Bucket seats

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat May 21, 05 1:01 am

I've ordered a new set of seat covers from American Originals, which are cut from patterns in the states to spec and shipped over. I've told them that the car has buckets, and seen late 60's b-body headrests and hinge covers on e-bay that match those on my car ('68 satlellite), but I'm still not convinved that the car had them from day one. Assuming that I have contemporary B body seats from somthing, is it safe to assume that the covers are going to fit? Did seats in a '68 dodge with buckets differ only in the stitching pattern over standard frames, or were frames significantly different from model to model and brand to brand?

After having made a complete hash of sorting out the cooling sytem, the last thing I want is a set of slubs that make my seats look like Kate Moss wearing Dawn French's trousers, or visa versa!

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat May 21, 05 11:19 am

in a 68 dodge the bucket seats were only different from the standard, ie bench seat and as far as I know, there werent different style of buckets available. By the way, bucket seats werent very, well, you know, buckety - they were split front seats with a consol in the middle.
However 68 Dodge seat cover style was very different to 68 Sattelite style, but wil fit if your seats are original.
Head rest and hinge covers were universal B Body.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat May 21, 05 12:15 pm

As long as your bucket seats came out of a 68/69 B-body your new seat covers will fit perfectly.

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Sat May 21, 05 9:05 pm

68's did not have headrests unless ordered, they became standard mid 69 production.