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    Posted: 03-March-2010 at 3:57PM
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Get this, guy commutes from Duncanville to Killeen DAILY. That's a good 150 mile haul EACH WAY. He's nuts to drive anything else except maybe an XFi Metro or an old diesel (non-turbo) VW.
about 4-5 years ago my dad had an 86 VW Jetta Diesel and it would get about 35-40 mph.He brought it down to Florida to have tranportation when he was here Capt. a yacht but later it got sold & the car stayed with me.I could drive that sucker for weeks and not add fuel.it was a manual trans also.Great econo car to have.it was always funny when I would stop for fuel and the cashier would say,"you know your on a diesel pump".I said ya,because the car is a diesel.

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Uh, yes, they are. The seat tracks.
I had to take the seats apart to get them out of the car. Originally I was going to just take the bucket seat and leave the seat track, as I thought...and THAT is the operative word here...the seat tracks were not needed. My buddy and I unbolted the seat upper off the hinge. This I unbolted the bottom cussion off the power seat track as I didn't want to mess with a power seat off the driver's side.
I had unbolted the passenger seat frame, and set it on the side of the car in the yard.
I also had been through a cougar that was from the same year and had taken a spare recliner mechanism so I have a spare incase I need it.
 
So...after going to a car wash and hot blasting the seats to clean them up, I get home.
I set the seats out to dry on the driveway, and I was like...um...missing something...grab phone, "Dude, did you grab the seat tracks?" "No, WTF would I get them, you told me to leave 'em".
DOH! {slap forehead}.
On the 80's fox body seats, they are like the older torino seats, where the seat tracks bolt to the seat frame.
On the Tbird, the tracks and hinge mount points are part of the tracks.
I went back, and the guy at the yard gave them to me luckily so I didn't have to spend more.
 
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Andy,
    tvtm8o (JOE) is the one that put the customized crown vic seats in his Starsky.
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a Big DOH! to you Andy
well atleast the guy let you have the tracks with no extra charge,thankfully

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Hey, did you end up bolting the explorer seats to the floor pan, or?
I have not found out yet on the T bird tracks to see how they fit yet. May have to just break out the welder and add some metal.
Would like to be able to just bolt in the stock locations.
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doubt the seats will bolt in the stock holes but the brackets on the Explorer tracks are flat & all 4 corners even as far as height so as long as the floor is the same i'll just have to drill holes but i'm gonn weld plates with nuts welded to them to give the floor strength.I guess I could yank the bench seat and just set the buckets in to see where they will sit but i'm not installing them as they are going in the GTS now that i'm gonna restore that body.don't know what the formal is gonna get,that is if I fix it it may just end up as a parts car,I don't know .I will steal the A/C and dash out of it cause I don't remember if theGTS is A/C car & in Florida it's nice to have A/C.besides all the good sheetmetal will go on the GTS cause it's getting all the best parts including the NOS stuff I bought before.

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Well, just an update.
Spent 4 hours messing around with the buckets and also back seat in the '72.
The crown vic lower fits. It is a little on the tight side, but it slid right in.
The seat back upper is a different story, thing is too wide to use. Not what I was expecting but it's a big bummer for me.
Took the front buckets down to bare seat frames, and discovered the T bird buckets I got as worse off than I thought, one of the frames has a 4" crack in the metal, foam isn't the best on the upper on the driver's side.
Oh well, this is what I get for buying junkyard buckets.
Debating on what I am going to do.
 
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That's too bad, but great that you are sharing the info.
Thanks!
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check out PROCAR seats at JEGS.com they aren't like the racing deats Summit sells.they have the foa@ and upholstery but only come in nlack grom what I see in the flyer mag they sent me.not bad prices either,heck time you waste in the junkyard looking for decent seats plus money wasted on seats that tutn out not to work or crap .It doesn't hurt to cjeck them out

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I thought about buying a set of the procars, but the seats I want, I am not in the mood to drop $600+ for a set of aftermarket buckets.
For that kind of cash, I'll go pick up a set of late model Mustang buckets.
What pisses me off, looking around on ebay, down in Florida there are a bunch of salvage yards selling seat sets for around $200-$400 for nice looking stuff.
Around here, the greedy yards seem to want $1200 for a bucket interior out of a Mustang, freaking rip.
 


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