[DeTomaso] corvette seats

Dave Londry davel at emspace.com
Thu Jul 16 22:14:26 EDT 2009


NW chapter has a specialist at C4 seats for Panteras.
He just delivered mine too.
Gary Herrig.
glherrig at yahoo.com

dickruzzindesign wrote:
> Sue,
> Before buying any seats I would carefully measure them.  The C-5 and C-6 seats have a lot of comfort and electronic options that make them very thick compared to older cars. They sit up on stansions also, these could be shortened.
>
> The key measurement when replacing one seat with another is the "H-Point" to the floor of the vehicle.  H-Point is a theoretical dimension that is aligned with your hip joints.  It is very hard to measure this point in a vehicle without the engineering manican that is used to set up interior vehicle spaces.  You could measure the floor to ceiling in your Pantera and then do the same with the vehicle that has the seats that you want to use to get close.  Another way is to use SAE dimensions for the Pantera and other vehicles.
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> A kind of crude but adequate way, without any available data would be to sit in your Pantera, put a yardstick across your lap at the point where tour legs bend at the hip , level it with a small level and then have someone else measure the distance from the bottom most point on the yardstick to the floor of the vehicle.  Leave the carpeting in tact.
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> Do that also on the car that has the seats that you want and compare the dimensions.  If the seat is higher and you can shorten the stansions enough to bring the new seat height and your Pantera seat height into sync then you have a start.  
> I do not have a Pantera but I imagine that the seats are very close to the floor.  Seats can be lowered but cushion thickness is a problem. 
>
> The next issue is the width, again compare your Pantera seat dimensions to the vehicle seats you want to use.  
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> All the best, Dick Ruzzin.
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