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hi guys + girls...I am currently mocking up a floor in my 35.. which will eventually be a roadster ute....
can someone out there give me a description ...or even better a pic of how the bracket of the seat is attached to the floor..???


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....does it bolt to a similar mount bolted to ??? the floor or a x member beam....there was no floor in it so I'm figgering it out as I go .....thanks...dave............

That must be HOLDEN BODY only as north American fisher bodied cards mounting bracketry is nothing like that .

It involves gears meshing into a plate. It is on my 35 std coupe

mike

On my '36 Standard a bolt runs through that angle to hold the front of the seat to the pin on floor (does not move). The adjustment leaver lets the seat slide and lock into the next notch. Feet on the bottom (back of the seat) drag back and forth on metal plates (built up parts of floor).

yes it is holden bodied....sounds like you got it rite there terrill...???...any one got a pic???...or anyone got the the part???...........thanks...dave....

My friend mark taylor in Cleveland Queensland AUZZIE has a 35 chev touring holden built.

maybe mark can help you with correct info....contact him........

marktaylor3@bigpond.com

mike

As far as I am aware, the tourers, roadsters and roadster utility never had an adjustable seat. They had a timber frame bolted through the floor , with a spring frame covered with leather. The Sedan would have used an adjustable seat. My 1939 roadster has the timber frame, and pictures I have of 1939 utes still use the same bolted timber frame.

thanks jack....so all the seats would be the same in all the "open" cars...would that mean the back of the seat would be lower in height than a sedan seat ??...I am asking this as i am doing a roadster ute..I have a sedan seat seat available..but it is too high in the back + does'nt look rite...im tossing up wether to build one or get the sedan seat cut down..???
....dave...

I will have to send you a couple of tourer pictures with the timber frame showing.

thanks jack... I would appreiciate that...I keep looking at the sedan seat I've got + think it is just to good to rip apart...
it is suitable to go strait into someones car....thanks.. dave

I have a 38 roadster. The seat originally sat on a wooden frame which was not readily adjustable. It would have been fine but I obtained a rusted out sedan and put a lot of parts into the roadster including the adjustable seat runners. The roadster seat springs were hopeless but I did have the wire frame into which I placed springs from the sedan. The seats are quite different as the roadster seats tip forward however the seat back height is the same. I can understand you seeing the seat back as being high and not looking right but that's the way it is. The only thing that I wonder about is that in the roadsters the seat back tipped forward as one piece and in the slopers the seat back was split so one could access the area behind the seat. Should you use the fixed sedan seat you won't be able to readily do this.

thanks terry