[DeTomaso] GT5 Seat

Sat Feb 20 17:56:20 EST 2010

Are you not interested in the Nc seats?   Mine are great and offer both
great support and lightweight.   Gary Herrig can provide a pair cheaper than
one Recaro,  if you are tall or like me have a long torso (6 ft tall with
30" inseam), you simply remove the springs and gain enough head room for a
helmet. Michael Shortt

On Feb 20, 2010 5:34 PM, "Charles Engles" <cengles at cox.net> wrote:

Dear Erik,

        I did something like that twenty years ago.  My Pantera then had
about 5000 miles on it and I wanted to keep it stock (gad, what a long, long
time ago that was....).   I didn't fit the stock seats well.   I obtained a
well used seat from Pantera Performance Center and took it to a local fellow
with a good reputation for custom seat upholstery.  Apparently he had a
respectable resume in upholstering airplane seats for private planes.   I
told him what I wanted and  he proceeded to strip it to the bare frame and
begin from there by building in some lumbar support and a few other subtle
tweaks (remember the goal was to keep it looking stock even though it was
not).   I specified a much thinner, high density seat foam for a thinner
seat to provide more headroom.   The finished seat was excellent and fit me
much better than a stock seat.  The cost  twenty years ago was comparable to
buying a new standard Recaro seat........ FWIW.

                    Warmest regards, Chuck Engles

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I am considering having new seats built from scratch.

I am definitely NOT going to destroy the pe...
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