Hello, all! Your thoughts, please. Car is a 73 Plymouth Custom Suburban. Please, refer to the attached pictures. I replaced the high-backed bench seat with a pair of bucket seats out of a 300. I now have a bench seat sitting around the garage. A friend suggested I install the old front seat in the rear, replacing the original rear seat with the folding seat-back. Fabricating the bracket for the bench seat install is not that big a deal and careful measurements tell me it should fit in place of the original rear seat. Question, is this something you all might do, or should I leave the rear seat alone? My sons tell me to leave it alone, but I wanted some Drydock comments. Thanks very much!
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Hello, all! Your thoughts, please. Car is a 73 Plymouth Custom Suburban. Please, refer to the attached pictures. I replaced the high-backed bench seat with a pair of bucket seats out of a 300. I now have a bench seat sitting around the garage. A friend suggested I install the old front seat in the rear, replacing the original rear seat with the folding seat-back. Fabricating the bracket for the bench seat install is not that big a deal and careful measurements tell me it should fit in place of the original rear seat. Question, is this something you all might do, or should I leave the rear seat alone? My sons tell me to leave it alone, but I wanted some Drydock comments. Thanks very much!
I would say that as long as you keep the original rear seat and the changes to install the new seat in the rear are reversible then go for it.
It is nothing that cannot be undone and you might change the seat out and love or hate it. It would certainly be unusual.