Re: [alfa] Seats from a '79 spider

["Dean W. Cains" <dwc@xxxxxx>]

Hi Mario:

AFAIK, seats from any year 105/115 Spider will bolt right into any other 
year 105/115 Spider.  I've got '87 Veloce seats in my '74 Spider, and the 
only difficulties came when I had to drill out the bolts holding in the '74 
seats.  They had obviously been in place for 26 or so years, and were made 
of an alloy that had the consistency of slightly chilled butter.  The bolt 
heads stripped with the first touch of my screwdriver.  Soak your bolts 
with lots of PB Blaster if they're still in place.

Be aware that the '79 seats didn't originally have the shoulder belt guides 
that your '84 car requires, which is exactly the reason I retrofitted the 
'87 seats to my '74.  I wanted seats that would work with 3-point seat 
belts, sourced from an '82> Spider.  It's not a big job to swap the belt 
guides from your '84 seats onto the '79 seats.  Remember the old MG slogan, 
"Safety Fast!".  I've owned a few MG's, though, and never had one that was 
either safe or fast . . .

Regards,

Dean
Lutz, FL
'74 & '87 Spider Veloce's


At 11:36 PM 2/7/2004, you wrote:

> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 07:43:09 -0800 (PST)
> From: Mario Pinto <pintomario@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] Seats from a '79 spider
>
> Does anyone know if the seats from a '79 spider will
> fit an '84 spider ? without much or any modification.
>
> thanks for any information you can provide
>
> Mario Pinto
> '84 spider
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