Ok so I'm new to the D-50 game I've only had my truck for about 5 months now and I've turned my attention to my terrible looking bench seat. I need to know what i will need to get some bucket seats in my truck they can be from another vehicle I just need to know what seats from other vehicles can fit in my truck and what rails I will need.
Guys have used seats from full size Ram trucks, Lancers, recently a fully adjustable rear bench from a Range Rover - just about anything can be made to fit them (I used seats from a Peugeot 306xsi...) It will require making support rails to adapt your choice of seating but due to the floor pan being relatively flat this isn't a big deal. It will be advantageous to either be able to weld or know someone that can do it for you once you've designed the supports and cut the pieces up to fit. Square tube steel and thick flat stock should be enough. Seats from a Montero would be close and my bet it would only take redrilling the mounting holes in the seat base and adapting Mighty Max factory sliders to get them to go in.
Just saw a post confirming that seats like this from a '85-93 Mazda B-series are a direct bolt-in swap:
In fact, those vinyl shoulders remind me of the Montero/Raider seats, wonder if they could be from the very same supplier?
1987 Dodge Ram 50 4G54 RWD longbed ("Elmo")
1979 Lancia Beta Zagato spider ("Lola")
1982 Lancia Beta Zagato spider ("Luigi")
Hmm, nice find SubG
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