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Has anyone ever seen these seat track biscuits

Richard Cranium

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I pulled the seats out of my 38,000 untouched '68 Charger to replace the worn out seat bottom foam & these stained 1/2" plywood biscuits are what is in place on the bottom of the seat track. The seats in this car have never been removed and the (factory undercoated) nuts underneath have never been disturbed until I took them off over the weekend.


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Last July, I also removed the seats from my bronze '68 prior to sending it off to the paint shop and those seats had the same plywood biscuits, but since that car had the carpets replaced by a previous owner, I just assumed that the plastic ones cracked (which they tend to do) and someone just made up plywood replacements.

Owning two cars with these same biscuits, I guess it's safe to say that they are OEM, but has anyone else ever seen these in place of the more common (and taller) plastic biscuits?
 
On my track there about 3/8" thick and one solid piece made out of a very hard plastic or rubber and cracked but still useable. Actually I don't know the year these tracks are from.
 
Wow i had those on my 1968 valiant and I also thought the same thing someone made them, now I’m suspecting they where from factory? Now i regret having to look for them and may have landed in trash
 
I've seen cast metal (kind of like a pot aluminum) and fibrous plastic.

Not seen plywood, though.

Both those cars from the same plant?

Most of my stuff has been St. Louis.

I have one Lynch Rd. car but haven't had the seats up.
 
Save a buck ! Why buy a million plastic ones when someone could make these the factory was smart
 
Wow i had those on my 1968 valiant and I also thought the same thing someone made them, now I’m suspecting they where from factory? Now i regret having to look for them and may have landed in trash
How many do you need? Working in the custom cabinetry industry for 35 years its amazing what gets thrown out.
 
Probably some guy in purchasing forgot to re-order the plastic ones and had some production guy hole sawing them out of plywood to save his :carrot:

It was 1968 :fool:
 
I bought a set of buckets from a low milage 68 Coronet a couple of years ago and they also had those plywood spacers. Chucked them in the garbage thinking they were homemade.
 
I've seen cast metal (kind of like a pot aluminum) and fibrous plastic.

Not seen plywood, though.

Both those cars from the same plant?

Most of my stuff has been St. Louis.

I have one Lynch Rd. car but haven't had the seats up.


Both are Hamtramk. One was built in 12/67 & the other in 1/68.
 
Knowing how car companies tried to save at every chance they got, those pieces were the byproduct of something else. Probably skids with parts on them or something else they needed.
 
That's a 2 month span at the same plant.

I wonder how many more in and around that time period from Hamtramck we can vet as "unmolested".
 
...and see what they have.
 
I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that a beancounter figured they could order machine-made cast plastic one's far cheaper than hand-made plywood one's.
 
My 68 Valiant came with factory buckets.It did not have them. California born and raised so maybe the thought that a St.Louis or Hamtramk built car could hold the answer.
 
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