[DeTomaso] Does the Parking Brake Lever Housing Often Interfere with After Market Seats? what to do?

Art Stephens artstephens at charter.net
Tue Jul 29 15:05:34 EDT 2008


     Nice job on the E brake handle!

Art



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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Does the Parking Brake Lever Housing Often Interfere 
with After Market Seats? what to do?


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> I ran into the same problem with my '72. Jaime and I cut out the metal box 
> around the e-brake lever. Made our own bracket for the e-brake lever, made 
> a new cover for the bracket, and made a shift boot for the e-brake lever. 
> Seats fit good now.
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> A pic here:
> http://augerresources.com/ashtonsgarage/pantera/01_12_08.jpg
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> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> To: kenn_green at yahoo.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Sent: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 9:28 pm
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Does the Parking Brake Lever Housing Often 
> Interfere with After Market Seats? what to do?
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> In a message dated 7/27/08 18 31 49, kenn_green at yahoo.com writes:
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>> I bought a nice pair of seats, but the housing for the parking brake 
>> lever
>> interferes with the passenger seat.? It looks like the housing is a lot 
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>> than necessary, has anyone worked out a mod to narrow it?? Or to put the
>> lever in the console?
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> Need more information.   What kind of car do you have?
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> The two-pod dash interior has a parking brake cover that is a piece of
> sheetmetal covered in naugahyde.   The one-pod dash interior uses a molded 
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> plastic piece, which has a kick-out making it quite a bit wider than it 
> needs to
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> Which kind do you have?   I know that the early style will fit with a 
> later
> console, because that's what I have done in my car to make room for my 
> Recaro
> seats.
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> Mike
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