The season is rapidly approaching and we still have a lot of work to do. However, we have recently made some significant progress that has reunited our fire to to get this project finished. One of the big concerns we had was with the seats in the front cab. The ones that came with Carmen had seen better days, so we searched Ebay high and low to try and find suitable replacements, but we weren't having much luck finding seats specifically built for our model Ford. We did however, stumble upon a set of brand new leather seats in grey that were "universal van seats". The color and price were perfect, so we just figured we could make them fit. Turned out we might have been a little ambitious. After several hours of blankly staring at the bottom of the seats and the existing brackets in the cab, we came to the realization that we might have to do some custom fabrication and welding. Turns out, I gotta guy for that.
That guy just happened to be my cousin Dino Ianiro. After a quick discussion of what I was looking for, Dino said he would be happy to help us out. I packed up the seats and headed up to the Cleveland area for Dino to take a shot at them. He even let me have some fun!
Look at those sparks fly!
After a few hours of hard work and maybe an adult beverage, we had one of our seats customized to fit our existing bracket. Dino was even nice enough to keep the other seat and finished it up on his own time as I had to go back to Columbus. When we are cruising around in our comfy new seats we will know who to thank.
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| Here is Dino testing out the new seats! |
