611 Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 Just thought i would share this as quite pleased with how the interior looks with the new seats 🙂  Andy Project images are available to Club Members Only, Click to become an OMOC Member. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-400 Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 They look great Andy, am also looking at those tiny "B pillars" of your car. Those days you could look all the way around and not as modern cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Barrett Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Look good in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
611 Posted June 21, 2021 Author Share Posted June 21, 2021 2 hours ago, Paul Barrett said: Look good in there. Just the outside to tackle now when the summer comes back 🙂 On 20/06/2021 at 23:06, H-400 said: They look great Andy, am also looking at those tiny "B pillars" of your car. Those days you could look all the way around and not as modern cars. Herman, im not sure you can class them as pillars!! I think the glass has more strength than those!! But as you say it does give you a nice view without much to get in the way. I saw a German one and he had made it so you could wind the window and pillar down into the rear quarter! a bit like some American cars. That would be great on a sunny day with all the windows down 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Barrett Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 On 21/06/2021 at 23:34, 611 said: Just the outside to tackle now when the summer comes back 🙂 Herman, im not sure you can class them as pillars!! I think the glass has more strength than those!! But as you say it does give you a nice view without much to get in the way. I saw a German one and he had made it so you could wind the window and pillar down into the rear quarter! a bit like some American cars. That would be great on a sunny day with all the windows down 🙂 I looked into that so much to make it work, god knows how they managed it as there is so little room to drop the glass into the quarter with a mechanism. looked at Mk4 escort cabriolet mechs but don’t drop the full way. also a BMW setup but the mech too big to house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutty2006 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Nice seats! What are they out of? And are they comfy? I just can’t seam to find any decent seats for the manta. I want Sierra 3 door recaros but they cost more to buy than it would to buy the mantas again. Also looked into monza seats but again, can’t find any and those I can find have Ford tax applied. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
611 Posted June 23, 2021 Author Share Posted June 23, 2021 3 hours ago, Paul Barrett said: I looked into that so much to make it work, god knows how they managed it as there is so little room to drop the glass into the quarter with a mechanism. looked at Mk4 escort cabriolet mechs but don’t drop the full way. also a BMW setup but the mech too big to house. Im not sure, whish i had paid more attention at the time and tried to work out how they did it, but at the time i just thought "Ooh, that's quite cool" and didnt think much more about it. Im not sure if it might have been a custom setup, i remember see ing the winder handles in the back so it must have been a proper setup of some kind. I suppose you would have to just have the runner on the pillar side. I wonder how the Yanks do it on their ones? 3 hours ago, Sutty2006 said: Nice seats! What are they out of? And are they comfy? I just can’t seam to find any decent seats for the manta. I want Sierra 3 door recaros but they cost more to buy than it would to buy the mantas again. Also looked into monza seats but again, can’t find any and those I can find have Ford tax applied.  3 hours ago, Sutty2006 said: Nice seats! What are they out of? And are they comfy? I just can’t seam to find any decent seats for the manta. I want Sierra 3 door recaros but they cost more to buy than it would to buy the mantas again. Also looked into monza seats but again, can’t find any and those I can find have Ford tax applied. They are Cobra Le Mans Reclining Sport Seats and i bought them new as i had the same problem as you trying to find any decent second hand ones at a reasonable price. Cost £400 each, so not cheap but well worth it. They are super comfy. A slightly different sitting position that the Dayton's i had in there before. Im well happy with them and selling the Datona’s will cover at least a 3rd of the cost. And i think they fit the car better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutty2006 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Ouch. Yeah 800 for a pair of seats is nuts, I just don’t see where the cost comes from, to be completely honest.  these are the ones I want, but still expensive. Project images are available to Club Members Only, Click to become an OMOC Member.  but at £450 it’s a lot of hard earned Wonga! Then there’s these monza GSE seats, saving of 50 quid over the Ford seats. Project images are available to Club Members Only, Click to become an OMOC Member.  ive had a few different sets of seats in my hatch. Aston Martin full leathers there comfy but heavy, and sat too high up for me. Sold them and put Honda CRX sport seats in, they were light as a feather but the base was slightly slopped because of the floor in the CRX so both seats slopped into the centre of the manta. Only slightly but got annoying. I’m back on the GTE seats now, but they don’t match. Ones a GTE seat and ones an exclusive seat 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
611 Posted June 24, 2021 Author Share Posted June 24, 2021 18 hours ago, Sutty2006 said: Ouch. Yeah 800 for a pair of seats is nuts, I just don’t see where the cost comes from, to be completely honest.  these are the ones I want, but still expensive. Project images are available to Club Members Only, Click to become an OMOC Member.  but at £450 it’s a lot of hard earned Wonga! Then there’s these monza GSE seats, saving of 50 quid over the Ford seats. Project images are available to Club Members Only, Click to become an OMOC Member.  ive had a few different sets of seats in my hatch. Aston Martin full leathers there comfy but heavy, and sat too high up for me. Sold them and put Honda CRX sport seats in, they were light as a feather but the base was slightly slopped because of the floor in the CRX so both seats slopped into the centre of the manta. Only slightly but got annoying. I’m back on the GTE seats now, but they don’t match. Ones a GTE seat and ones an exclusive seat 😂 It is a lot of cash. I should get £300 for the old ones so it makes them £500 the pair which is not much more than those second hand ones and unless you can go and see them your never 100% sure what they are going to be like until they turn up. Decided i would spend the money on them and paint the car myself, saving loads on not having a body shop rip me off!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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