RUMCars Forum
General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: richard on June 23, 2015, 03:39:55 PM
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I am one very happy bunny ! Just collected my brand new , but traditionally sprung , seat base . The company Wade Spring of Nottingham was recommended in the last Bond Info and I have had one made for the Bond Minicar MK D . It is FABULOUS and at £ 122 inc . I collected it ( £25 for p&p if I needed which I didn't ) pictures will follow - I just didn't know you could still get them done as the old Bond contact ceased trading some time ago .
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Nice one!
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no more sore bum's :o
(post the pictures - they might get another order!)
Alan
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Bond is a comfy car when allowed to be.
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as per original i believe as John Johnson provided his C/D to Wades for reference , they keep a copy of it and i just ordered a Bond Minicar seat
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possibly too many photos but Plas Man , and others , can see the full job .If Bond seats/covers are consistant what a lovely idea taking the covers and padding off a saggy old seat and replacing with a new one - an afternoons work , but surely life cannot be that easy can it :)
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many thanks for sharing the photo's , I wonder if they make the seat back's , it would be better than my 'flat' bum foam effort (ex BMC 1100 rear seat !) , the seat bag and padding is a easy make , as my seat's are one piece leatherette , thus no stitching to snag when getting in and out of the car .
Alan.
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They only had a seat base of johns . They will make any sprung unit but you would have to chat to them about details send me a pm I could give more details . Is the back of the seat a sprung unit as well - if so who has one we could have copied ?
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Just a quicky . The Gordon seats are of this type also and I had base and back remade years ago . I had the Gordon seats recovered and they are really nice but ....... The piping used was a brilliant modern white on the red vinyl , I had always wanted an off white as original . Sounds picky but they really don't look that "period " - any ideas on how to turn brilliant white plastic piping into off white ? That is other than ageing it in the sun forever .
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This may sound like a silly reply but try masking the seat and painting it using acrylic paint through an airbrush. I changed the colour on some vinyl trim on a Jag XJS that way when I couldn't get a match.
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Well it's an idea I hadn't thought of ! Hmmm thanks . Part of the problem is that I always pictured the car in Old English White and the clash is awful . Thanks , something to consider . Bob would have it of course that if I had left them in the sun since I had them recovered they would be aged naturally by now !! ;D
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£122 does sound like superb value - maybe if I was a spring maker, I would say it was the going rate, but that looks like good value to an amateur.
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Well it's an idea I hadn't thought of ! Hmmm thanks
Well I did say it might sound a bit silly. ;D
I only used it when I needed to replace a centre console in a car with dark blue trim and none could be found, it was sort of an emergency, s**t or bust type bodge but it did work and the paint stayed on. I appreciate it might be a harder job on a bit of piping.
Dye would be hard to get onto the piping itself without leaching onto the main seat material. And I don't know how well a dye would work on vinyl.
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whilst on business in Morecambe this week, Hi-di-hi Bonders , I saw a skip and associated rubbish by the side of the road and wondered as you do , how easy would it be to make ones own car seat from a discarded mattress ?
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I'm no expert but I would imagine the construction of a mattress would be quite different from car seat. Besides, you may fall asleep on it! ;D
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I don't think the springs would have been thick/resistant enough anyway but am I alone I cannot pass a skip without having a shufty ;)
( another weekend with best of intentions but awful rain like last Sunday , but quite against the forecast )
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am I alone I cannot pass a skip without having a shufty
Definitely not alone! When we had a wood-burning stove, we used to get a lot of free heat from skips ...
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couple of weeks ago house up the street had new concrete floor , the newish wood floor was ripped out and skipped with same day removal/incinerate orders - but along came the skip rats and the newish timbers went with them , when the guy came for the skip the joiner was on hand and remarked that the floor was ripped out because of dry rot !!!
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Dangers of timber with a lot of sapwood and not traditionally seasoned.
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whilst on business in Morecambe this week, Hi-di-hi Bonders , I saw a skip and associated rubbish by the side of the road and wondered as you do , how easy would it be to make ones own car seat from a discarded mattress ?
mm, at Morecambe are they still using the bus shelters as mausoleums' ;D
back to the seat how's about a cot mattress (or 2 ) ?
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A Morris Minor Travellor back seat fits a Mk D very well, but looks wrong. How about starting with a sprung car seat, cutting away springs at lower back and sides, until it fits, then recovering the lot, with the Bond-style vinyl and stitch pattern?
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weii I have this new base now but still have to make a rear backrest , I think I have the measurements still ,where on earth would you find a sprung car seat to work on