Besides the total redesign of their mounting points, VW also changed the basic construction of the seat - they broke down within a few years' use (especially in the case of large persons sitting in them)..."horsehair" padding leaking out everywere scarecrow-like, broken springs/frames that snagged your trousers & legs...horrid design. The only `73-up stock seats that held up well were the "sports" (Recaro-like) seats used in the few limited-edition cars produced, and they go for a pretty penny at a wrecking yard lucky enough to have some. Options are to modify early (German-, not Pennsylvania-built) Rabbit seats...that takes fairly minor alterations to their rear legs, buy aftermarket seats like the Pro-Cars from Scat along with the special mounting brackets they make to adapt them to the VW floor, or to find some appropriate-width seats (perhaps from a Honda or Subaru) and fabricate your own mounting system to graft them in.
`68/`69 seats had wide headrests and narrow rails, and `71/`72 had narrow headrests and wide rails. `70 was 1-year-only with the narrow headrests and the narrow rails. ...but you CAN interchange the backrest and seat cushion parts of stock VW seats amongst `68 through `72s. --- Nicholas Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks a bunch Marc, I'm hoping the line on a '70 > comes through for > the easiest swap. > > Why are good '73-up seats rare? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
