Before

The seat, before removal of the skins.

Passenger Seat?

Here is the other seat. I think it's the passenger seat, based on its better condition.

Bottom's Up

Look at the bottom. The diaphragm is mostly gone, exposing the foam bottom.

Clips

These clips hold the skins to the seat frames. One odd little clip here...

Closer View

Toward the front of the seat bottom.

Pulling Skin

The seat skin side coming off.

Cover

This batting covers the front foam wrap-around. I'm not sure why there's two layers. Maybe this cover acts as a shear layer, to prevent the seats from squeaking a lot due to foam to seat cover friction.

Cover Off

The seat cover is off the bottom of the seat.

Back Clips

More clips along the back.

Stripped Bottom

The bottom is out.

Frame Front

The frame from the front, minus coverings. It seems that some adhesive was used to hold the padding in place while putting the covering on.

Back Cover

Here is the back padding with the cover off. Once the metal in the tails is straightened out, the cover just works up and off the padding.

Padding

Here's a close shot of the padding, from the back.

Tucked

The cotton batting is tucked on this one side. I don't know why.

Glued On

The padding, again, is glued on. Amazingly, after almost 40 years, the glue was still tacky!

Back Diaphragm

The back diaphragms are in pretty good shape, but not what I'd call servicable.

Rings

Just a shot of the back to show locations of the hog rings (really, these are not "rings", but that's the only thing I know to call them).

Stripped Frame

The frame is pretty bent out of shape. I'll need to do some metal straightening, and then treating for rust, before paint and re-covering.

Other Seat

In starting the passenger seat, I noted that the two hog rings on the back side of the seat diaphragm are connected to the seat back (something I didn't know because of the condition of the other seat).

Bottom

Once I removed the bottom diaphragm (in better shape than the one on the other seat, but still unservicable), the foam cushion was exposed.

Corner Shot

I just wanted this shot to show the interface of all the parts in the corner where the back meets the bottom. I want it to look right when I put it all back together!

Back Clips

I started by removing the back this time, confirming my theory. Here are the layers, with the clips removed.

Back Padding

This seat had the batting all the way around the perimeter. Odd how one seat was padded one way, and the other an other way! Of course, I'll probably do a little customizing myself, when I put it back together.

Bottom Layers

Here are the layers of the seat bottom (just for re-assembly purposes).