<VV> humor: "Worthless" 2doors

[Tony Underwood]

At 02:21 PM 5/17/2009, airvair at earthlink.net wrote:
>Tony,
>
>You forgot to tell everyone that you're a BIG  man. Bet you could do a
>"Hightower" with that '60. LOL




Actually I fit OK if the seat is all the way back.   There's room up 
front to bowleg it and still fit comfortable.

It's getting in and out that requires some contorts.     :)




It helps a bit that the car now has a front bench out of a '70s 
vintage Buick Special, which does fit the car... at least the front 
mounts do; back mounts are farther back and required some tomfoolery 
to keep the seat brackets secured to the floor.   It goes back a bit 
farther than the stock '60 bench does.



This seat was temporarily installed in the white "Killer Lakewood" 
that formerly belonged to Bill Burleson, after having been picked up 
by another club member from the woman Bill originally sold the wagon 
to (and who previously had inadvertently become responsible for the 
Lakewood's becoming known as the "killer wagon").   The fellow does 
upholstery work for a living, took the seats out of the Lakewood to 
redo them, stuck this Buick front seat in it in the interim.    Other 
projects came along, he made an offer to sell the Lakewood...  which 
came back to live here among the current fleet beside its former 
stablemate, the blue '69 Monza coupe that we got from Burleson 
shortly before he passed.    Anyway, factory bench went back into the 
killer wagon, Buick bench went into my '60.    It may well stay there...  ;)

I'd WANTED the sweet red Monza sedan that Bill had, but it was too 
nice to go for the sort of price that I could afford...



The real fun is when I crawl into the blue '67 coupe that Linda 
drives daily.   She's fairly short... and to get that 500 bench seat 
to slide back you have to be sitting in it.  And YES I've had the 
seat out and I've cleaned and lubed the tracks.   It's a daunting 
task to squeeze my legs under that wheel and column just to be able 
to slide the seat back.


PS:   recently replaced the floors in the '67 500 coupe, front and 
rear, spent a weekend with the mig welder and some Clarks' 
pans.    Also, put carpet back in it, didn't even consider the rubber 
mats again... don't wanna have to do floors in that car 
again.    Insurance was two coats of silver Hammerite exterior 
protective enamel paint on the fresh floors.    Next opportunity, the 
undersides are gonna be painted with the same stuff.


tony..