Re: 69 seat styles/Sprint parts

[Richard Welty <rwelty@domain.elided>]

At 09:58 AM 3/11/99 -0800, Matt Danning wrote:
>I saw another style of seat on a European GTV that was for sale at Daytona
>Motors in San Francisco a couple of years ago.  They looked like the 69
>seats with flying buttresses.  But instead of having the headrest sitting
>on top of the seatback, it was integrated into the seatback so that when it
>was down, it looked like a lowback 69 seat.  A lever on the side of the
>seat operated a rack and pinion which raised the headrest up to whiplash
>protecting height.  

that pretty accurately describes the passenger side seat on my 1968 (built
september 67) 1750 GTV, which is an italian market car.

the driver side seat does not have the adjustable back; there are no head
rests at all on eitiher seat.

richard

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