Bucket seat brackets and seats

[hotrod ford]

I know that 65-70 or so Mustang seats fit the special brackets for our trucks. With that, could I use seats from a mid 70 to late 80 Mustang? If so I'm sure I would need to modify the tracks. What would I need to do to make this work?

[hotrod ford]

[hotrod ford]

Bump?

[Whateverman]

do you have the bucket seat brackets already?
or- do you have the seats already??
more than likely they (the newer seats) would work, and probably the most you'd have to do would be to drill a couple of holes and throw in a few bolts if the stock ones didn't didn't line up

[hotrod ford]

The brackets will be here soon. The carpet is done in my cab and I have always wanted buckets so now is the time. Anyway, it seems really hard to find mid-late 60's lowback seats for these brackets, but the pnp sells seats for 16 dollars a seat. They have late 70's Mustang seats that are in good shape. I'm just not sure if they will work with the brackets.

[fordman]

the low backed seats hit the back of the cab almost. so high backed buckets will definetly hit the cab. and sit more upright than you want them too.

[hotrod ford]

The good thing is if I have to use high backs is that I'm taking out the cab tank. Also, I wonder if Mustang II or Maverick seats will work?

[Whateverman]

the seat backs on the low back buckets i have come up almost level to the window (about the same as a bench),changing out the tank won't make any difference in the clearance you'll have



...i have run high back buckets before (from a toyota celica or something like that) on some fabbed up brackets
and also had a nasty old one ton with some digusting massive velour buckets out of a 70's boat like a t-bird - like fordman said you'll definitely have to keep the seats in the full upright position (unless you put the seat forward fully)

i would personally try getting low backs with adjustable headrests ,so you could bend the headrest mounts to clear the window