After a good year or so on a home-made Recaro 'Style' seat I decided to upgrade to our beloved Recaro model. Well technically it's not a Coupe seat though - I'm sure this might surprise a few...

Very nice!!

Where are the seat belt mounts?

In the garden shed. They were a bit pink.

Very nice!
Too bad my Lancia left-overs got stolen from my attic.

The little blighters wont open for me at work

As if by I.T. magic the suede popped up into my face.

Pure Klaas!

I like it!

For my Design & Technology GCSE project many moons ago, when I was 15 I made an office chair, but fabricated the whole thing apart from the upper seat.

I went to a scrap yard as they were known then, now called a vehicle dismantler, with my dad and pulled a seat out of a Fiat X19, got hold of a couple of bearings, and school provided the steel pipe for the main shaft. The design worked on a screw principle, so you turned the chair round and round one way to increase the height, and the opposite way to decrease.

School wouldn't let me take it home though because they wanted to display it in D&T department entrance

I do fancy making another one after seeing yours

Mine was easier. Out comes seat, get all rails etc off, unbolt chassis of former office chair, take hammer (seat is too round at bottom), take hard wood, take circular saw, take router, take drill, make some custom mounting points,... hey presto!



I'd love to learn and weld though instead of always resorting to wood or metal plates and bolts.