993 restoration

[Darren65]

.......So, I will sit on these (metaphorically) and consider them my pension. ........

.....will they fit in a 73?

[Ferry Man]

When it comes to seats for a 993 the hot ticket is ‘hardbacks’.

These are the seats I will fit in my car.
I got them for a pretty good price after haggling the cost down because they didn't have runners with them.
I guessed a set of genuine rails from Porsche would be £600? Maybe £750? Needless to say they proved to be even more than that. Which is scandalous.
But anyway I'm delighted with these seats. They are in superb condition.

[Ferry Man]

They are actually the very rare 'RS' version of the hardbacks. By which I mean they don't have the 4-way electric seat adjustments.
The motorised adjustment was deleted (to save weight) on the RS cars.
These seats came from an RS where the owner decided to change over to racing buckets. Apparently they were removed at 7,000km and stored.
I can believe it, they are like new.

[Ferry Man]

One seat is absolutely perfect, the other has just the slightest of creasing in the leather, just enough for you to believe they have been used.
I can tell that they came from a LHD car. The right seat is unmarked.
Strictly speaking they really are too good to use in this car, they should be in an RS, but hey, they will look superb!

[Ferry Man]

I'll be stripping them apart and painting the backs in Mexico Blue.

[inaglasshouse]

Hi Paul,
Those seats are a very nice buy, well done.
In the absence of the electric adjustment, how does one change the height? And indeed the relative height front and back? (I tend to use my hardbacks with the front fully up and the back fully down, to give a bit of under-thigh support).
BTW ping me if you fancy a meet-up of the Farnham DDK chapter!
Cheers, Richard.

[Tp81]

Nice seats. WOW. Were they from Ebay?

[210bhp]

I would find it hard to paint them they are so lovely and original and rare.......

I think I would be wrapping them instead in Mexico blue just in case I ever wanted the original colour back.

Oops, too late, probably they are already painted.

Regards
Mike

[KS]

Knowing Paul, the car was finished a year ago and he's already started another project.

[Bootsy]

Knowing Paul, the car was finished a year ago and he's already started another project.

Be great if he has and started mine for me

[murph2309]

Paul - really enjoying seeing another non-longhood resto, thanks for sharing. It looks like you're having a lot of fun with that. I also must confess I share Mike's queasiness at painting those rare seats.....but it's yours and all that.

Car's going to be cool when it's done

[sladey]

Queasiness! pussies! get em painted

[Ferry Man]

I would find it hard to paint them they are so lovely and original and rare.......
I think I would be wrapping them instead in Mexico blue just in case I ever wanted the original colour back.

Yeah, I thought I'd be hearing that from you Mike.
Largely because I'd been having those thoughts myself.
I did investigate the wrapping option but the colours weren't close enough.
So, I will be painting them. The metallic black is painted on so it would be possible to return to original if someone ever wanted to.

Queasiness! pussies! get em painted

Plus I did think, I've bought these with the intention of painting them, so, that's what I'll do, loads of folk paint hardbacks and don't give it a second thought. I'm going to make them look lovely and use 'em.
At least Mark will still talk to me....
Like I said at the outset - as far as the cognoscenti are concerned - I'm ruining a perfectly good car. And now I'm ruining good seats too.

[964RS]

The metallic black is painted on so it would be possible to return to original if someone ever wanted to.

Not really. They can only be original once.

But hell they're your seats....do what you like with them, they are not in the original car anyway now....

[Ferry Man]

I would find it hard to paint them they are so lovely and original and rare.......

I also must confess I share Mike's queasiness at painting those rare seats.....

They can only be original once....

I'm sorry if I've offended anyone.
I am reminded how difficult it can be putting a restoration on-line for such public scrutiny.
Those who contribute to these restoration threads probably experience moments when they wonder why.