boat seats

[gman]

I just bought a 78 baja 16ft for my son,it has no seats,anyone know where I can get two bucket seats or something that will work,boat has two boxes in the front to mount them to,dont want to spend 400.00 on two seats,I only paid 200. for the boat
thanks,gman

[Casey]

gary have you tried academy? thats the frist place i would try, you'll be there anyway picking up my christmas present.

[gman]

what the hell is academy?
gman

[Casey]

ya'll don't have academy's up there in yankee land. it's a sports and outdoors store. kinda like a home depot for hunting, fishing and any other sport you can think of.

[stvhelm]

academy? never heard of it either.

[DaveR]

I've got a catalog at work that sells fiberglass shells for about $25 each. Your local shop can make snap in liners. If your interested I'll post it tomorrow. I think it's "Speedway" or something like that.

[Casey]

there all over the place here in the great state of texas. www.academy.com

[gman]

Hey dave,I am interested post those pics
and those tx boys are soo funny
gman

[Steve Zuckerman]

GMAN,
Surely there is one of the following 4 near you in NC. Boater's
World, West Marine, Overton's, or Bass Pro Shop (Concord Mills,
Concord, NC).
Regards,
Steve

[DaveR]

This is the fiberglass seat shell sold by Speedway Motors. They also have aluminum frames and a lot of different styles - mostly for race cars- a lot of stuff with head braces etc. Pretty cool. But I bought one of these and had a local shop sew up some upolstery. I didn't buy thier cover because it only came in black, and even though I live in Michigan, we do get the occasional sunny day! I really liked it because it's small and narrow enough to fit between the tunnels of my boat. A suggestion would be to buy the upostery and give it to the shop to use as a pattern. I paid more because they had to start from scratch.

Good luck

[gman]

Hey Dave thanks for the pics of seats i will give them a call,and there are alot of boating stores around but they are all soo exspencive 150 and up for one seat, i may have to get one at a time for we are just a bunch of poor ass farmers here in the south
later gman

[DaveR]

Man, I hear ya! You could just paint the shell and upolster them later except the seat surface is not finished in gell, just the outside, so it's not smooth. They are small though, and would look like the right size in a 16' boat. In case the phone numbers been changed, they are in Lincoln Nebraska.

Good luck.

[BarryStrawn]

Speedway is online at http://www.speedwaymotors.com and they have a lot of stuff. Good folks - I used one of their sprint car seats in the Allison 16.

[gman]

thanks,guys for the info. I was hoping that somebody had a pair out of an old checkmate they would work good,anyway maybe by the first of the year I will find a deal on some,I would buy new ones,but I need to get the mrs somthing for xmas,wonder if she would like some boat seats for xmas,hummmm not.
later gman

[H2Onut]

I bought some allison copy seats from TTRITON 50 each they weigh 4lbs without cover.