I know some of you guys like the Ranger seats in your truck, but I was looking for something a little different.

The adventure for today was to score some old Bostrom Viking T-bar seats. Not sure how many of you have ever run across these before but I had some feelers out and was able to locate some yesterday and reeled them in today. They were an option in 1964/1972 F-N-NT-T100/1100 models.

Here's the illustration from the manual showing what I was looking for.



Here's the old dump truck they were found in



Here they are in the old truck.



And now in my garage. These seats weigh a ton and are super comfortable. My buddy drove the dump truck several miles today and couldn't believe how smooth the seats made the ride feel.









Serial numbers are sequential, too!!





I believe I can still get foams and vinyls for these. I'll be looking into that soon. Might make a great idea for Christmas...

And a video of the truck going down the road. I hit 40 mph on one downhill run!!

http://youtu.be/p4VsKSVeTck


It's a little hard to see in the video, but there's weeds and crud falling off the truck. We were legal to be using the shoulder during daylight hours, but the truck had a VERY expired license and no working lights so glad we didn't get pulled over.