Classic Bucket Seats

[1602Mark]

I've just bought some period Corbeau seats for my 1972 BMW and am looking for some inspiration for a re trim. Ideally thinking something Porsche Outlaw style or maybe Singer influenced?

Any inspiration or cool old seat pics welcome.

Corbeau Equipe - or so I believe?

[Sebring440]

These Singer seats are quite nice:

[OLDBENZ]

Suggest similar seat cloth to that used on the Scheel seats in the 3.0 CSLs of the same period. Jaymic sell it.

[Ructions]

Depends on the exterior colour and what will go with it but I’d go with a nice tan/saddle leather.

[dandarez]

1602Mark said:

I've just bought some period Corbeau seats for my 1972 BMW and am looking for some inspiration for a re trim. Ideally thinking something Porsche Outlaw style or maybe Singer influenced?

Any inspiration or cool old seat pics welcome.

Corbeau Equipe - or so I believe?

Corbeau Equipe was the 'company' who made Corbeau seats.

Yours I believe are Corbeau 'GT6 Recline'.

Best Corbeau bucket (not recliner) imo was the GT4


Especially the 'tan' GT4. Takes me back to late 60s early 70s!!



edit
Yep, yours are GT6 recliners

[1602Mark]

That's great - thank you.

£22! Do you know what year that ad is from please? I like how the drawing shows how deep the bolsters are, which is my favourite aspect of these seats.

Edited by 1602Mark on Sunday 23 May 08:31

[1602Mark]

Well they arrived and I love them even more now I can see them in the fabric! They’re perfect for the 02 and despite their age the work perfectly and still recline etc.

I think they’d look great in ox blood leather with maybe a different seat back and cushion?

[davettf2]

Had a set of similar in my mini back in the 70's. Burnt my back on the rivets when jumping in after leaving the car in direct sun and not wearing a shirt. Oh the follies of youth!

[healeyneil]

I picked up a pair of these for my current project. I'm guessing that they are Corbeau also

[1602Mark]

Certainly look like they could be. What are you putting them in?

Mine are going in this...

[healeyneil]

Mine are going in this. It's a Fiberfab Jamaican- based on an Austin Healey 3000. Finished, it will look more like this

[1602Mark]

That's pretty cool. I'd prefer something like Dunlop steels to the wires though.

[velocemitch]

healeyneil said:

I picked up a pair of these for my current project. I'm guessing that they are Corbeau also

Yes they look like GT8
I saw a pair for sale on eBay recently, quite fancied them but they were too far away.

[dandarez]

velocemitch said:

healeyneil said:

I picked up a pair of these for my current project. I'm guessing that they are Corbeau also

Yes they look like GT8
I saw a pair for sale on eBay recently, quite fancied them but they were too far away.

Don't look like GT8 to me - that was a low back or high back comp. seat (with harness seat belt access).
It looks sort of Corbeau GT4 but from my recollection they always had 9 rows of 3 ringlets across (that one has 4 across) down the back, and seat area had 4 rows of 5 ringlets (your seat has 4 rows of 6 ringlets.

Could be a rival seat, like Billover, Moto Lita, Terry Hunter,(Huntmaster) or perhaps a later Corbeau, but I don't think so.

Corbeau is still going today, and you can get a 'retro' GT4 seat from them (still doesn't look like the original GT4 because it has fewer eyelets on back pad and also not for 18 quid anymore! LOL (apparently 18 quid in 1970 is today worth £240.22 so I little above inflation rate at £376.80 (I may of course be in error here, figures were never my forte - apart from the curvaceous type!).

[dandarez]

1602Mark said:

That's great - thank you.

£22! Do you know what year that ad is from please? I like how the drawing shows how deep the bolsters are, which is my favourite aspect of these seats.

Edited by 1602Mark on Sunday 23 May 08:31

Apols, missed that. Don't have it to hand at the mo, but 1970-72. I can tell you that advert was not the usual John Brown Wheels or any of the other know car parts sellers, it was a Mail Order company that sold loads of car stuff called 'Discount Marketing' in Waverley, Bury St Edmunds.
All purchases were 'post free' if you quoted 'Dept CCC' (the ad was in the monthly 'Triple C' mag as we knew it then - ie 'Cars and Car Conversions' - in fact, back then everything seemed to be 'free delivery' no matter who you ordered from. Many included subframes and runners too.
They'd add all that as extras today!