Forget the Nash Metro. It had a bench seat!
Kent
1960 Bugeye (Had a 57 Metro conv.)
----- Original Message -----
From <Ajhsys at aol.com>
To: <bugeye15@hotmail.com>
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Midget Seats
> I would think that Miata seats will fit in a Bugeye. In fact, there is
> probably more width. I don't know this for a fact, but as the cars got
> newer, they usually gained thicker doors because of prettier door panels,
and
> more insulation under the carpet, etc.
>
> Measure the interior of your car and take a measuring stick to the
boneyard.
> There may be other small cars with seats to fit. (Yugo, Simca, Renault,
> Borgward, Fiat, Morris, Nash Metro, etc.) You just have to be creative
with
> the seat rails. Worst case is you mount a sheet of 3/4" plywood to the
> bottom of the new seat and use the rails from your old seats.
>
> As they say, "Replacing seats is easy. Reading Klingon, now that's
> difficult."
>
> Allen Hefner
> SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
> '77 Midget
> '92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
>
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> In a message dated 3/1/01 2:24:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> bugeye15@hotmail.com writes:
>
>
>
> > Since you have a later model Midget, you wouldn't know if they would fit
in
> > a Bugeye do you? I need totally new seats for mine since the shells are
> > shot. I am trying to figure out my options, since it seems to be about
$750
> > to buy all the pieces from one of the usual vendors to make new ones.
> > Eventually I may put authentic Bugeye seats in it, but driving it is a
> > higher priority now.
> >
> > Brian
> > Bugeye in Resto
> >
> > >Find a boneyard that has a few Miatas. The Miata seats fit right in a
> > >Midget, with minor modification to the mounting holes.
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