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Post by maxx1974 on Oct 16, 2008 17:00:48 GMT -5
Are decent seat backs hard to come by or just expensive ? I've not seen any for sale on Ebay. I have been looking haven't found any yet, but with the prices that classic auto salvages charge I'm sure THEY are not cheap  For example I called Texas Acres for a price on lower door panels a couple of months ago and was told $129.00 each plus shipping !! So I have not called them back for seat backs! Anyone having experiences dealing with this subject and how they solved the problem would be greatly appreciated, also anything about pricing would help as well. I've seen some reproductions they looked terrible. Thanks in advance ;D maxx |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2008 12:33:39 GMT -5
Maxx: Seems to me that you have discovered that calling a dedicated Mopar salvage yard is pretty much an act of last resort. Most of their prices are far above what would be considered "fair market value" Here is one place that you might try calling www.tonysparts.com/moparparts.aspIn my opinion, Tony has the best reputation of all these type businesses. Make no mistake, his parts are not cheap, nor would I expect them to be. Personally, I think you would be best to keep watching Ebay and putting up "wanted ads" on Mopar/Charger forums. The seat backs that you are looking for are not rare. They were used on a very wide variety of vehicles, for many years. They are not strictly 71-74 b body parts. I have pulled the same identical seat backs off of post 74 B bodies such as Magnums and Cordobas. Some of those post 74 backs have pockets sewn on the bottom of them, some do not. I was lucky enough to get a pretty nice pair in black recently that came off of some Cordoba buckets. I do run across those in junkyards with some regularity but generally not in black. I tend to run across a lot of them in dark red. (lots of red interior Cordobas out there) I did sell a pair of those in red a few months ago, real good condition, I think that I got about $40 for them. You are correct, the repro pieces are crap, as is the case for all of the repro interior hard plastic parts that I have seen for 71-74 b bodies so far. The biggest issue being that no effort was made to duplicate the original grain/texture. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2008 12:43:14 GMT -5
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Post by maxx1974 on Oct 20, 2008 18:58:50 GMT -5
I had not seen any repo plastic until just recently, and man it looked TERRIBLE in my opinion. The grain on the plastic was a pebble grain that was at least 3\16 in size. Detail for the arm rest on the rear plastic trim panel was almost nonexistent . Just a line barely embossed into the plastic outlining the arm rest, and I was standing beside the car with my head in the window looking for the arm rest and could barely see it. All of the large plastic trim panels had this same pebble grain appearance. Anyone who know what genuine MOPAR stuff looks like, I think would have been shocked I just thought that for the kind of money they charge for this stuff, we would get a better product. I will keep my fingers crossed ;D |
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