What comfortable seats are out there?

[mopower58]

What are you guys using?While my engine program is on hold I want to upgrade my seats. Those summit racing seats even with covers and extra padding wear me out on a long afternoon ride. What seats are comfy and still have 5 point harness compatibility for the Coronet? I would love to do leather with suede inserts.

[Scott Liggett]

Its kinda hard to suggest a seat because everyones back and butt are different. My Impalas original buckets killed my back, but my caprices bench seat iz just fine. My new Scat Procars are nice. I did fine with them on the Anti Tour.

[milner351]

Diversified had several of them on display for people to sit in before buying - there is quite a size difference in the length of the bottom cushion especially (thigh support).

Hopefully you can find a place that has several options you can sit in before buying, ordering from a catalogue would be a high risk of return shipping and restocking charges if you didn't like them.

[ksj2]

Dont know how these would work with a 5 pt but the most comforatble car seats Ive been in are the air bladder adjustable 88 Daytona Shelby seats.Ive got back problems and kept adjusting the pressure and back didnt bother me at all.That was 600 mile trip only stopping for gas.

[CDMBill]

I currently have leather faced buckets out of an 88 Mustnag GT. They have an extendable thigh bolster and that allows the submarine belt to come up at a good if not ideal spot. For me they are super comfortable which was necessary on some of our 9 or 10 hour Drag Week marathon days. They are a bit heavy at 45 pounds each and so I'm looking for less weight and equal comfort with 5 point belt compatability. The leading candidates at the moment are Corbeau LG-1's. With micro-sude and leather they run $1000+ the pair. Damn! I know I should be getting tin bucket Kirkey's or something to save weight but the idea of five 6-10 hour days in those is not apealling to me.

[mopower58]

The Corbeau seat is nice. Before I spent 1200.00 (with frames) I wanted a testimonial about how you feel 20 years younger after a 10 hour ride!..lol

[squirrel]

The less padding there is in the seat, the safer you are....if your car is fast.

So, there is a trade-off.

[mopower58]

Dont know how these would work with a 5 pt but the most comforatble car seats Ive been in are the air bladder adjustable 88 Daytona Shelby seats.Ive got back problems and kept adjusting the pressure and back didnt bother me at all.That was 600 mile trip only stopping for gas.

Those sound good but wouldn't they be small for a 67 Coronet and made out of unobtanium?

[moparmaniac07]

I find the buckets in my '73 Charger pretty comfortable, and you could probably make a 5 pt work, if you have a roll bar. I don't know what they actually came out of though, I think it was an E-body. There is absolutely no lateral support from them though. I was going to get a pair of '78 Cordoba seats, they looked real comfy, but the deal fell through. I don't remember what kind of racing seats it had in it when I got it, but they didn't seem too bad, though I didn't spend much time in them. Interestingly enough, they wound up in a neighbors Javelin, and he spends a lot of time in it, but a lot of short trips too, so I don't know if he'd know how good they are for longer periods of time.

edit: Wow, all that and probably none of it you can use.

[200kss]

I sat in a selection on procar seats at lane automotive and wasn't impressed. GTO seats are the best thing I've sat in recently, but they are pretty wide and not cheap. My low buck upgrade was 96 trans am seats with a power seat track. None of these have provisions for a 5 point harness though.

[anotheridiot]

sounds like you need a tape measure and a trip to the local auto salvage yard. if you are planning to cover them anyway, the best frame and foam would probably go cheap on torn upholstery. i.e. bring a box cutter

[Caveman Tony]

if you are hitting the junkyard, try plopping yah butt in a set of VW seats. Unless you have a 50" waist, they're comfy on long rides but not too mushy. Kinda like my girlfriend. Except for the 50" thing.

[milner351]

Volvo's have very comfy seats as well, and mercedes seats are good too - and have very tough material.

[mopower58]

I love the seats in my wife's SRT 8 Challenger but they are high dollar because of the air bags. As the car is now runs 10.20's @ 130in street trim with the 650 hp wedge. The new blown Hemi build should have 1000 to 1100 hp which should be mid to low 9's at least and 140-150 mph range. I would rather be safe. Maybe the Corbeau's and an official NHRA stadium cushion!!

[Loren]

Maybe with the new motor, those long afternoon rides won't be so long anymore. Hemis aren't really a cruising motor, I imagine that goes more so for a blown one, and you'll be OK with watcha got (with the stadium cushion, of course...a wonderful, adjustable, removable seat feature I'd bet).

My naturally-aspirated 496 probably gets 5 mpg. I don't actually want to know, it just does not take long to empty that tank.

Going through a junkyard with a tape measure, as others have noted, is also my method of choosing seats. Usually the import section has something, and they tend to be light enough. You can sit in them and wiggle around a bit, and imagine how they'd feel on a long drive, or around corners. Watch out for narrow ones, they won't look right in a wide interior. Then when you get 'em home, you can have them upholstered in some pattern that looks like original, and maybe have a notch taken out for the crotch strap. My /70 El Camino has Toyota buckets trimmed to look like Chevy, the Challenger's are as-original from a Mazda.

I spent a portion of my high-school years in the pass. seat of a '67 Coronet 500 w/ the stock factory buckets. No side support whatsoever, and I don't remember there being seatbelts somehow. Certainly I wasn't wearing one when the night my a-hole buddy slid the thing sideways into the curb in La Tuna Canyon (north of L.A.) in the rain and launched my ass across the car into the driver side window which fortunately was up, and didn't break. Ripped my hand up a bit...I don't know what it is I grabbed at on the way across to do that. So I was kinda pissed and after extracting myself off his lap I stomped out, and dripping blood, walked two miles home soaking wet where I called his dad to go get him then went to bed. See, before there was "drifting", there was us...oh, I'm guilty to and took out a spindle and ball-joint pretty good one evening to a passenger's consternation. At least I had a seatbelt rule.