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Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
I have found a pair of buckets that are supposedly from a panel or suburban. The seat backs look good, foam and cover. The bottoms need new foam (does it exist?) and a cover. The slider for the driver side is there but the passenger looks to fold forward. They're the same width. The frame will need to be blasted and coated. What would you offer?
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
Never seen or heard of true buckets in the '60-'66 Chevy/GMC Suburbans or Panels, however, on the C30 camper conversions, commonly done by Coachworks and others, they had twin buckets, to allow passage to the back of the camper. I have also heard of the buddy buckets in the trucks of the late sixties/early seventies, but not in the '60-'66 years. I would like to see a picture of said buckets.
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
![]() The original Suburban front seats were more like a 70/30 seat, where the passenger side folded forward for access to the rear. The buddy buckets from the '67-'72 era were basically two bucket seats and a center console with a padded seat that were all connected together on one frame. These highly sought after and are expensive when you do find one.
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
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I was aware of the whole 70/30 thing but didnt want to point it out to him. He told me it was a 62 or 63. I've seen the 67-72 era bukets and they look nothing like it. These have no design, just like the plain 'ol bench seats. The guy wants this crap gone. He was trying to get me to buy the seats as a bundle with an odd tranny and crossmember that were supposedly out of a X frame truck. Were'nt they powerglides back then? Looked nothing like one, the bell housing was bolted on and there was an opening on top. It was defintely an auto though. Maybe I'll just pick 'em up. Last edited by Joemomma1; 12-24-2009 at 05:30 AM. |
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
do they look like these????
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
Those are the animals. Thanks for the pics. Do you know what they're out of?
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
Those are the same seats that my 1966 panel originally came with. The p.o. had removed them and installed another set of bucket seats in the truck and left then in the weather for 10+ years which totally ruined them.
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
Apache63:
Thanks for sharing. I learn something new everyday. I am going back to the factory literature for the Panels, to see what I can find. They sure look original and like the seats I found in the C30 Camper truck. |
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
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is this the trans that you were looking at ![]() By rondavid, shot with E8800 at 2009-11-22 ron Last edited by padresag; 12-24-2009 at 01:18 PM. |
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
The original bench seat does not conflict with pulling the tranny cover, so I doubt that is the reason for these buckets. If I had to guess, I think they may have been from a Camper conversion on a C30.
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
The pics Apache63 posted are of my buckets i pulled out of a 65 panel. I have them in my truck now. I need to get them recovered, but they are a cool alternate to the bench, and dont change the seating geometry at all.
If you can get them for a bill, i would jump on that. BTW, there is a company that makes seat upolstery called "Seatz" that i am dealing with currently that I'm sending the existing seat covers to so they can make patterns for new seat covers. In a month or two you may be able to get new covers! Good luck....
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
My dad's 66 panel was an original ambulance and it had those same buckets in it, we took them out to put some racing seats in it, but they are next to perfect and completely original, so i guess special use panels came with them.
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
chev did not make the ambulances. these were all modified and made by specialty shops ; same for fire engines and school buses. They all installed what they needed to make those vehicles work in their own environment
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
I got a "62 GMC Suburbans and Panels" brochure, it has those seats in it, they are called "comfort-ride bucket seats" they where the seats in the panels.
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
yeah i had those seats in a few of the panels i have had also they were used in my 61 crewcab same seats as in the photos
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............................................................................... So its confirmed. There are true buckets seats for the 60-66, found only in panels. Last edited by Joemomma1; 12-25-2009 at 12:15 AM. |
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
Thanks to all that provided info on these seats, I learned something new today.
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
[QUOTE=Joemomma1;3692252]Thats it, just a lot cleaner. Anything special about those?
............................................................................... they were fairly hd. had a good 1 st gear for coming out of the hole. they were the first true drag racing a/t. that trans was used in 54-56 olds, caddilacs and 55-62 chev and gmc trucks. they were the trans that B&M automotive were based on ron |
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Re: Panel truck/Suburban bucket seats?
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