by VultureNo2 » Apr 22, 2011 8:38 am
You can't really see it from the picture, but the color is charcoal gray. I intentionally went a bit lighter because VNo1 had black and it did burn. Also, the black looked a little too bumble bee like for me. I'm sure it will still burn a little but not as bad as the black.
Hippie, I did tak a lot of pictures of it. I'll post some of the construction pictures on how I did it. I tried to match what I had on the 1977 Vulture I had but didn't have any exact dimensions. I just tried to get it as close as possible and then customed the back sides to slope because I will have a tripod tow bar on it. I'll try to give you my dimensions also, since yours will be the same.
The advantage to this back seat compared to the 1979 wrap around style is that this one comes out real easy for access to the back well and bilge.
I did build them from scratch and did the vinyl also. It wasn't my favorite job and took a while. but I really wanted to stick to the original looking seats. They do add a little weight though vs some custom stuff. It really didn't same any money either. For the price of the wood, foam for the back seat and vinyl, I could have got a couple real cool bucket seats. I may still get some buckets because I am designing everything so it will pop in and out. Best of both worlds.
I still have some trim to do on the sides to cover the staples. The sides will have charcoal gray plexiglasss and make them look 100% better. I'll get that finished this weekend and post after completed also.
Bill
You can't really see it from the picture, but the color is charcoal gray. I intentionally went a bit lighter because VNo1 had black and it did burn. Also, the black looked a little too bumble bee like for me. I'm sure it will still burn a little but not as bad as the black.
Hippie, I did tak a lot of pictures of it. I'll post some of the construction pictures on how I did it. I tried to match what I had on the 1977 Vulture I had but didn't have any exact dimensions. I just tried to get it as close as possible and then customed the back sides to slope because I will have a tripod tow bar on it. I'll try to give you my dimensions also, since yours will be the same.
The advantage to this back seat compared to the 1979 wrap around style is that this one comes out real easy for access to the back well and bilge.
I did build them from scratch and did the vinyl also. It wasn't my favorite job and took a while. but I really wanted to stick to the original looking seats. They do add a little weight though vs some custom stuff. It really didn't same any money either. For the price of the wood, foam for the back seat and vinyl, I could have got a couple real cool bucket seats. I may still get some buckets because I am designing everything so it will pop in and out. Best of both worlds.
I still have some trim to do on the sides to cover the staples. The sides will have charcoal gray plexiglasss and make them look 100% better. I'll get that finished this weekend and post after completed also.
Bill
