I removed the front seats as I'm re-carpeting and soundproofing the datsun, when I removed them i realised that the previous owner had bodged the fitting, which had me puzzled, when I went to put them back in I realised that the rail mounts are too short from point to point, hence the bodged fitting, but the seats look like Datsun seats have the head rests etc the same underneath as the pics on the wiki, and the rails look the same, colour function lever position etc, and I'm like wtf ?

So the seat rails are from mount point to point 300 mm and the floor mounts 320mm, what the heck are they out off? and has anyone got two sets of front seats rails for sale?

The car is a datsun 1200 sedan, see avatar.

Are you measuring these dimensions?

yup the ends had been bent in, but the mounting points are 320 apart, unless I bolt the seat rail to the inside of the front chasis mount thus the seat doesnt hook over the mount point, I'm confused, lol, I'll photo the seat with the measuring tape and the floor, back in a sec

It's a work in progress, luckily though there's a datsun wagon at work so i can get bits off that, thats where the console came from

you can see where the previous owner has removed the top part of the chasis mount to fit the seat the wrong way, and yes it's the same both sides , but on the driver side i think he used a sledge, a*@$!. just more to fix

Bummer. I wonder if the brackets were welded to the floor incorrectly?

I've only measured one, so it might not be correct, but I measured 310 mm. Your photo shows 320 mm.

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Must be a 120y wagon at work as that's a b210 console.

Did the sedan ever have after market seats? Should be easy enough to weld done plate on there to replace cut outs. Not like it's thick metal

all i know about the sedan is that the lady who owned it (now deceased) lived in Clunes, kept it serviced and rego'd, but couldnt drive herself, it was her husbands car and he died 10 years previously, it was her nephew (60+) who inherited it and sold it to me for $867.50, he lived in swan hill, and I drove it back using 3/4's of a tank of fuel. He did say over the phone he'ld adjusted the seats to suit me being a tall person, and had put in the radio from his old gts holden so i had listening music but thats it. It originally had 12 inch wheels with the hubcaps, and the rest is as it the picture shows. the touch bar apparently had a hessian water bag hung on it as new from the dealership, but it could all be a tale told to me by the nephew in swanhill

so buy universal rails? or try and fudge it back the way it was?

See what the wagon at work has otherwise there was a guy in here that made the seat rails like the ones yours were chopped.

Swan hill, lucky he didn't have a buck tooth daughter for you to marry or for him to try and shorten your legs