I am looking for some simple buckets for my 55. Not bombers or anything high back. Early Mustang seats are all wrong. I like the early Courier seats, but those never pop up. What is a good, simple seat to put in a hot rod build? Not fancy, but pretty decent.
I think early Falcon buckets would fit nice. Score one of those small consoles from a Falcon for it to complete the look.
I looked Falcon seats up. They would be just about perfect. Going for a no frills hotrod. I considered low back van seats like the super stock cars, but all of those seem to have been crushed around here.
Old T-Bird buckets are real nice, but nobody is giving away decent ones. It may pay to buy some ratty ones and have them reupholstered.
1960's era Mercedes cars had a nice looking square bucket seat with some fairly appealing looking chrome hardware, they came in even the 4 door sedans and are period correct and surprisingly not that wide. Early 60's Rambler Classic/Ambassador/Six models had some very square front seats that look more like a split bench than a bucket but again, they came even in the 4 doors and those have the recline-flat feature too which would be a neat addition to a custom car.
The problem I am running into is high prices for junk frames that need covered and upholstery work is ridiculous. I had a set of early Econoline seats, but those seem to have been reclaimed by the universe. This is a bare bones hotrod.
I looked at a couple of MGs today. Those seats would be perfect. An option I had not considered was step van seats. There is a local yard that has several and they use them for storage. I could scavenge them pretty easily since I would be effectively giving them more storage space.