<VV> early Monza bench Seat

George Jones 65crownv8 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 13:09:17 EST 2013


The fella's name is Wade Lanning, and Tony knows him.
On Feb 27, 2013 10:19 AM, <tkalp at cox.net> wrote:

> Tony, good to hear from you again.
>
> My understanding is that the cloth '61 Monza seats are indeed unusual.
>  They were only offered for a short time and as an option from the vinyl
> (not absolutely sure on this). As far as the cloth insert Monza seats go,
> the bench seats are more common now than the bucket cloth insert versions.
> (only about three '61 Monzas with the cloth insert buckets are accounted
> for at this time . . . I have one of the Monzas)  There was a fellow
> starting a special interest group on the cloth Monza interiors and I think
> they even put out a newsletter.  If I were more organized, I could come up
> with his name . . .  will look for it.
>
> Does this mean the '60 is getting paint also?
>
> T. Kalp
> Wichita, KS
>
> ---- Tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > A while back, there was a brief bit of commentary about early Monzas
> > that had bench seats.  I kinda stumbled into a slight discovery about
> > a '61 Monza seat that I put in my '60 4-door to have something to
> > occupy space up front while its seats get restored at an upholstery
> > shop here in town that's run by a grizzly looking guy who does
> > vintage car upholstery work.
> >
> >
> > Yes, the pigpen '60 4-door is getting new upholstery (seats and door
> > panels) and yes it's gonna be the original 1960 style and color, or
> > at least pretty close, close enough that a layman wouldn't know the
> > difference.   But enough about that for the moment.
> >
> >
> > I've had this '61 Monza bench seat for years now, brought it back
> > from a show... Hank K. gave it to me simply for coming to get it.  He
> > had it in his vehicle... he helped me put it into my Jeep Cherokee
> > etc. still upside-down as it came out of Hank's vehicle.   I never
> > actually saw the seat right-side-up until I pulled it out of storage
> > here, and I'd never actually looked at the covers except what you'd
> > see from the bottom and hadn't bothered to check condition seeing as
> > how Hank had said it was intact and together, just faded and worn...
> > which it was, once I got a look at it right-side-up.
> >
> > It was indeed a red (originally, now a bleary maroon hue) '61 Monza
> > bench seat with *cloth* inserts.  From the looks of it, the seat was
> > original and didn't appear to have ever been repaired or
> > recovered.  Considering its age it's in surprising shape.
> >
> >
> > I had never seen an early Monza bench seat with cloth inserts
> > although I knew there had been a few made at one time.   So, by any
> > chance does anyone know roughly (ballpark percentage-wise) just how
> > many of these seats with the cloth inserts may have been made?   Like
> > I said, I'd never seen one with the cloth inserts.
> >
> > It's comfortable...  I'd slated it for eventual use in my Lakewood
> > which has a disreputable front bench that really will need serious
> > work to straighten out, and all this '61 seat needed is covers.   I'm
> > wondering how many original '61 Monza bench seats with the cloth
> > inserts are still in existence...?   Now I'd feel kinda bad about
> > reupholstering it with '61 700 covers.
> >
> > tony..
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