for the pic. Did you remove the headrest because the seat would not fit under the deck lid or just for the look. I really like the way they look in the car.

cbernhardt

The headrests were removed so that the seat back would fit under the soft top cover. Actually the C4 seat back tapers as it rises, so I widened the seat back some so that it would fill the hole better. In the picture below the black part is the C4 plastic seat back. The lighter colored part is aluminum.