My '46 2 ton sat in a field for many many moons (25+ years) and has been the home to just about every mouse within a 10 mile radius, it would appear.

The seat is just trashed. I considered stripping them bare, then getting them re-done.. but that is probably gunna cost a ton o' cash that I would rather spend elsewhere in the trucks restoration.

So I was thinking maybe I could score an inexpensive bench seat out of a vehile at the local bone yard.. i'd like to get something that would fit with minimal modification/rigging and at least LOOKS like something you'd expect to see in a truck of this vintage. (i.e. no blue cloth seats with MOPAR embroidered on 'em)

I've read in a few areas that folks have used s10 seats in 50's trucks.. I dunno if the 50's seats were the same general size as the '41-'46 trucks.

So anybody here have any ideas as to what sort of donor vehicle I should keep my eye out for?

I'm not opposed to re-doing the original seats, so if anybody has some "low budget" home brew methods of re-doing the original seat, i'm all ears.

an idea is only stupid if you think about it rationally.