[DeTomaso] WANTED: Pantera Seats/Corvette C5 seats

Bjoern Flesland bflesland at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 19:56:48 EDT 2012


Julian,
Thanks for info. Were the C4 seats $800 for the pair?
How much will it be to restore/recover those two Pantera seats?
Cheers Bjoern


On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Bjoern,
>
> I actually have both.... a pair of seats out of a 1973L that need
> recovering as the vinyl is torn. I offered them to someone in Europe on the
> PI forum for the cost of shipping, but he didn't take them. Scott at SACC
> Restorations has quality replacement foam and seat covers available at
> reasonable pricing. If it was shipped to my place I could box it all up and
> ship onward.
>
> http://pantera.saccrestorations.net/index3.html
>
> The Gary Herrig seats were the C4 1984-93 square style, I have no idea
> whether he is still offering those, they were something like $800, but a
> lot of that cost is the base Vette seats which fetch good money. What I
> have is the later 1994-96 style (more rounded) which personally I prefer. I
> haven't finished them, but I got a set of custom seat covers made with the
> De-Tomaso logo embroidered, they just need fitting to the seats... too many
> projects.
>
> I don't know of anyone using a C5 seat, but no reason it would not fit.
> The C5 seats don't have as much side bolster for support, so not as
> constraining as the earlier seats, which was a complaint by C5 owners as
> the driver tends to slide around more. I have seen a set of Dodge Viper
> seats in a Pantera and they looked good, albeit they were custom
> upholstered for the job.
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
>
>
>
> > From: bflesland at gmail.com
> > Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:54:21 +0200
> > To: DeTomaso at realbig.com
> > Subject: [DeTomaso] WANTED: Pantera Seats/Corvette C5 seats
> >
> > Gents,
> > I am looking for 2 good Pantera seats. Either in Europe or in the US.
> > How much should I expect to pay?
> > What about the modified Corvette C5 seats that Gary Herrig made?
> > Are they still available?
> > Cheers Bjoern
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