Scorpion seats into a GD Galant hardtop?

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Scorpion seats into a GD Galant hardtop?

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Can it be done??

I managed to score a decent set of seats from a scorpion for the low low price of nothing. now since they are in great nick i was thinking maybe they could have a home in the GD hardtop for a while, only problem is.... Will they fit, has anyone else tried this, before i do something stupid and waste my time ect. ect.

Any help would be appreciated
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I am going to be doing the same thing. Have the seats out of my GC but not out of the Scorpion. If it doesn't rain tomorrow I will see if they fit.
Out of interest, what model Scorpion are your seats from?
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I have no idea, i was told at a car meet the other night to come pick them up by the end of the week or they go to the tip, so first chance i got i went and got them, he said they are from a scorpion and thats all i know, i would say earlier model as they are completely vinyl, no cloth centers ect. i will post a pic when i get a chance to pull them out of their wrapping properly
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No Scorpions were completely vinyl.
Chuck a pic up so we can see :)
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hmm fair enough, ill go grab a pic, i hope they fit, if i dye them black they wont stand out and they will be comfy as fark, but wont look as cool as the original hardtop seats
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So turns out the rear seats (that were wrapped completely in plastic and covered in years of debris from a fabrication shop) are different from the fronts. not going to complain since they were free :P
But heres some pics
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The fronts look kind of luxo if im not wrong.
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Not 100% on the rears, looks like GC/D Galant but recovered. But the fronts are Sigma.
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id say the rears are sigma aswell, the GD ones dont extend over the wheel arch like this, in the GC-GD im pretty sure the wheel arch protrudes past the seat with just a simple vinyl cover and minimal padding. well, i might skip on putting them into the hardtop, but i might look into fitting the fronts into the GA, sigma seats should fit galants right? i would think so especially since the early models shared alot of their floorpan design with the galants (obviously i will be swapping the rails over)
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Yeah, they won't flip forward :(
Forgot about the wheel arch thing, you're correct.
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yeah which is a bugger, wonder how hard it will be to match the cloth used on my hardtop seats, i know cloth isnt a popular choice when recovering seats, but the pattern on these just looks awesome, and also matches the door cards :P
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just use your custom seat rails!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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shoosh you :lol:
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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I want to see the "custom" rails
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:lol: heres start!
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but it gets worse/funnier :lol:
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MMMM, Safe and stylish :think:
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lol what... they are custom arent they :lol: probably one of the dumber things ive done. the seat actualy became detached from this one morning when i got out of the car at work, luckily work is only 2klm down the road.
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:lol:
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Man, i have done so much dodgy shit in that car, im surprised i wasn't caught. for the first 6 months i drove it, it was blowing black smoke everywhere, then when i fixed that it was blowing oil everywhere, once i did the manual conversion i drove it around for a week or so without any form of a shifter boot, just an ugly hole down to the gearbox and road, and also the above seat. and thats all i can remember, sure ive done other stupid stuff in it :P

EDIT: it also had an issue with stalling at the lights while it was an auto, and coupled with a bad starter motor means there was a few weeks/months where i would occasionally have to jump out in traffic with a massive spanner, open the bonnet and give the starter motor a flogging, get back in, start her up and drive away :lol:
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*cough* pedal *cough* assembly!! *cough* :lol:
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*cough* Shuddup *cough* :lol:
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