Jim,
I've put tan leather seats from a 2000 miata in my 6 - no headrest
speakers were available after '97 or '98 (I think), but the deal was too
good to pass up. Installing them wasn't hard - I made a set of adapter
plates from steel bar stock (either 3/16x2 or 1/4x2 - I don't really
remember) to mate the stock TR6 floor holes to the miata slides. There
are a couple of pieces that need to be removed from the slides - a
locating dowel and a seatbelt mount, and I seem to remember bending a
flange so it would sit flat. Other than that it's a bolt-in job. You
do end up sitting just a little higher than with the TR6 seats, but that
may be partially due to the original seats sagging a bit - I'm not sure.
The seats are very comfortable, and more adjustable than the originals
(at least for '69 - no adjustable back), and fit nicely style-wise.
One of these days I'm going to see if they'll fit the TR8...
John Dombey
'69 TR6
'81 TR8
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> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:30:57 -0500
> From: <jfarris@troy.edu>
> Subject: Miata Seats in a TR6
> Listers,
> After looking through the archive, I almost hate to bring
> this up. My son's 73 needs a seat rebuild/rejuvination
> pretty bad. As he wants to change the color from black to
> dark tan it is going to be an expensive and time consuming
> project.
> We're friends with an owner of a stripping yard that can
> provide some inexpensively. What are the problems and
> pitfalls? Anyone got any pictures or details on the web?
> TIA,
> Jim Farris
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