WA Buddy Buckets $850

[michael bustamante]

Originally Posted by leddzepp

Set in my garage

ok zepp you're gonna need to sell me these at a homey discount

[mahanian]

Sorry for hijacking your post but here's the story: The federal government mandated starting January 1st 1968 that all 2 door passenger vehicles, including trucks, must have a locking feature for all seatbacks. Rather than redesign the buddy buckets with a locking feature they simply welded the seatback and bottom together. So, all 67 buddy buckets will fold forward and some early production 68's will as well.

As stated in the DOT Report: "Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 207, which took effect for passenger cars on January 1, 1968, is one of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's initial vehicle regulations. It specifies strength requirements for automotive seats and their attachment assemblies, so as to "minimize the possibility of their failure by forces acting on them as a result of vehicle impact." Many of the specific requirements of Standard 207 are based on the Society of Automotive Engineers' Recommended Practice J879, which had already been in place since November 1963. The one significant difference between Standard 207 and Recommended Practice J879 - the one tangible modification of vehicle seating systems in model years 1968 - was the introduction of seat back locks in the folding front seatbacks of passenger vehicles with two doors"

[special-K]

Ohhhh... OK, right. Makes sense. Great detective there Sherlock

[sduckworth13]

Here is a set of buddy buckets I had that only the drivers seat folded forward.