Alternative to Sport Seats!

[jbscheff]

I just got my new seats installed. I couldn't afford sport seats, so went with some Recaro's from an old BMW. I had them recovered in houndstooth and black vinyl, and had the back seats done to match. Not exactly OEM, but I think they came out pretty good. Take a look...

[Oh Haha]

Sweet!!

Did you use the Porsche sliders or have to modify them at all?

[jbscheff]

I used Recaro sliders with brackets from Wedge Engineering. Bolted right in...well almost except for the one bolt I cross-threaded and had to re-tap. There's always something...

[Trackrash]

Nice looking seats. Can't wait to see them at the next AX.

[Evans, Marv]

What did you have to pay for those "old" BMW seats? Very nice, by the way.

[jbscheff]

Marv, they were $1050 for the pair, plus the sliders. An extra $175 did the back seats.

[Evans, Marv]

Great deal. Congrats.
Before I started getting involved much in redoing the interior of cars (which I don't do much of actually), I really didn't buy any seats and didn't think much about whether they were expensive or not. I wanted to get a set of Recaro sport seats for my '69 to replace the seats in there. I bought a pair on Ebay for $750 plus whatever the shipping was at the time, thinking that those seats were really expensive. I bought them because I wanted the pair and there weren't too many coming up at the time. This was in the late '90s. When the seats arrived, they were in really good condition, although I was going to have them recovered. I look back now and am amazed at the good deal I got. A lot of things have sky rocketed in value.