[DeTomaso] Seat Slides

[jderyke at aol.com]

I rebuilt a Pantera for someone awhile back- one of the 52 desperately needed reworks was to remount the Hall Pantera shoulder harness bar. This is a 3/8 steel bar that mounts to the original shoulder harness bolts behind your neck. Odd zinc-plated bolt heads holding the bar, so I touched one-- and it unscrewed with my fingers. It was a grade-3 lag-bolt used with expandable lead anchors to hold machinery to concrete floors! Apparently whoever botched this didn't realize the stock metric threads are very deep-set. Digging the lead anchors out of the holes and cold-bending the big bar to fit this particular car, the threads were fine and two stock bolts held torque. And in this car, the aftermarket seats were only held in with the front bolts.  Test-driving someone else's modified car is always an eye-opener!  Talk about 'unsafe at any speed'....


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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Stephen wrote:

Bit of humor this am - attached is a shot of one of the fasteners used to hold the front of the seats down in 5332.  Perhaps you recognize it - a plastic panel retainer - it was shoved into one of the front bolt holes for mounting the seats.  Yup, dude used 4 of them, two on each seat.

Was an amazing ride - give it gas, and rock back till the seatback  rested against the firewall.  Let off the gas, and, well, rock back forward. He used thin strap steel to adapt the after-market seats mounting holes to the holes in the floorboard.  Made a good hinge.