I hadn't seen or heard this mentioned before, so I thought it might be worthy of it's own thread. Found this for sale and am wondering if it's the way the factory put bucket seats in the F150 or is this after-market? Any insight appreciated...

 

Thats what is bolted to the floor of my 97 f250 hd.
It's got the 40/20/40 seats up front.

 

Got it. So the smart thing to do would be to grab this at the junkyard along with the 40/20/40 seat. I imagine in most cases it would come along for "free". Even if you decided later that you wanted real bucket seats, perhaps from an entirely different vehicle, I'd have to figure that having this adapter would make things much easier.

 

They are obsolete anymore, so i would grab it

 

That only works in a regular cab, or crew cab.. The extended cab has a different set of tracks, the passenger seat had to slide way forward to allow access to the back seat.

 

Correct, but you can still bolt seats from an supercab to it(they just sit a lil high)