47-55.1 Hey you all, how the heck you doing? I'm working on my truck again!!!

[MARTINSR]

Ok, I made a challenge to start working on my truck again this year. I've been on my "five minute a day plan." Though I am retired so often I will put three or four hours into it. The only problem is I am retired, meaning I am an old man and man does it kick my butt! Blows my mind that I used to stay up till 1 in the morning painting a car when I had my shop 35 years ago. Now, I work those 3 hours on my truck and it feels like I have mowed every lawn in my neighborhood! Wow, it will kick my butt. And I go to sleep like my parents told me at 9 o'clock every night.

Soooooooo, I searched through our 4 "local" (a couple are about 20-30 miles away) and I looked at mostly van rear seats. Being my truck is chopped and sectioned I needed a very thin seat. I went with the measurements I needed and took notes of all the seats I found that were kinda close.

No kidding, this was crazy, I thought I would need to make a plywood bottom with holes on drivers and passenger sides with elastic straps across them. I had given up on finding the "right" thing so I figured I would just use the foam and set it on that plywood piece.

I gave up, then did the search again a few weeks later. And WHAMO at the closest wrecking yard to my house just a couple of miles away (I pass it often out shopping) and I found this amazing treasure!

Not kidding, I had the diagram of the measurements of my seat that I needed in the truck and this thing matched it PERFECTLY! We are talking within a quarter of an inch! The thing was custom made! I bought it and when I pulled it apart it was obvious that it was custom made for that van for some reason. It was much wider than all over van rear seats so somehow the owner who wanted a custom van had it made (or made it).

Not kidding, I got home with the seat and set it in the truck and got a little verclemp, it was PERFECT! The mounting would be easy, it was crazy, it's like it was made for me!

I went and bought a few large boxes of sodas and went and gave it to the guys at the wrecking yard.

The seat is all done and I have moved on to the next project, the gas door in the bed.

Hope you put up with my long posts.

Brian