rexus31
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Sweet! Mine doesn't have a hole in it though. Does yours Pete?
Rear bench speaker
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Sweet! Mine doesn't have a hole in it though. Does yours Pete?
300rag
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I don't believe so.
That's correct. The boot is always on the car. Lower the top, attache the boot; raise the top, lay the boot covers the back of the seat. The speaker is never seen. Such a plastic cover would be redundant in this car. In fact, I don't recall ever seeing a '69-70 Mopar ragtop with such a cover.
The cover was there on the 69-70 cars. Mine still has the original cover and I've seen them on many others. The cover is there to protect the speaker and cover the top section of the springs.
If you feel you don't need one, that's fine.
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Next time I see another one I'll look. As I said, I've never seen one, or at least noticed it.
View through the rear window. Vinyl well and speaker cover. Without the cover, you would see the rear of the seat frame and speaker.
Not on my car, because the rear boot always stays on. With the top up the boot lays over the back of the seat, effectively hiding the speaker and seat back. I do not have snaps on the back of my seat as you do here. Where is your boot? My rear boot, seen in the picture below, never comes off. I fold it over the seat when I put the top up, and fold it back over the seat once the top is in place. That's why I said a cover like this on my car would be redundant.View through the rear window. Vinyl well and speaker cover. Without the cover, you would see the rear of the seat frame and speaker.
Those aren't snaps. Those are screws with a large washer. The plastic is a little brittle and the holes a bit ragged. At at the time, the repop wasn't available.
The boot is off because of some work I'm doing and removing the rear seat back more than once is easier without the boot in place.
This was just to show exactly what it does. It covers the seat back and speakers as I said. You said you never saw one and I thought I would oblige since I had a camera in my hand.
As I said, you don't have to use one. Your choice. To me, it's a part of the car that was there to protect the speaker and cover the rear of the seat... and I do like some of the original detail that Chrysler did. If nothing else, I know I'd hate to catch a nice boot on a hog ring when I tossed it over the rear.
The boot is off because of some work I'm doing and removing the rear seat back more than once is easier without the boot in place.
This was just to show exactly what it does. It covers the seat back and speakers as I said. You said you never saw one and I thought I would oblige since I had a camera in my hand.
As I said, you don't have to use one. Your choice. To me, it's a part of the car that was there to protect the speaker and cover the rear of the seat... and I do like some of the original detail that Chrysler did. If nothing else, I know I'd hate to catch a nice boot on a hog ring when I tossed it over the rear.
I said I've never seen one on a '69 or '70. I've seen them on older cars.
There are no hog rings on the back that can catch my boot. There is a "wall" that the seat attaches to. The seat back is not not contact with the boot, and cannot be. That wall is where the pump motor is mounted. I need to take some pictures....
The front of the boot attaches to the rear seat and that is my 1970 300.
The back seat hooks on those two hooks and fastens to the brackets sticking up out of the floor. The bar with the hooks is about 3/4 of the height of the seat back and the well liner attaches to the bar. The top motor is hung under that bar also. The top 1/4 of the seat is open. The plastic cover we are discussing covers that top 1/4.
You may be right about the hog rings. I know they are where the cover wraps around the seat frame, but never having recovered this particular car seat, I'm not sure now. The slotted piece that the boot goes in may secure the top of the cover rather than the hog rings like a sedan might have at the top. I thought I had a pic of the seat back.
Excuse the crappy pic. This was a couple years ago while doing some sound deadening.
The back seat hooks on those two hooks and fastens to the brackets sticking up out of the floor. The bar with the hooks is about 3/4 of the height of the seat back and the well liner attaches to the bar. The top motor is hung under that bar also. The top 1/4 of the seat is open. The plastic cover we are discussing covers that top 1/4.
You may be right about the hog rings. I know they are where the cover wraps around the seat frame, but never having recovered this particular car seat, I'm not sure now. The slotted piece that the boot goes in may secure the top of the cover rather than the hog rings like a sedan might have at the top. I thought I had a pic of the seat back.
Excuse the crappy pic. This was a couple years ago while doing some sound deadening.
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Excellent location for the speaker! Is it a little muffled by the seat?
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It's a cheap sub-woofer amp/speaker. The idea was to get just a little more bass in the car, especially with the top down. It works OK, not great, but it helps.
As I said, the pic isn't the greatest, and what it doesn't show (concerning the speaker) is that there is 8-10" clearance between the rear of the seat and the front of the speaker. I was really limited on location and I talked to a couple guys I know that have done serious installations for a living... After laughing at the cheap amp... They said it would be OK and it is. With it all open to the trunk in that area, and since most guys mount their sub-woofer speakers in the trunk, behind the seats, it's good enough for me.
The alternatives that people suggested involved cutting up the stock interior and I wasn't going there.
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