Chairs out of old seats?

Darkwriter77 · Mar 19, 2008

Okay, at risk of sounding completely redneck and hillbilly here, I gotta ask ... has anyone here used their old Fox (or other car) seats for chairs around the house? Like, mounting them to an old office chair base, or bolting/welding them to some kinda homemade bracket?

I'd like to swap some different seats into my 'vert at some point in the future, and while I don't see them as being worth selling (faded, worn/torn fabric in places), I don't want to just toss them in a dumpster, either, because they're still pretty comfy to sit in. I was thinking they'd make a couple of nice computer chairs or game seats (for sitting in front of the TV).

Just curious if anyone else had done this as well, or had any ideas on how to go about it.

strtrcr50 · Mar 19, 2008

You could do something like this. link

grey5.0beast · Mar 19, 2008

There has been an old red truck seat in my buddys garage for 10 years and we sit on it all the time,good for changing into cleats or watching the b-ball game

LiquidGT · Mar 19, 2008

Somebody makes or made office chairs out of racing seats, I dont remember who sold them.

FrankenStang · Mar 19, 2008

*remembers the old computer chair we took apart and that's now in teh garage room*

SteedaGT9150 · Mar 20, 2008

LiquidGT said:
Somebody makes or made office chairs out of racing seats, I dont remember who sold them.

i think corbeau does something like that

stykthyn · Mar 20, 2008

I used mine as a gaming chair for a while till I got a popisan chair

25thmustang · Mar 20, 2008

Friend did it, Ill try and get pics.

Kabuki_notch · Mar 20, 2008

my buddy used seats out of a turbo coupe in his game room for a long time..

fiveohlxhatch · Mar 20, 2008

Yes it was Corbeau who makes an office chair "racing seat" which they still have on their website. My old seats from the '89 are in the basement. I planned on recovering them but they ended up by the pool table and haven't left.

Jmunk · Mar 20, 2008

I have a few friends that have done that and put them in their garage.

68stang351 · Mar 20, 2008

You mean like this?

Me and my friend made this about 4 years agoe one day when we were drunk/bored.
A small 9v battery mounted underneath works great for the power lumbar too.

85_SS_302_Coupe · Mar 20, 2008

I think for an office chair it's a badass idea. How cool would it be to have a nice racing seat for an office chair? You'd really need some kind of arm rests but it'd be cool to have a 5 point harness and everything done up with it.

LaserSVT · Mar 20, 2008

I have a friend that wrecked hit Terminator in 04 and he made a base for the seats and his wife took apart the back set tp make foot rests It was soo comfy and just looked killer. He had them in his game room, rich SOB

iwashmycar · Mar 20, 2008

id sit on em in a garage...never in a house, unless it was like a game or bar-room like was mentioned above, and also a nice seat..

Darkwriter77 · Mar 20, 2008

68stang351 said:
You mean like this?

Me and my friend made this about 4 years agoe one day when we were drunk/bored.
A small 9v battery mounted underneath works great for the power lumbar too.

Exactly!

So, did you have to weld up a bracket for it, or were you able to just take some scrap metal and bolt it together?

Mustang5L5 · Mar 20, 2008

I use the rear seat backs from an '04 GT as seats when i sit on the floor with my laptop on the coffee table. It's very comfortable.

My friends come over and think it's weird but when they sit on them they love em

nick6690 · Mar 20, 2008

my dad's friend had an old probe that he was taking to the junkyard so my dad took the seats out of it and made some really cool rolling chairs for the garage.

68stang351 · Mar 20, 2008

Darkwriter77 said:
Exactly!

So, did you have to weld up a bracket for it, or were you able to just take some scrap metal and bolt it together?

Actually, I just took the seat brackets off, and screwed to pieces of wood to the top of the office chair base, then drilled holes in the wood to run bolts into the bottom of the seat where the seat bracket bolted to. We did this in a matter of about 10 mins. I also spliced a 9v battery terminal into the lumbar wiring and mounted it under there too.

Darkwriter77 · Mar 20, 2008

68stang351 said:
Actually, I just took the seat brackets off, and screwed to pieces of wood to the top of the office chair base, then drilled holes in the wood to run bolts into the bottom of the seat where the seat bracket bolted to. We did this in a matter of about 10 mins. I also spliced a 9v battery terminal into the lumbar wiring and mounted it under there too.

Schweeeet.

I might do something similar my making some wood bases (painted or stained/urethaned, of course) to use them as game chairs/mini-recliners in the living room. Haven't quite decided just yet...

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