Fitting the seats

When we collected Rosemary, she had modern(ish) bucket seats fitted, from some sort of Holden. We had already just swapped out the backs from two seats, but in order to fit all three original seats along the front I had to replace the rails with the originals.

Refitting the front seats took around four and half hours - most of this spent fiddling around trying to get at nuts hiding in almost inaccessible spots. At one point I dropped a 7/16th spanner which got stuck between the RHS fuel tank and its mounting bracket :-O


Old rails in place


RHS rail fitted

The RHS rail was the most awkward; I ended up having to (gently) manoeuvre a nut into place with a mole wrench, start the bolt off by hand, then swap the mole wrench for a spanner to tighten it.


Removing a painted-over washer


Front seat rails attached


Front seats fitted

I then got to work clearing out the back, and refitting the original bench seats. This was a much easier task, which only took around 45 minutes.


Rear bench seats fitted