Charlie,
If you go to buckets and console you will have to buy the brackets for both
the buckets and the console. There will be no opening in the new floor you'll
just have to cut a hole then weld in the insert that you need once you decide.
So if you go buckets you'll need to buy brackets and shifter hump. I you stay
bench you can take everything from your old floors and weld it to the new
floors. Buckets for a 69-72 Chevelle and BOP will work.
Trooper
----- Original Message -----
From: Charlie K
To: The Chevelle Mailing List
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:03 PM
Subject: [Chevelle-list] Some feedback on the 70 seats and the tank
I already have a console,maybe I'll put buckets in,I suppose 70-72 will
work.I have 4 spd,but a new full floor pan is going in so I can change the
opening from square to oblong,correct if wrong.maybe better resale with
buckets,I wonder how mounting will work on the new floor with bench or buckets,
and what is the best Vender to get the floor..Car came with bench,ss dash,not
restoring to "original"I gave the short block away 28 years ago to core
charge.Body shop wants me to make it an SS.I want something like Foose would
make,no stripes!SS means big block doesn't it?I have only a few hundred miles
on this engine(350) and trans.I have important questions now on what to do.I
decided this car will not be a show car,I'm not sitting with the hood open for
a trophy all day.The body is coming off the frame,but I'll sandblast and paint
the frame and make everything new but I'm not going to be fussy.I'm saving time
and money on the interior and paint.If I send the car to the shop and let them
blast and paint($500 just to blast the frame)and all the parts that bolt on are
$15-$30@ piece,Me and my friend can paint it(frame black from Eastwood
supply)and blast it,not in that order,and maybe even the body.He is a retired
Ford plant worker from Edison,NJ.
I would like to thank Rick Schaefer,Trooper,Tom
Rightler,and Dan Soloman for your help with my gas tank and bench seat
questions.Dan, I ordered your DVD's.I'm getting more help here than in my
club,Garden State Chevelles,and I go to the meetings.If you have any comments
or disagreements with the above plans,respond.
Charlie
K
