Evening ladies and gentlemen. I am the owner of a soon-to-be beautiful 1966 Ford F-100. As it sits right now, it has no seat, being a partially scavenged junkyard special. When I get to the point of actually replacing the seat, what would be the easiest, nicest seat swap. I am not going back to original due to back/neck issues and the fact that the truck is to be custom. My favorite way of explaining it is 1966 on the outside, 2013 on the inside. I am wanting buckets and I plan on custom building a console to fit between. Any insights, observations, questions, comments or complaints will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

Maybe I've taken you too literally when you say you want a 2013 interior. The newer the trucks are (that you're cannibalizing from) the bigger the cabs and seat packages they have, and the harder they are to fit a '66. I say this having put a 40/20/40 seat out of a 2002 F150 into my '66, having discovered that all seats are not the same dimensions for installation, and once installed, they can wipe out a lot of interior room and there's no space for you to enjoy the recline mechanism. And the seat height will likely be higher, hurting headroom and messing up your relationship with the stock steering wheel. Having said that, I did get a fold down console with drink holders, integrated three point seat belts, and high seat backs with head rests, which is what I wanted. But . . . '66 F100 Rangers came with '66 Mustang bucket seats installed on special floor brackets which forum member Bill W reproduces, so virtually any vintage Mustang bucket seat could be used, including the high backed '69s and later. Other forum members have mixed and matched seatbacks from different year/model F100s with different seat bottoms to get high backs and folddowns. The good news is that virtually all '65 to '79 (I think) seats/tracks will directly bolt in to the '66, but some will be a bit too wide and may impact your ability to use the stock door arm rest. And the '66 seat tracks can be mounted to F100/F150 seats up into the early '90s without much difficulty (I'm told). So there's lots of possibilities out there for ya. Good luck with your project!

 

SuperSabre - lets see pics of your interior...please...

 

If you have factory seat rails fo the factory bench seat a seat from any truck up till 96 or 97 will fit fairly easily. you just have to swat the rails on the new seat for those from the factory seat. I have a 96 bench in my truck right now, it fits very well and is much more comfortable than the factory bench. You can get the 90s bench seats with arm rests and other goodies if you look around.

You want bucket seats tho, the only way i know of the get buckets easily would be to get a set of ranger brackets from Bill W if he still has them and then you can put in some mustang bucket seats but you would be limited to 60s and maybe 70s seats

 

SuperSabre, you are taking me waaay too literally. Sorry, I should have rephrased, I want it comfort and luxury on the inside while kinda stock-ish outside. Truck will be sunset orange outside w/ the cowls painted sunset orange with electric blue pearl in the paint, and debadged. The inside will be bucket seats with a custom console. Radio opening, ashtray and glove compartment are shaved. It will have a double din radio with Sat radio, navigation and rear camera mounted in the console.
Davewave, I have nothing that has anything to do with the seats. All I have is the floor that they bolt to. The truck was a junkyard special and, apparently, the seats were scavenged at some point.

 

here is what the mustang bucket seats look like for the 65-66 trucks

 

God, they are so ugly

 

Lol.... Fox Body mustang seats will fit the brackets and the low back seats that Speedway Motors . com sells will fit also, not much room for high back seats.

 

So, I could find the bracket from a donor F100 (my local pick and pull currently has a 72) and snag the seat from a fox body Mustang and they should be pretty much plug and play?

 

no you will need to get ranger brackets (bill is the only source i know of)

 

Oh, gotcha.

 

if the truck at the scrap yard is a ranger then it should have the rails. rails for bench seats are body style specific as far as i know and i would imagine buckets are as well

 

there is another guy who makes the brackets.. or you could get lucky, one member found seat brackets and seats for under 50 bucks! what luck!