After fucking about with wiring for so long, I got out my welder and grinder and starting whipping up a frame for the BA Falcon bucket seats I've had sitting around yesterday, based on the original bench seat mounts and rails.

Despite the weather being a bit warmer today I managed to finished enough to have both bucket seats in the truck, and most of the drivers side seat belt setup finished. I've got only got to finish the passenger side seat belt arrangement and neaten up and paint the frame.

I spent a fair amount of time getting the blind nuts welded within the RHS tube to allow the frame to bolt onto the original mounts, then the other tricky part was making sure the seats were aligned properly.

The beauty of this setup is that I can refit the bench seat at any time with only 4 bolts. The challenge will be creating a centre console that can suit both the bench seat and bucket seats (with an extra piece) but still looks decent.

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Popped in again to see where things are at with the truck. It's been busier than usual at work so I've not had the chance to get out to see it or chase up progress as much as I would like. While it's not ready take home just yet, there has been progress and it is nearly there.

The bench seat is out, happily sitting in a '56 F100 cab where it's possibly going to stay. The drivers side is now sporting one of the BA bucket seats I scored a while back, tacked in place ready to test the seating position with my arse in it. The Lokar shifter is also in, and I'm glad that I made the right choice on the 16" shaft as it's the perfect fit. When I sat it in, if felt like it was made that - Cam had everything in spot on first go so thankfully there's nothing to move or change.

The wiring is also progressing, making everything legal so that the airbag controls are disabled unless it's in park. Once that's all done and the engine is ready to fire up again, it should be good to go - fingers crossed my next entry has it sitting in the garage.

I also took an opportunity to take a couple of shots of the headers, which look really good.

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I've been keen to turf the bench seat for a pair of buckets, and found a pair of XR seats pulled from a BA XR8 ute. They were frame-less unfortunately, and it took some time before I found another set of seats come up for sale.

I took the frames from the second pair, which include power seats for the drivers side, and attached them to my original pair which were in much better condition. The frames will need some modifications to fit the cab's floor, but should be fairly easy to do.

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