My four door Skylark has the lovely bench seat and while I like my girl,I think I'd prefer GS buckets and console over the bench.Anyone done this?Can I get some thoughts on it?I'm 5'8" with a 29 inch inseam and I don't have enough leg room with the seat all the way back.Modifying the seat tracks to fit is no big deal.
I'm sure you could do it. The Cutlass Salon offered floor shift and center console in a four-door in 76 and 77 when it was the most popular car in the country.
I'm not to sure I'd do floor shift,unless I could find a bolt in tilt steering column from a manual car or floor shift car.
You can find all you need, It might take a little while, but not too long. My 71 GS was converted (a 71 GS convertible was never available with buckets and console from the factory, except by SCO, which it seems this car did not have), and everything was done right (before I bought it):
That's sweet.I'm eye humping that console.I never seen a Buick center console like that.Most are painted or upholstered that I have seen.
That's the normal stock console and shifter a coupe would have, and it was the only one offered for GS. There was a console but no floor shifter option, but it is extremely rare. My current car, my 69 Riv, actually has one of those.
It's your car I say do what you want!!! I converted my 73 Lesabre to console and buckets from a 73 Riv GS. Used the shifter and all. I was the only Lesabre in the world with it!!! That 5000 lb beast ran 14.00's!!!!
My Skylark was a bench seat car, got a set of buckets off GSFred, used the two existing holes on outside either side and the punched the inside holed and boom done. Make sure they are tight with some nut luck stuff and use good bolts, don't want them breaking and you going into the dashboard or rear seat!
Thanks.I don't know if I have any nut luck left after last night. I know what you mean.If I do this,I'll use grade 8 or better hardware and lock nuts.Thanks for the tip on locating the holes on the inside next to the transmission tunnel.
Just for thought. I remember a friend with a Pontiac Grand Am about a 76 model. It had buckets and console with floor shift. It was a 4 door ht with pillar. There was also a 64 Wildcat 4 door ht in a nearby wreckers with buckets and floor shift console. The seat backs would not swing forward. John
u and I have the same measurements and yes the buckets go far enough backward for me and that is not all the way back. My car is a 2dr ht but that should not matter if the buckets are mounted in the proper location which s/b as in the sedan bench seat.
