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

[Christopher Kimball]

I guess if you're planning on selling your Pantera, you'd want to leave it mostly stock.  
 
If, however, you plan on being buried in it (as I do), I don't see any reason why it's a problem to line the interior with orange, diamond-tuck velour, paint it pink, attach bull horns to the front, glue an Ichiro boble-head doll to the dash, or even attach fans to the engine cover!!
 
Chris
#3846> To: detomaso at realbig.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:02:34 -0400> From: redvobra at aol.com> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Does the Parking Brake Lever Housing Often Interfere with After Market Seats? what to do?> > Yeah, I can't help but feel a little twinge when I do something like this, but I figure this is the one car that I get to do my way.? :)> > > -----Original Message-----> From: Chris Difani <cdifani at pacbell.net>> To: redvobra at aol.com> Sent: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 1:13 am> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Does the Parking Brake Lever Housing Often Interfere with After Market Seats? what to do?> > > That's a very, very nicely done "fix".?> ?> I also like that Griot's LED flashlight in the cigarette lighter.?> ?> Don't you just love how we all enjoy our various "fixes", whether mild to wild, simple to exotic, and everyone appreciates them. No one's shouting "No, you aren't FACTORY!!".... (Well, except for Mikey, and Chris Kimball's engine bay vent fans.... )?> ?> Chris?> ?> Chris Difani?> '73 L #5829 "LITNNG"?> The Electric Pantera?> Sacramento, CA?> Email: cdifani at pacbell.net?> ?> ?> ----- Original Message ----- From: <redvobra at aol.com>?> To: <detomaso at realbig.com>?> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:49 AM?> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Does the Parking Brake Lever Housing Often Interfere with After Market Seats? what to do??> ?> >?> > 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.?> > ??> > A pic here:?> > http://augerresources.com/ashtonsgarage/pantera/01_12_08.jpg?> >?> >?> >?> >?> >?> >?> >?> > -----Original Message-----?> > 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??> >?> >?> >?> >?> >?> >?> >?> >?> >?> >?> >?> > In a message dated 7/27/08 18 31 49, kenn_green at yahoo.com writes:?> >?> >?> >> 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 >> wider?> >> than necessary, has anyone worked out a mod to narrow it?? Or to put the?> >> lever in the console??> >>?> >?> > Need more information. What kind of car do you have??> >?> > 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 > hard?> > plastic piece, which has a kick-out making it quite a bit wider than it > needs to?> >?> > be.?> >?> > 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.?> >?> > Mike?> >?> >?> > **************?> > Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for?> > FanHouse Fantasy Football today.?> >?> > (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)?> > _______________________________________________?> >?> > Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA?> >?> > Archive Search Engine Now Available at http://www.realbig.com/detomaso/?> >?> > DeTomaso mailing list?> > DeTomaso at list.realbig.com?> > http://list.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso?> >?> >?> >?> >?> >?> > _______________________________________________?> >?> > Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA?> >?> > Archive Search Engine Now Available at http://www.realbig.com/detomaso/?> >?> > DeTomaso mailing list?> > DeTomaso at list.realbig.com?> > http://list.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso ?> > _______________________________________________> > Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA> > Archive Search Engine Now Available at http://www.realbig.com/detomaso/> > DeTomaso mailing list> DeTomaso at list.realbig.com> http://list.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso