Ford Seat Finale

     The story of theFord seats can come to its conclusion now.  The front seat went to Ohio and the rear seat went to Kentucky, shipped by Greyhound after a few days waiting on the “dock” in Hays, Kansas.

     The seats have been reupholstered and installed in their new bodies.  The front seat went from this:

 

to this

 

 

where it joined this

 

  

and was installed in this

 

 

     The seat and the work was a gift from two brothers to their father.  Father was driving a similar car when he was courting their mother.  While this Ford isn’t THE Ford the couple honeymooned in, the sign is the original.

 

    The family has owned the car for awhile and has been improving it all along.  Addition of the new front seat and new upholstery is the latest upgrade.  It looks pretty nice to me.

 

Meanwhile, the rear seat went to Kentucky.  It went from this

     

to

 

 installed in this

 

 

where it joins this

 

 

 

   While it was necessary to take the front seat down to the springs, the upholsterer of the rear seat left Mom’s Montgomery Ward seat cover job in tact and used it for the base for the new upholstery.      

      Both Fords are coupes, which my Kentucky seat purchaser tells me came in two varieties, a club coupe with a back seat, and a business coupe with cargo space instead of a back seat.  Hmmmm.  I’ll bet that in young-man think, you couldn’t do much business without a back seat.

      Well anyway, the seats have gone from the 2-door sedan to their new homes in coupes via a 50 year tour of duty in a school house-turned farm shop.  Here’s wishing them another 63 years.  

      Take a lesson from the Ford seats and their new owners.

    Sign your organ-donor card now.