okay...so, what type of bucket seats work the BEST? We are starting the bodywork on our 51 F! and even though we re-upholstered the bench already...we decided to go with buckets instead.

Mike
64 Falcon Futura Sports Convertible | 62 Falcon Futura Sports Sedan
48 F1 Truck | 51 F1 Truck

 

3 if you have an arm out the window on each side and the middle person shifts

 

Dave the mid 80's Rangers had a nice 60/40 split bench with a fold down armrest I was planning on running one of them .. Then I started flirting with the odyssey seat idea

 

Thing is even with the split bench seat the drivers side has to be pretty narrow in order to be centered with the steering wheel.
I have a split bench here from a mid 80s monte carlo with a fold down arm rest, probably a 60/40, but the head rest seemed too far over to the passenger side to be comfortable when sitting behind the wheel. I am going to mock it up again with no head rests, but really for me if 3 people cannot fit in the truck comfortably there is no real reason to keep the bench.
Even with the two bucket seats that I was planning on using there isnt much room between them after centering the drivers side seat with the steering column.
I will post pics when I can, dealing with over a foot of snow that fell last night into today, so it has been a day of plowing and shoveling snow. I gotta ask Ben what the temp is in Austin today!

 

A driver and a good ol' hound dog slobbering spit out the window in a four seasons

 

The two 60 lbs mutts above and my big butt works well.

 

If my grandson rides in the middle, he kicks the shifter out of gear. Second and fourth require some cooperation on leg placement. Back in '48, men were a few sizes smaller than today.

 

Hey Dave,
Today wasn't too nice - topped out around 50 degrees. But over the past week we've been in the upper 70's 3 days - hitting 81 degrees on one particularly nice day. Cedar Fever is awful - you wouldn't like it here - better to stay up there in the frozen tundra.

I like this seat from a Honda Passport used by DMack up in Oregon.

Good luck up there Dave - it must be time for another training mission to Austin!

Ben in Austin
1950 F1

 

If you're going with bucket seats, look into seats from a Dodge Caravan they're high back seats and some are power. Plus, the mid 90s to early 00s seats have a sliding storage compartment under the front passenger seat. Plus, the height is perfect, they have built in seat brackets and arm em rests on both sides. I have a pair of the seats in my 51 Panel.

 

Three narrow butts or two not so narrow...

 

The truck fits you a woman of medium size and a case of beer. Caution if you drink most the case first you may end up with a fat girl and a six pack.

 

Those work well in a panel ,but the high backs will not let you move the seat far enough back in a pickup . I have three pair and that was my plan as I wanted the storage trays under the seats. A friend had an old seat in his shop they used to sit around on . As it turned out, it was out of an old ford truck . I traded some shelving for it. I wanted the buckets but I'm 6' and had no room . Low backs might work . The bottom of the seat was the right height thou.

 

I once owned a 91 Ranger Super Cab and put six (6) adult males in it to take them home. It was an automatic.

With a bench you could put three adults in the cab of 48 F1 provided you were not adverse to sitting really close.

 

You might also look a Glide Engineering. They make a quality product which I have seen.

Link here to their 48-52 seat frames: FORD PU 1948-1952

 

I might have asked this before, but I'll ask again. Getting hit by a car a couple of years ago didn't help my memory. Is there any difference is the demensions of a bench seat of a 1949 Ford F1 and Ford F3 bench seat? Court.