"Daytona Look" seats for a 308?

I have seen pics of those style seats in a 308, but didn't save them. Not familiar with any current vendors.

 

Dave,

i think www.gahh.com and/or www.worlduph.com/ferrari.htm can supply those. As for how they look, probably very nice.

 

Doesn't the 288 GTO wanna be replica on EBAY right now have red/black Daytona seats on 308 frames?

 

I think the yellow aluminum 328 had them ......try the vendors listed or Reoriginals can probably get them made for ya!

 

All,

Here are the pictures of my seats, I have taken out the driver's seat and replaced with a Sparco Roadster, found the Daytona Seats to be very uncomfortable, I am in the process of looking for 328 stock black seats.

Cheers,
Rhett
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THERE YOU ARE!!!!

Darn, if only I had a red car to put those in! LOL!

Thanks for posting the photos of them, Rhett.....what exactly makes them "uncomfortable?

Yours may be the only 328 ones in the world, you know...

 

The sides of the seats on the bottom closest to the hip area is quite hard and causes my left leg to go numb.

You are probably right it maybe the only ones in the world, I glanced at the headrest and the Ferrari logo is stamped/embossed, the drivers seat is now covered in two layers of clear plastic bags. I wouldn't even venture to ask what they are worth.

 

Dave, I have been struggling to find the complete history of this car, we know for a fact that the whole body is aluminum, the seats appear to have been special ordered for the car when the first owner purchased the car. This is the only 3X8 car that I have seen that has these seats installed.

As suggested by the other folks, get in touch with Re-originals for their opinion, I cannot say if the Daytona kit will fit. I did poke around the website and those DAYTONA replacement seats are outrageously expensive.

As suggested by BIGTEX my seats are probably the only ones in existence in the world.

Cheers,
Rhett

 

Your car was custom built for long time Ferrari owner, attorney Joe Jamail....as I have heard, a custom factory special, all the way.... see if FoH will share any details of the deal without bothering Joe..., uh...Mr. Jamail!.

 

I have heard it two ways, one as a special order, another version is it was returned after purchase for the aluminum rebody.......any other Houston chatters in the know....

We could have Skizoace here, ask Dahr Jamail, to ask his dad....PM Skizoace......they have dinner together occaisionally.

 

A shame about the pressure point, a good trim shop could maybe adjust foam density....

Those are not Daytona seats man, they are special 328 seats in Daytona trim...I still say Reoriginals could get it done with original Italian vendors, that's the hook up they have!

It'll probably be the same lady that did the others! LOL!

 

Worth?? ebay could tell you...

 

I like the look of the seats. I didn't know you could get a set of one off seats from Ferrari. That does make for great history.

 

If you had his money you could get anything you want, bro....they replaced his wrecked Enzo under warranty!


"It'sa notta supposed to burn lika that, even after smacking the tree!" per FNA

Disclaimer: They are very nice folks, major philanthropists in Texas,...no offense intended......trying to channel a little Mark Twain there, that's all!

Call Reoriginals and I'm sure they can get the seats made ...."Daytona style" is still heavily used in the modern cars......

 

What's amazing is that within 9 hours of the original post - the unobtanium 328/Daytona seat set is posted by it's owner.

 

I knew he was on the site here, wax...

He bought that car at Wilhoit Enterprises in Springfield, MO......same place as my Art Car!

I spoke about it with Micheal Wilhoit on the phone......no one knew what do make of the car, in aluminum, seperated from it's Owner History......
Worse still, he told me if he couldn't sell the yellow car with red/black seats he was gonna say "f**k it" and redye the whole interior solid black!!!!

I'm glad he didn't, but will agree the yellow/red/black was a bit unusual........oh wait, that's the colors on a Pennzoil bottle! LOL!


Now Google Jamail PennzoilTexaco merger failure, multi million dollar court settlement............might have even been billions$$$$...one of those numbers.....

I merge to the right when folks like that come up in my rear view.......

So anyway I am just trying to help here, but knew more than most folks "willing to talk about it".....

I use a melted piece of the Enzo engine block as a paperweight, it ran out on the asphalt and congealed like a natural gold nugget.........

 

Did you see my 185MPH Art Car thread in Texas Section, WAx?

Check that out.....

Another coincidence, a previous owner of my Art Car Ferrari #22127 is our own Vern Cornell!!!!! In Montana.....Small world.......anyway........back to the seats.......

Oh yea, and I grew up, and mom still lives...... at 127 22nd Avenue........

*Twilight Zone music*

 

$7000 according to re-originals who can get either the fixed set back or adjustable one as you have for that price in any color you like. In fact I think they have some yellow/black ones right now with the fixed set back like the original Daytona.

 

Yellow/black???IN STOCK?? I'd like to see those....


For a 308, or a Daytona though?

 

Actually I have done just that: Converted regular 308 seats into Daytona seats.

Despite what websites claim, there is no such thing as a conversion kit/hides in the Daytona style.

288 GTO hides wouldn't work on 308 seats either as the seats are different.

I bought hides (just plain leather ready to be converted into anything) from worlduph.com along with plastic inserts. Those are the stripes with the holes. I had to cut the circles out myself, nice little job while watching TV.

Then I took the 308 seats and the hides to an upholstery shop and showed them some Daytona seat pictures. The rest was up to them to do the conversion. Cost me $ 500 per seat for the job. They stitched the plastic inserts onto the leather. Came out nicely.

I'm still working on the headrests. The easy job would be to just have them upholstered with the new hides, but I really wanted Daytona style headrests as well. I got "blue prints" on how to build those yourself out of wood. My carpenter friend is still working on those (he still has the prints). Eventually I'll take his blocks and the remains of the hides to the upholstery shop as well.

Also I wanted the embossed horsey on the headrests (although original Daytona seats don't have that). There is a place in Canada that actually embosses your leather once you send them a piece of the hide. Very cheap, but came out beautifully.

 

Post a pick of those seats Andreas.

 

Voila.

Note, that I didn't go all the way Daytona with mine: I had the stripes go all the way up. I could have had the arch as it is in the real Daytona but IMHO then you end up with too few of the charisteristic stripes.

Also of course if I had picked red stripes it'd be a lot cooler, but I wanted a black interior entirely as the car's outside is yellow (I think yellow stripes look goolish).

2nd picture is from a friend's headrest project. Since my building blocks are still with the carpenter I can't post any of my pics yet. Daytona style headrests are very complex and in my "kit" they're made of three leather covered parts plus the metal brackets that connect them to the seats. The real trick is to sand the wood blocks in the right pattern. I leave these things to the pros.
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