Tony,
If the Morgan reflector states that I own a flat rad 4-seater, the reflector
is wrong. I've only got a two-seater. The "seats" in my car are about as
rudimentary as they come. The back rest is one piece with thin plywood on
the back (and two round finger holes or ventilation holes) and some sort of
leatherette material on the front. The back is stuffed with what appears to
be a coarse fibrous material. The seats themselves consist of
plywood-and-wood units, with the piece of wood in the rear being very thin,
and the one in front bigger, so that the plywood forms a wedge. There is a
steel rod that keeps the unit from collapsing from the weight of the driver
or passenger. The plywood-wood units are held in place by the cross members
of the chassis. The seat cushions are square and there is no indication
that they were ever meant to be inflated. I haven't opened them up to see
what's inside.
Sorry, that's the best I can do. I'm copying this to the Morgan network in
the hope that somebody else can help you.
Did you buy a new chassis? If so, who supplied it and at, roughly, what
cost? Does your chassis have the back of the rear springs slide through a
slot in the round rear cross member?
Chuck Vandergraaf
'52 +4, P.2473/V.345.ME
'85 Chrysler LeBaron Turbo
'86 MR2
Pinawa, Manitoba, R0E 1L0
Canada
vandergraaft@aecl.ca
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> From: tjsouz@epix.net[SMTP:tjsouz@epix.net]
> Sent: April 21, 1998 9:46 AM
> To: Vandergraaf, Chuck
> Subject: front seats
>
> Hi Chuck,
> I gather from the Morgan reflector that you own a flat rad 4 seater. I
> am currently restoring a '52 4 seater which came to me as a bunch of
> parts that should have gone to the trash bin! Anyway, I'm close to a
> rolling chassis at present and starting to think ahead to when the new
> body comes from The Factory. How do the front seats fasten to the
> floor? There were two steel bars bolted to the second cross member on
> the original chassis. On later four seaters I've seen bars bolted to
> the floor behind the cross member. I have the grooved wooden pieces
> that the seat rails sit in. I assume that after some adjustment fore
> and aft you then clamp down on the bars. Where relative to the cross
> member are your seats located?
>
> Regards, Tony Souza
>
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