Hi Neil,
I don't know if the seatback measures the same, but the early to mid 70's cars also had the moulded-in high headrest. So it would look very different. These seats also have no provision to recline (which can be a problem). The button itself (if memory serves me) is actually mounted through the vertical metal rail the makes up the seat back, then through a small hole moulded in the plastic seatback. On the outboard side of course (ie. on the left on the driver's side, right on the passenger's). Even though both side rails have the mounting provisions. The late 60's seats with the chrome lever-type knob does something similar, but it comes from the bottom of the rail. There can be/cannot be a headrest on certain cars/set-ups. So you may be able to find something that would work, but keep in mind any B-body of that period (1986-1970) will command top dollar for parts. They are extremely popular at the moment.
The whole reason I thought of it was that it should be simple to modify the rail in the seat to accept the pushbutton assy, and then you would only need to cut a small square in the actual seatback. As opposed to the lever were you would still need to modify the rail, but then slit the back.
I know from experience that the chrome lever-style knobs on those cars are made of 'unobtainium', a substance we are ALL familiar with. Whereas the cheap black or chrome button is plentiful.
I am not 100% but I think they used the same set-up in the A-bodies as well, which would make them virtually dirt cheap (or even free!) as A-bodies are everywhere in bone yards.
Anyway,
Thanks for the feedback,
Charles.
From: esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx (eastern sierra Adj Services)
Date: 2005/06/10 Fri PM 12:06:41 EDT
To: cpollock@xxxxxxxx, L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Sittin in a rocking CHAIR.....
Hi Charles, & Mike, List, I don't know about the return-springs, that
Mike describes, but, I'm interested in installing a simple seat locking
mechanism.
I'm well aware of the 70's push-button seat release, but, in addition to
the locking-mechanism, there needs to be installed that push-button,
that also, undoubtably, needs some sort of
mounting-support-reinforcement to be built into the seat back.
If the seat frame(s) will interchange with our cars (anybody know if
2-dr B-Bodys = Our-Cars?) a simple seat-swap would 'work-out fine, but I
doubt that ANYTHING I can think up is ever easy, or cheap.
I still like the mindboggling simplicity of the late-60's seat locking
system, for our cars.
The seat-back push-button seat-release system was undoubtably designed
to make exit/entry "easier", but our cars are so arduous, and you gotta
bend-down anyway, you might as well release the seat, while you're
'down' there.
Neil
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