- 1. How I spent my weekend (long & rambling) (score: 1)
- Author: Reed Mideke <rmideke@interbase.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:22:27 -0700
- Good day fellow spitters, Finally got my new used seats bolted down in the dark last night. A particularly severe case of shipwrights found me power wire brushing the rust off the floor at about 6pm,
- /html/spitfires/1998-09/msg00305.html (9,904 bytes)
- 2. Re: How I spent my weekend (long & rambling) (score: 1)
- Author: "Laura G." <savercool@msn.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:46:44 -0700
- No thanks on the seats-but, here's hoping that you'll be at TRiumphest! I know Nigel and I will! I'm even going to a judging seminar in Long Beach in two weeks, so I'll be armed with knowledge! ;-) S
- /html/spitfires/1998-09/msg00309.html (11,045 bytes)
- 3. Re: How I spent my weekend (long & rambling) (score: 1)
- Author: Atwell Haines <carbuff@tempest.nac.net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:44:47 -0400
- Perhaps they are from a GT6? I saw some installed in a Spitfire at the car show Saturday. P.S., great ASCI II art (below) but it looks like a Jeep to me! ("Not that there's anything wrong with that!"
- /html/spitfires/1998-09/msg00313.html (8,668 bytes)
- 4. Re: How I spent my weekend (long & rambling) (score: 1)
- Author: nikolai jaremka <njaremka@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 03:54:17 -0700 (PDT)
- the it's the mkIV that had fixed headrest seats (or high back buckets). my 72 mkIV has the same seats, except i think the color is chestnut(?) instead of black. nik jaremka '72 spitfire mkIV
- /html/spitfires/1998-09/msg00318.html (8,388 bytes)
- 5. Re: How I spent my weekend (long & rambling) (score: 1)
- Author: aeh53@juno.com (Andrew E. Henderson)
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:15:21 -0500
- Good job on the seats (and good choice on the Fiat)! The MkIV came with the fixed head rest. Happy motoring! Andy 1971 MKIV On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:22:27 -0700 Reed Mideke <rmideke@interbase.com> writ
- /html/spitfires/1998-09/msg00323.html (10,836 bytes)
- 6. Re: How I spent my weekend (long & rambling) (score: 1)
- Author: Chip Mautz <clmautz@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 07:27:45 -0700 (PDT)
- with Hmm - so, if the fixed backs are standard MKIV, what can I do to help the 'bar in the back of the head' problem I've got? Will putting new foam in the seat help it? Don't dog the X1/9 - it's the
- /html/spitfires/1998-09/msg00325.html (8,174 bytes)
- 7. Re: How I spent my weekend (long & rambling) (score: 1)
- Author: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:04:31 -0400 ()
- As others have pointed out, they could be from a '71 or '72 Mk.IV Spitfire, but they also could be from a '69 or '70 Mk.3. It's a slightly different style, but still has fixed headrests (U.S. cars,
- /html/spitfires/1998-09/msg00328.html (8,254 bytes)
- 8. RE: How I spent my weekend (long & rambling) (score: 1)
- Author: Tustin <tustin@xmission.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:06:36 -0600
- Trivia: the new seats are black with fixed head rests. Anyone know what era spit they're from ? (The only pictures I saw in VB were either adjustable or no head rest at all) Other than the head rest
- /html/spitfires/1998-09/msg00334.html (8,060 bytes)
- 9. Re: How I spent my weekend (long & rambling) (score: 1)
- Author: "Keith R. Stewart" <kstewart@wwdc.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:48:20 -0400
- Right you are fearless leader...If you have TRF's Spitfire mini-book, it has some good illustrations of the seats. BTW, the seat frames are also different between the Mk3 and the MkIV...as I found ou
- /html/spitfires/1998-09/msg00340.html (9,159 bytes)
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