Hey... I am re-doing my 86" pontiac Grand Prix brougham. I currently have bench seats but want to change to buckets. I know that any gbody seats will work in the front but i want to use buckets in the back also. What will fit???
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As mentioned above, if you decide to try to install bucket seats, like what is up front, in the rear seat area, you're going to have to do some custom fabrication work. The height of the seat backs may prove to be an issue with visibility out the rear window. There's also the issue of what you do with the area between the seats. Do you just have carpet there?-if so, the carpet would have to be molded and fitted to that area of the floor. Keep in mind that with a stock type rear seat, that area isn't covered at all (maybe just some insulation, but no carpet there). Do you try to install some type of console/armrest in that area?-once more, there will be some fabrication involved.
Also as mentioned above, there are a couple of different types of rear seats that can be adapted to fit your car, which feature individual type seating areas, that are separated by an armrest, or armrest/cupholder. If you go to www.montecarloss.com, and look up a member there with the site name of Clutch Grabwell, he has a thread on that site about the modifications that he did to the interior of his Monte SS. He's using newer GTO front seats, and a modified Caddy Eldorado rear seat. It looks pretty cool.
Another option you could try-in 1984 and 1985, Buick offered a seat option in the Grand Nationals, that were made by a company called Lear Seigler. The rear seats with this option are much more contoured that a stock type G body rear seat, and even though it is a bench type seat, it looks much more like a double bucket seat, and is a direct swap into any '78-'88 G body. The only drawback to this, is that very few cars were fitted with this seat option, so these rear seats are extremely hard to find, and generally expensive when you do find them. I managed to find one of these seats, which I had re-upholstered to match the interior in my '84 Monte SS, and it makes the interior of the car look totally different. Like I said, it looks more like a double bucket seat.
Hope this helps.
Also as mentioned above, there are a couple of different types of rear seats that can be adapted to fit your car, which feature individual type seating areas, that are separated by an armrest, or armrest/cupholder. If you go to www.montecarloss.com, and look up a member there with the site name of Clutch Grabwell, he has a thread on that site about the modifications that he did to the interior of his Monte SS. He's using newer GTO front seats, and a modified Caddy Eldorado rear seat. It looks pretty cool.
Another option you could try-in 1984 and 1985, Buick offered a seat option in the Grand Nationals, that were made by a company called Lear Seigler. The rear seats with this option are much more contoured that a stock type G body rear seat, and even though it is a bench type seat, it looks much more like a double bucket seat, and is a direct swap into any '78-'88 G body. The only drawback to this, is that very few cars were fitted with this seat option, so these rear seats are extremely hard to find, and generally expensive when you do find them. I managed to find one of these seats, which I had re-upholstered to match the interior in my '84 Monte SS, and it makes the interior of the car look totally different. Like I said, it looks more like a double bucket seat.
Hope this helps.
Thanx alot... I think im going to use the seats out of a nissan maxima.. A friend of mine has a 87" gp and he used the power and heated seats out of a mscima and it looks great
Sounds pretty cool. Ask your friend how he adapted the Maxima seats to allow them to fit the G body seat tracks, or if he adapted the seat tracks from the Nissan as well. He must have had to run some extra wiring to allow the power and heat functions to operate properly. Any chance of posting some photos of the install in his car? We like photos of that type of thing here. Good luck.
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