Chest Restraint
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The Torino gets some custom one of a kind seats. Being a convertible we are starting with Chrysler Sebring seats with the retractable seat belt system originally made for a convertible. A set of used seats were purchased from a parts car as they are not sold new from the dealer only parts are available.
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The bottoms have the adjusting rod on the passenger side and fully powered on the driver seat.
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We want to remove the double hump look from the seat so we start by running some rod to re-shape the outer section of the head-rest in to a single shape.
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Once we welded the rod to the factory brackets we installed webbing on and around the steel and on to the next step.
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We also added extra foam to the inside section of the seat to make it more symmetrical side to side.
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We mocked up a vinyl cover to get a look at what she will become and make our patterns. A little tweaking is needed to remove all the wrinkles.
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The back side is the same, a bit of tweaking.
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Side angle shows she is pretty close, with a few changes a nice seat will appear.
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The final seat looks good covered in base ball glove materials. We have to dye the belt loop and install the seat belt and she will be ready.
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Looking good, time to build the passenger seat.