How to Restore Your Tiger’s Seats, part 4

Joe Parlanti

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Reassembly

There are several pieces of hardware which are needed to complete the project. I cleaned everything up; powder coated what I could, and assembled them in this photo:

The only thing I replaced were the bolts which hold the seat sliding mechanism to the bottom frame as they are standard SAE hardware. Everything else is rather specialized and next to impossible to find. In fact, I learned at the United event also that the 2 long flat head screws are in fact Whitworth threads, the only non SAE fasteners on the car. That would explain why I couldn’t find anything to match them. Here are a series of shots showing how everything goes together. No magic here; as the manuals always say: "Reassembly is the reverse of disassembly"

 

 

You’re Finished! Hopefully this has been a satisfying experience and has yielded a set of seats that look original and professionally done, and best of all you can say that you did it yourself.

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