1967 GTO project thread

[PBarkley]

I second (or third) the comment about Pontiac A-body's needing a lil rake to look right. Hell, even my mom said that the '66 I'm building for my dad better have it, haha!

Subscribed, BTW. The car looks awesome!

[HWYSTR]

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Keep up the good work Nick, you're an inspiration for all!

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[Nicks67GTO]

I got some 06' GTO seats from my buddy Bob {old66tiger} I installed them in the old girl today. I'm extremely happy I did this. My maiden voyage with them was fantastic. I'm honestly pissed at myself that I spent a boat load of $ trying to restore the stock seats with the Legendary Rallye setup at this point. I'm trying to decide if i'm going to sell them. I might let someone else have them at a good price instead of storing them for the next 40 years....


Anyhow the 06' GTO seats are awesome. They sit great, have 8 way power mobility and are about the same weight as stock seats based on the lower back-o-meter. Iv'e heard these sit up too high. That's why I was hesitant in the first place. Anyone that says they "sit up too high" must have been 6'9" and had stock buckets with broken springs in the lower seat before. I'm 6'1" + a touch and I sit in them great. They go back far enough that I can't reach the pedals and leave me with a solid 2" above my head which was better than anything I had before. I would say they are a touch lower than my newly stuffed stockers.


I did however reuse my 3" seat relocation brackets I made for the stock buckets. I figured it would allow me to run the seats forward to fit me correctly and hide the bracketry I made. I used a couple pieces of 1/8" x 1.5" wide x 3.25" long steel for the front. I used 3/16" x 1.5" angle iron for the rears. I shaved the rear angle iron down to 1" so it would clear the floor and give max headroom. Then its 12v on the red wire and a ground on the black. The install is pretty easy and straight forward. I'm going to make a thread detailing what is needed to get it done on PY and ill link it here is anyone is interested. If you have tools and and know what to do it's probably like a 4-5 hour job.


Well here's a few pics from the day....

[captainofiron]

I got some 06' GTO seats from my buddy Bob {old66tiger} I installed them in the old girl today. I'm extremely happy I did this. My maiden voyage with them was fantastic. I'm honestly pissed at myself that I spent a boat load of $ trying to restore the stock seats with the Legendary Rallye setup at this point. I'm trying to decide if i'm going to sell them. I might let someone else have them at a good price instead of storing them for the next 40 years....


Anyhow the 06' GTO seats are awesome. They sit great, have 8 way power mobility and are about the same weight as stock seats based on the lower back-o-meter. Iv'e heard these sit up too high. That's why I was hesitant in the first place. Anyone that says they "sit up too high" must have been 6'9" and had stock buckets with broken springs in the lower seat before. I'm 6'1" + a touch and I sit in them great. They go back far enough that I can't reach the pedals and leave me with a solid 2" above my head which was better than anything I had before. I would say they are a touch lower than my newly stuffed stockers.


I did however reuse my 3" seat relocation brackets I made for the stock buckets. I figured it would allow me to run the seats forward to fit me correctly and hide the bracketry I made. I used a couple pieces of 1/8" x 1.5" wide x 3.25" long steel for the front. I used 3/16" x 1.5" angle iron for the rears. I shaved the rear angle iron down to 1" so it would clear the floor and give max headroom. Then its 12v on the red wire and a ground on the black. The install is pretty easy and straight forward. I'm going to make a thread detailing what is needed to get it done on PY and ill link it here is anyone is interested. If you have tools and and know what to do it's probably like a 4-5 hour job.


Well here's a few pics from the day....

I bet those seats are way more comfortable too, haha

you should get some custom upholstery to match the original interior. Im going to do that with my 68 Bird, I got some 02 Trans Am seats that Im going to get somebody to redo with comfortweave so somebody who doesnt know what they are looking at will never know. haha