[FC] Bench seat on a Rampside

[Larry Sherwood]

Mine had the latch, its on the drivers side. Ours been bent many times from
out closing whole the seat is folded forward, and then folded back with the
latch in the latched position

Larry
On Apr 23, 2014 6:03 PM, "Ron" <ronh at owt.com> wrote:

> My '63 Rampside has no latches or clips and no holes or any other
> indication
> of there ever being anything there to hold the seat back back.
>
> RonH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. R. Read
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 12:55 PM
> To: Fred Adler ; corvanatics at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: [FC] Bench seat on a Rampside
>
> There is no backing OR latch on my Rampside seatback.
> Later, JR
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Adler" <fadler at genbio.com>
> To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 3:30 PM
> Subject: [FC] Bench seat on a Rampside
>
>
> >I have new vinyl seat covers and foam and am reupholstering the front
> bench
> >seat on my Rampside.  Two questions:
> >
> >
> > 1.       The prior seat cover was not stock and they had some sheet
> > aluminum screwed to the back of the bench seat.  The new seat cover will
> > cover the back but when I dismantle the old, the sheet aluminum comes off
> > and is obviously not stock.  The back of the seat is framed but do I put
> > something like Masonite or cardboard across the back prior to recover or
> > just slip on seat cover over the seat wide frame?
> >
> > 2.       Was there a "lock" or "lever" to release the front bench to fold
> > forward.  There is none now and there are holes but is there a locking
> > mechanism to keep the seat from just folding forward?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Fred Adler
> > San Diego
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