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I have been sitting back (pun intended) quietly in a lowback office chair reading all the notes about the seats for T3s and thought I would throw my three cents in. J.L.M. wrote: >I was thinking like, seats from a BMW or something. I too want to upgrade the seats in my 72 Fastback (stock highback seats). I am going to go for a non-stock upgrade since I have a pair of leather trimmed 96 Mustang seats hanging in my garage. These seats have manual lumbar and side bolster adjustment as well as the normal recline/tilt feature. They also have fully adjustable headrests. The problem with any non-stock upgrade is mounting the seats to the body structure. It would be possible to put BMW seats or anything esle for that matter into a VW, provided that they are not too wide. We T3ers have it a bit easier then are bug cousins given the extra width of our rides. Mounting the seat is non-trivial since it is very important should you get in an accident. You don't want the extra weight of the seat trying to push you through the windshield. I will be engineering my mount system for the Mustang seats and would be happy to share the designs with the list when I am done. Just some ramblings. BTW, I will be glad to sell/trade my stock seats when I am done as well.