Gtx rear seat surround mockup

[Gus chiggins]

Mocked up the rear seat surround in my 67 plymouth belvedere 2. I had to do some tweaking ( nothing major) to make it fit. Yes, it's a four door. I just have to get the hooks.

 

[AR67GTX]

I would have thought the hooks would be universally mounted for the seat back in all body styles. Do you remove the sedan ones?

 

[Gus chiggins]

I would have thought the hooks would be universally mounted for the seat back in all body styles. Do you remove the sedan ones?

Yes, I had to remove the two hooks for the sedan. They interfered with the seat surround. I believe the hooks are the same. The GTX hooks are probably the same as the belvedere, but they are inverted. I had to do a little tweaking to the surround but, nothing major. I will have to look for the lower mounting braces for the lower part of the upper rear seat. The hooks came off easy. I took pliers and moved them back, and forth, and they broke off clean. I will remove the surround, and shoot it with SEM trim black. It was not difficult to pull this off.

 

[R413]

The GTX / Satellite takes completely different mounting brackets for the seat back than Belvederes. Here is a photo of a 1967.

1966 brackets are narrower, and so are the holes on the plastic seat surround. Yet another part that is different 66 to 67.

 

[Gus chiggins]

The GTX / Satellite takes completely different mounting brackets for the seat back than Belvederes. Here is a photo.

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Those are the hooks I'm trying to scrounge up. Stephens performance said they will contact me on monday. I keep reminding them that i need the 67 GTX, or 66 Satellite hooks

 

[R413]

1967 Satellite also

 

[Gus chiggins]

1967 Satellite also

Yes, i forgot. I actually saw a c body with a similar surround on ebay. He was selling the seat back, and showed a picture of the car. I tried to convince him to sell me the hooks, but he insisted that those hooks would not fit a b body, the hooks looked the same to me. I did not argue

 

[Gus chiggins]

The GTX / Satellite takes completely different mounting brackets for the seat back than Belvederes. Here is a photo of a 1967.

1966 brackets are narrower, and so are the holes on the plastic seat surround. Yet another part that is different 66 to 67.
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Could you show me the lower seat mounts for the rear upper seat for a 67 GTX, 66, 67 Satellite?

 

[R413]

Drivers side.

 

[Gus chiggins]

Drivers side.

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Haha, hey if you have a few of those brackets hanging around doing nothing let me know. I knew going in doing this conversion would entail some things. Just a matter of digging around.

 

[Gus chiggins]

True, but some used the sedan hooks but inverted them to secure the seat back

 

[Gus chiggins]

I would have thought the hooks would be universally mounted for the seat back in all body styles. Do you remove the sedan ones?

Sprayed the seat surround today. Sprayed a prep solvent then painted it SEM trim black. It's boring waiting for IAN.

 

[Gus chiggins]

I would have thought the hooks would be universally mounted for the seat back in all body styles. Do you remove the sedan ones?

Yes, i removed those.

 

[Gus chiggins]

If i do another one of these seat conversions, stephens performance sent me the seat mounting brackets, and the seat hooks. I now have an extra set of hooks, and i removed them from the panel using a spot weld cutter. I trimmed up some of the panel remnants, now i have perfect templates to cut the holes for the hooks next time i do this. Plus i have the floor shift template too, no guess work figuring where the console brackets go.