Joined: Mon Oct 18 2010, 11:29PM
Location: Roseville, CA
Posts: 10
I've been searching for a set fo bucket seats for my car that have headrests. My dad says that even if one of the seats from, say, a '66 300 had a headrest, you can bet on the fact that the other seat will have the hardware for a headrest underneath the seat cover. Is he right? or should I just keep looking?
Just make your own,I wanted head rests in my car with transplanted 67 charger buckets/without headrests then went to the salvage yard and bought a set of seat backs with nich rests and cut out the top of each frame and welded them to mine and then upholsterd them and they were perfect.
Joined: Sat Aug 19 2006, 05:03PM
Location: Ontario, Canada
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I doubt there's any difference in the shock absorber requirements between a C-body with a smallblock and one with a bigblock. At least I've never heard of such a thing. Shocks can have different damping characteristics to change the dynamic ride characteristics of the car, but if you want to reduce body roll due to a heavier engine, you need to increase the spring rate and/or add an anti-sway bar. I think all factory bigblock C's got anti-sway bars, so that's something you might want to consider adding if yours doesn't have one.
Rules in California may be different, but it's uncommon for people to be required to retrofit cars with safety equipment that was not required when it was manufactured. It might be a different story if you imported your car from out of state though.
In 1966, seatbelts, passenger-side rearview mirror, backup lights, day/night mirror, and 4-way flashers were all optional, not standard equipment. Some states had stricter requirements. I know that NY required 4-way flashers by law, so all new cars ordered there had to have that option ordered. I don't know how that applied to used cars sold into NY though.
It's been a long time since I've been inside of my drivers seat, but I think the biggest difference between having headrests and not would be the chrome brackets/standoffs with the holes in them for the headrest pins to slide into. These attach to the outside of the seat. You're unlikely to find those separate from the seats that they came with.
As I said before, the headrests on 66 buckets aren't effective for preventing whiplash, unless perhaps you're under 5 feet tall. They're too low and too far back. If you want headrests for decorative purposes ok, but if you want them for safety, consider retrofitting the larger headrests or high-back bucket seats from a newer Mopar.
Joined: Tue Jan 16 2007, 07:35PM
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Unless they changed it. In California you only need the drivers side mirror unless the interior mirror is removed or obstructed. I do like to have both though.
Joined: Sat Oct 23 2010, 07:39PM
Location: ottawa.ontario.canada
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i do have high back bucket seats in my 68 fury 3. i know they arent suppose to be in there..i prefer much more the original seats.if theere would be a way to get them to you i would love to help.but i think shipping would kill us both.
Joined: Mon Oct 18 2010, 11:29PM
Location: Roseville, CA
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moparmnk wrote ... just wondering what disk Brakes you were using, I haven't made up my mind what kit I'm using so any info would be great, thanks
We got Spindles, Knuckles, Back plates, Booster, master cylinder, etc. off of a '73 Polara. That model of car is the only one that had brakes compatible with my fury.
Actually back in the days of running stock in NHRA in my 71' 340 Duster,you had to come up with some ways of shall we say "tweaking the rules". You had to run the same amount of springs in the leafs (clamped at front and no clamps in rear,pinion snubber,etc.). But what would happen at launch was that the leafs would wind up and the A body shocks would extend to the max and you would lose traction and your 60 foot times would be all over the place. So a trick was to use the Imperial shock which extended another 3-4 inches and no more problems.This was low tech as NO aftermarket shocks were allowed at the time. As far as the front,no tricks there,just put on some 100,000 mile totaly worn out shock to lift and plant the tire.After a bunch of crashes they finally let you run the so called 50/50 shocks.
Joined: Mon Oct 18 2010, 11:29PM
Location: Roseville, CA
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another question. I think i might have found the perfect front bench. It fits my specs and my dads specs for what we want in a seat. the only problem is: It's a 69 Fury which is the next generation of bodies after mine. do any of you know if the bolt pattern for the seats will be consistent with the pattern on my 66?