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rumplestilskin
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 Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: looking to fit some better seats in my ghia |
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| i have seen bugs with seats from newer vw,s and i like the looks and fit. but i have seen nothing for ghias. can someone point me in the right direction? the origional seats in my ghia are in bad shape , so i am looking to add some daily driver comforts to my ride |
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Banzai KG
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grelland
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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I will be using Recaro seats from a Golf I GTI, and will use OG seat rails, in order to be able to reuse original seats. Sory no pictures yet  |
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ghiasforever
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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theres a good feature in the 356registry magazine this month, the guy wanted more comfortable seats for his 356 but also in keeping with the style so hes bought some porsche 914 seats, hacksaw the headrest off(its only fibreglass) and reupholstered the outer in leather and the inner in tweed, they look very nice and quite similar to speedster seats, they are low slung aswell, worth a look.
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CarreraRS2.7
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The Scat Procar series seats are nice.
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RMCLARKSON
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:22 am Post subject: |
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I had procar seats in my first but in the late 80s and loved them. I am currently in the same delema. I have the low backs in my 74 ghia. I tried to stay stock and swap some guy for his high backs but the rails were differnt. I have alot of custom work done by sewfineproducts and they have a seat combo for about $1k that just slide right in.
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turtleturtle
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: |
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I had some civic seats in my ghia, but replaced them with some racing seats. I still have the honda seats and will put them back in soon, for comfort.
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iowegian 
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| turtleturtle wrote: |
| I had some civic seats in my ghia, but replaced them with some racing seats. I still have the honda seats and will put them back in soon, for comfort. |
Honda Accord seats bolted into my '61 Ghia requiring only some simple home-made brackets on the front mounts.
The original Ghia tracks are still there if I ever wanted to put the old seats
back in. |
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turtleturtle
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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| turtleturtle wrote: |
| I had some civic seats in my ghia, but replaced them with some racing seats. I still have the honda seats and will put them back in soon, for comfort. |
Honda Accord seats bolted into my '61 Ghia requiring only some simple home-made brackets on the front mounts.
The original Ghia tracks are still there if I ever wanted to put the old seats
back in. |
Same here, made some new front mounts also. 
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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As rome posted in one of the threads Banzai linked to The BMW seats are the way to go.
If you find the right car, the seats come in black or tan leather. Adjust every which way, and are made by recaro... do it.
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Rome
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Yesss! The (E30) 325is or any convertible sport seats are also HEIGHT adjustable. But I won't tell you how; its easy, but let you figure it out. 
GTi seats would also look good, with their "German" appearance, but will take some hacking and fabbing to match them up to the Ghia's rails. Might end up being too tall.
914 seats look very good and slim, but have no hinged backrest for getting to the rear seat/luggage area. You need to fabricate a sturdy hinge mechanism. Seems like alot of work compared to drilling 4 bolts per seat for the BMW's sport seat rails. |
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rumplestilskin
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i like the looks of the firebird seats. but i also like the idea of the easy to clean leather and the adjustabality of the bmw seats. ugh i dont know what to do.
i do plan on doing the interior in gray and black. so i guess either would work. but black seats get hot |
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turtleturtle
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| rumplestilskin wrote: |
i like the looks of the firebird seats. but i also like the idea of the easy to clean leather and the adjustabality of the bmw seats. ugh i dont know what to do.
i do plan on doing the interior in gray and black. so i guess either would work. but black seats get hot |
Yeah, black leather gets really hot. Get grey leather seats
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werka
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werka
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| I probably can't comment on the car much as I have a kit car also (Manx SR), but the seats are a different story. |
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thom
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:21 am Post subject: |
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Best seats for a ghia, IMHO
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werka
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:08 am Post subject: |
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Those seats are just ok. They would look great with fuzzy white shag pillows on them...
Honestly Thom, you have one of the nicest ghias I have ever seen. |
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Ozzie
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I just put in a Corbeau Legacy. Got it from AirCooled.Net along with the mounting track. It fit in the car like a glove & looks good too. The only reason I got it was for the side support necessary in my autocrossing. The problem, it's too comfortable. I was planning on using it only on race days, but it feels sooooo good. I just covered my stock seats in tan to match the new door panels. Now I've got this black racing chair in the middle of my tan project.
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rotdog
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject: looking to fit some better seats in my ghia |
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Aloha from Hawaii, Mike here with a picture of my 68 Ghia seats modified 68 bottoms and 67 low backs. Sewfine interior red, black piping, gray tweed inserts, EXCELLENT!!! Did it all my self...for the first time. You can modify stock seats to become incredible pieces of art. Aloha Mike Roth "AKA Rotdog"
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