Author Topic: difference between seat foam 70 standard/deluxe and 69 mach 1 high back?  (Read 1638 times)

Offline martin

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I can buy a seat foam from a friend and want to install it on a 69 mach 1 high back seat.

The seat foam is from NPD and suitable for 70 standard/deluxe high back excl. mach 1.

So is there a difference between the 70 standard/deluxe high back and the 69 mach 1 seat ?

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Offline J_Speegle

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Re: difference between seat foam 70 standard/deluxe and 69 mach 1 high back?
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2015, 04:24:20 PM »
So is there a difference between the 70 standard/deluxe high back and the 69 mach 1 seat ?

Location of the seat back release knob as well as the latch locations are a couple of the differences

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Re: difference between seat foam 70 standard/deluxe and 69 mach 1 high back?
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2015, 06:05:24 PM »
According to NPD catalog, there is a difference between 69-70 mach1 and 70 standard high back foam. It was listed as "Economy seat foam" though.

Also, in the NPD catalog, The professional quality/precision molded foam from ACI says 69-70 mach1. There was no listing for 70 standard high back. I couldn't see where seat foam would make a huge difference between 69-70 mach1 and 70 standard high back. Save for the seat latch cutouts between 69-70.  JMO

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Re: difference between seat foam 70 standard/deluxe and 69 mach 1 high back?
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2015, 01:15:44 PM »
Got an answer from NPD.

The bottoms between the 2 are different. They have the listing rods further back on the mach and the rear portion of the lower has a curve that starts out further back. The backs themselves are the same.

So apparently the mach 1 seats differ from the standard on a '70 mustang.
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