- 1. Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:41:58 +0930
- I have a '76 MG B. I'm 6' tall. This means that I look straight through the top frame of the windscreen. I actually have lousy visibility in a car with no roof! I've tried reclining the seat, slouchi
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01108.html (7,915 bytes)
- 2. RE: Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Holt" <lbcholt@one.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:41:23 -0400
- I'm 6'2" and I own a '73 B and for another 17 years I owned a '76 B. I've never had a problem with visibility in either car. My line of sight is directly through the windshield. Both of my cars have
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01111.html (8,885 bytes)
- 3. Re: Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: "Ptegler" <ptegler@gouldfo.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:37:02 -0400
- Are you using the 'diaphragm's or 'lawn chair' seat bottom supports. The diaphragm seat bottom foam support will easily keep the seat sitting an inch or two higher than the 'lawn chair' straps config
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01112.html (8,604 bytes)
- 4. Re: Seat Height (score: 1)
- Author: Matthew Milkevitch <mmilkevitch@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 07:45:57 -0700 (PDT)
- Fellow Listers: I also have this problem. Ever since I redid the front seats (new upholstery, foams, diaphragms) the head room in my GT is non-existent. Even after reclining the seat somewhat and slo
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01116.html (8,332 bytes)
- 5. Re: Seat Height (score: 1)
- Author: "Ptegler" <ptegler@gouldfo.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:00:22 -0400
- I went through the same thing. When I wasn't driving the car... I put a wood board on the seat (cut to precisely fit the center square seat bottom section) I'd then place 175 lbs worth of bar-bell we
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01120.html (9,063 bytes)
- 6. Re: Seat Height (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Edmands <ple@woodedlaw.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:06:40 -0400
- Stop wearing a hat! <!:^) Peter
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01123.html (8,978 bytes)
- 7. Re: Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:53:59 +0100
- Having sat in cars with renewed foams I know just how high they can be. Whether they are denser than the original material and hence compress less or the old ones have compressed over time I don't kn
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01131.html (9,447 bytes)
- 8. Re: Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: "T. Keith Vezina" <tkvezina@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:31:40 -0500
- I had the seats in my 76 B re-covered a few years ago. Although the webbing had no tears, they looked stretched out, so I had the upholsterer replace them (he made them out of nylon webbing material)
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01149.html (9,294 bytes)
- 9. Re: Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:40:58 -0700
- I would think you could dispense with the wooden runners, as long as you don't have shag carpet which might get tangled in the slides. I have also heard of peple slicing an inch off the bottom of the
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01152.html (9,852 bytes)
- 10. Re: Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:52:00 +0930
- Hi Kids, I'm the bloke with the original question. I pulled the driver's seat out this afternoon. The seat has been rebuilt, very nicely rebuilt too, with a very wide (about 8") piece of chipboard at
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01161.html (10,135 bytes)
- 11. Re: Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:40:35 -0700
- I'm a little puzzled by this piece of chipboard... what does it do? It certainly isn't original. Why not remove it entirely? Richard Spurling had this to say: -- Max Heim '66 MGB GHN3L76149 If you're
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01182.html (8,079 bytes)
- 12. Re: Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:17:16 +0930
- The chipboard is bolted to the back of the seat frame and the webbing straps are stapled to it. As a solution, it's even more stupid than it sounds, though I can see the logic if you are a reupholst
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01184.html (8,075 bytes)
- 13. Re: Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:44:59 -0700
- Ahhhh... I see -- this upholsterer is aspiring to DPO-hood. A good start, Richard Spurling had this to say: -- Max Heim '66 MGB GHN3L76149 If you're near Mountain View, CA, it's the red one with the
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01189.html (8,368 bytes)
- 14. Re: Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: Jon <a77mgb@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 07:11:19 -0700 (PDT)
- You've just described the typical Lafayette mechanic! == 77 MGB "Christine" slowly, but surely healing 58 Willys CJ-3B, Buick 231, T90, D18, D44, D25, 33X12.5 BFG's, custom exhaust by Jenson and Aud
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01207.html (7,814 bytes)
- 15. Re: Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: Bullwinkle <yd3@nvc.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:44:31 -0700
- <<<snip>>> Probably a safety improvement to prevent the bolts from pulling out in a crash. IMO a previous owner was short in stature and very safety conscious so they rebuilt the seat to raise it an
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01214.html (7,538 bytes)
- 16. Re: Seat height (score: 1)
- Author: Eric <eric@erickson.on.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 01:46:40 +0000
- The Australian "CAMS Manual of Motor Sport" requires the following for safety harnesses (seat belts): "Floor mounting points must be reinforced with a 3mm plate of at least 75mm x 50mm on the undersi
- /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01218.html (7,644 bytes)
- 17. Seat Height (score: 1)
- Author: James Nazarian Jr <James.Nazarian@Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:33:52 -0600 (MDT)
- Is there anyone on the list right now that could measure the height from the floor to the top of the headrest on one of our seats. The one day I don't drive the car to work and I could really use tha
- /html/mgs/2000-09/msg01029.html (6,375 bytes)
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