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I want some of these for my K5.....

I remember years ago a company called Vision Research did a seat that was more or less a true suspension seat ( had shocks etc).

I knew a guy that had them, they were wonderful. Like truly amazing.

Of course they were expensive and so they went out of business.

I wish they were still around though, the difference was truly amazing and it didn't fell too weird because they didn't have a ton of movement, enough to make the ride way nicer though
 
yeah, I caught a ride in this thing, they do wonders for a boat... they have like 5, 6"s of travel... been seeing a lot of repo hotrods lately.. actually we've been seeing a lot of repo's across the board...



I do remember back 25 yrs ago building this kinda stuff



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with the air ride seats.... hmmm, wonder why they wouldn't be viable in an offroad rig.. other than a bit more bulk.. iirc, they worked pretty good...
 
Most tractor trailer cabs have suspension seats, and are a must for long travel, not new technology here...but still a good theory, although seat seams very shallow
 
would sure make things more comfortable, but during any sort of obstacle you'd want some way to lock it out too. seems like having a steady position in relation to the pedals would be the paramount concern at that point.
 
I was bumbed. I though you were going to show 4 blown 572 in it.

Have been in those seats. So much better than standing in rough seas at 100 mph.
 
Hey ryoken, is that a heavy wrecker?? That was 25 yrs ago? I think that was cool back then, more so now. It has old school cool! I miss running a heavy hook...
 
that's about 1986, 87.... here's the rig from a distance.. I was pretty proud of that job... did all new cab sheetmetal, etc...





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Cool!! Looks like an Autocar with a Holmes 750. I cut my teeth on a 750. Neat to see history. Sorry for the hijack.

I have thought about airride seats in a Chevy lots of times. If the vertical travel was limited more than in big trucks, it may work. I used to tighten down the safety srtaps going to the seat to limit uptravel so I could use more pressure in the airbag for the seat to keep from bottoming out on big dips. That only works in trucks that the limiting straps go down obviously. Kenworth does this. Internationals and some others make the straps go backward to the cab wall. Anyway, most of the stock truck seats have too much travel for our K-trucks and would need some limiting that was not too harsh, IMO.

I just thought I might add some info to make up for my hijack for pics!
 
eh, not much to hijack this thread.. i just thought those stidd seats where amusing/interesting...




and yeah, Autocars.. freakin loved building those.. great cabs, I could have one reskinned in a couple days...

unlike all the old Macks... cool looking cabs, but rotboxes that required crazy sheetmetal repair.. not like the autocars where'd you'd cut out the whole back or something...

than ya had all the Mack fiberglass noses... I musta fixed a hundy busted up crashed ones while there.. thats the shop i cut my teeth in. learned a f*ckton...

here's a couple more pics from there..

my first box...



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our bread and butter... 300 of these on a rotating resto schedule... job security...



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in addition to dozers, loaders, triaxles, planes, yada....



here's a 63 Buick wildcat i did there..



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