Re: [Amc-list] Happy New year! (63 440H odd rear seat -- not!!)

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

Are you missing the big rear arm rests? Does the bottom seat cushion have a gap between the side and cushion also? The large armrests came about 6" out from the sides into the lower cushion with a mating "notch" in the upper cushion. They are basically vinyl covered cardboard (same material as original door panels, IIRC), so didn't always fair well. Should be an ash tray in top of each one. All 440Hs got them. The back cushion was unique to the 440H (notches cut in frame of sedan cushion), the bottom cushion was shared with the convertible. Sedan cushions fit and you won't be able to get your arm through to the back then! Someone in AMO had a pattern to make new arm rests, don't recall who though. Will enquire if you need them. I had a 440H back seat in one of my sedans years ago, took it from a 440H parts car that the floor was rusted completely out of (still have the shell with no seats or glass down in the woods! PO used it as a chicken coop for years!!). 

Put some more pics of the car up on your site, especially the interior! Would really like to see before/during/after photos. 

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The rear interior deck was the only thing I did oddly; I cut aluminum sheet 
to fit, and installed it with spray-foam insulation. The frame underneath 
is an odd shape so that solved that; but also there's no sound, heat or 
fume insulation between the trunk and interior at all. I'm going to make a 
3/8" plywood panel to seal behind the rear seat, and will fill the 
surprisngly big gaps to the side of the rear seat upright and the trunk; 
you can stick your arm into the trunk from the back seat! It was designed 
and build that way. Odd.

-- 
Frank Swygert
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