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<\/a>“Fabricato Dalla Suardi Francesco & Figlio, VIA BINDA N 20, TEL. 470-412, MILANO.”\u00a0 Anyone know anything about these people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The mounting\u00a0ended up being\u00a0pretty complicated so I don’t feel so bad for how long it took to get it done.\u00a0 The main problem was, the track spacing on the floor was 1 inch wider than the track spacing on the seats.\u00a0 I reused the aluminum channel supports the PO used for the Spider seats but I lost one of the seat tracks in the move to my shop, so I switched to using the original Sprint seat tracks that thankfully the PO decided to hang on to.<\/p>\n
Using the aluminum cross pieces created the second problem, the spring bases of the seats hung down an inch lower than the\u00a0track mounting faces.\u00a0 The seat tracks\u00a0made up for most of the distance.\u00a0 Another problem that was discovered is that the fore to aft spacing of the mounting holes on the seat bottoms was less than those on the tracks.\u00a0 To cure both problems at once, I fashioned 1\/8″ x 5\/8″ x 14″ rail spacers that aslo acted as adapters between the tracks and seat.\u00a0 Once I had all 4 seat tracks mounted to the seats and began trying to mount the seats I noticed the final problem.\u00a0 The floor section that the captive nuts the tracks mount to stuck out too far for me to just drill through the aluminum cross pieces and bolt the seat tracks through them.<\/p>\n I made\u00a0four 3 inch long adapters from leftover stock that the rail spacers were made from.\u00a0 The adapters had a tapped M6 hole to secure the seat tracks to, a countersunk hole to screw through that used the captive nuts in the floor and a hole to bolt the adapter to the aluminum cross pieces to firmly hold everything together.\u00a0 All in all it took me about 7 hours from start to finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n I spent a lot of time looking through books and at different Italian cars online and\u00a0before giving up on figuring out what these seats are from.\u00a0 As I was writing this blog entry I remembered a\u00a0 Sprint project from one of my Market entries that had similar seats.\u00a0 That picture is below.\u00a0 Amazingly enough the seats are late 101 1300\/1600 Sprint seats.\u00a0 Happy Birthday to me!\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0 Sizing up the Sprint seat tracks.\u00a0 Note the distance between the mounting holes in the track is about half an inch longer than the holes in the seat bottom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>The finished assembly:\u00a0 Aluminum cross piece and adapter bolted into the floors captive nuts with the seat track bolted to a threaded hole in the adapter.\u00a0 Good thing there is a drill press in the shop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>A picture of the finished product.\u00a0 The Sprint interior looks pretty good.\u00a0 The door panels are coming apart a little so that is probably the next job I’ll tackle on this car in the years to come…<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Here are the same seats in the project Sprint that was the subject of Market 11<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n
![<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I bought the 1959 Giulietta Sprint a few years back the PO had installed Duetto round tail Spider seats in it.\u00a0 I never really learned to like them so when a pair of unknown Italian, probably Alfa Romeo or Fiat seats in good shape for $300 came up for sale on Craigslist I decided … <\/p>\nContinue reading “1959 Sprint gets new (old) seats”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,79,39],"tags":[103,114,118,151],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interior","category-sprint-abnormale","category-working-on-my-cars","tag-alfa-romeo","tag-cars","tag-classic-cars","tag-italian-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/dashnseats1.jpeg\"){kind=link}