I got 4th gen seats for my Maro about a month ago and i've had my old ones laying around my apartment. I was planning to put my old front seats in my truck cause it's my daily driver and the bench seat is uncomfortable. The rears I was gonna make a mild attempt to sell or give to a friend but now im thinking i might just throw them away. My friend at work strongly advised me to not throw'em away that i should keep them for when the car is a collector. I dont know what to do with them.. any advice?

 

Give or sell them to someone who has a Camaro. If you are not going to use them, no sense having them taking up space unless you have a place out of the way to store them. Put them on the classifieds on this website. Better to have them used than just thrown away. Badman

 

i agree. I'd make the room to keep them if its really a pivital thing though

 

Keep them. At least keep the back ones since the 4th gen rears don't fill the space out correctly. As long as you have space it's always best to keep your options open. Ideally it would be nice to recover the original seats someday.

 

Personally, I'd pitch them. They're a dime a dozen in the yards--and there are thousands of them.

JamesC

 

I guess it would pivot on the condition. NICE ones are hard to find any more in the junkyards. Crappy ones are all over. In 10 years you won't find them any where. 10 years ago I could have had my pick of great condition seats.

John

 

true...if keeping the car think of the future..these cars are going to disappear right before your eyes..as the 1st and 2nd gens did

 

If you store them, indefinitely, with no immeadiate plans to put them back into the car, I can almost guarentee by the time you get back to them they won't be in as good condition as you remembered. Besides that seats take up a lot of space.

FWIW Up until a few months ago, I had about 5 sets of seats, some that had been stored since 1995. I threw away all except a pair of mint GTA seats because they just weren't worth the trouble.

 

True that,
We part cars and maybe two times out of fifty do we find a good pair of untorn seats, keep them if they are nice.

 

I find it amazing how short sighted people can be, I am not referring to any one here and I am not trying to twist tails. But when you consider that when Gas was $3 a gallon and the Hybreads were all the hype, and now that Gas as receded to around $2 SUV's are now the big seller.

In the same vein we cant live life so short seighted that we toss it "just because." If you have no room or if it is in poor condition thats one thing, but just to toss them is another thing altogether.

To be honest the car in question I assume is an RS, and honestly an RS will have a hard time competing for the spotlight like a Z28, and to be really honest the car will probably not have the value if it was a 350 car or a Convertible. But it does have a V8, unfortunately it is the LO3 was really underpowered in stock form, it was not a huge improvement over the early 80's LG4, but it does get better milage.

On the whole, I think if you have a nice set of seats I would try and sell them on ebay. I got $100 for a pair of nice Black rear seat backs, no bottoms. If the seats are in exceptional condition I highly doubt that you would have removed them for a set of 4th gen seats, but you might have wanted leather or something else.

If there is nothing wrong with them then keep them, but if they are trashed then sell them or trash them.

John

 

well.... the seats arent in that good of condition, the one has cigarette holes in it and I dont really see anyone hopin on them to buy'em. Shipping them would suck and id prefer avoiding that route. so i dont see that being so short sighted.

Even though it aint a Z its still the last of the third gens so in some respect I think it doesnt matter so much, but thats my 2 cents.

I think i will hold on to them unless someone i meet needs a set or till i no longer care for their future.

 

I agree. Hold on just incase you need them in the future.

As far as RS vs the world of thirdgens. The '92 was the last thirdgen and eventually all will be wanted. Look at the firstgen. At this point very few are worrying about what it came with under the hood. All first gens are worth money. It will be the same for thirdgen '92 RS'. In fact I bet a mint factorystock '92 can become as colectible as any other car. Everyone does not want the biggest fastest cars. Some people wll want to see how these cars came from the factory-in all forms-fast, mediumn and slow. It will just take time.

 

It's not very expensive to re-foam and reupholster seats from the 1st gens, it probably won't be that expensive for 3rd gens in 30 years... Unless the seats were immaculate I would find it to be little use to keep them around. In bad condition they're really not worth the space they take up.

 

The only reason why the 69 Camaro & Firebird are a little more sought after is they had some very special things going that year, 1) the styling of the 69 s different than the 67 & 68, 2) When GM finally decided to put in some special engines the COPO cars really took off, its like the Aluminum block ZL1 camaro, it was big, it was bad and if you have it then your lucky, the motor was intended for race use, to win on sunday and sell on monday,. I guess if you had to make a comparison it would be like the 91 & 92 Firehawk and what it can potentially do for the firebirds, it will push the saleability of 91 & 92 Firebirds up. Unfortunately the Camaro did not have a similar offering, I guess you could consider the Decal package for the Heritage cars, but I still can't see why that is such a huge selling point. they look great, but there was nothing else done to the car. Or I guess you could consider the SLP package offered by dealers back in the day.

From a certain point of view your correct, they are all worth money, but the ones with the big engines are worth a whole lot more. I could have purchased a 68 for $2000, back in 01, it was a nice car AND it had a 396 ... I should have bought it.
Very true, our cars have a lot of potential for gaining value and as we speak low miles nice cars are selling at auction for about what they were new. Considering inflation they were not a good investment yet. NO car is a good investment for that matter but thats a different argument. THe point is get the cars which have the most potential, RS's. base firebirds, base Formulas, Trans AM's & Z28's with the base LO3 or LG4, will struggle to meet the potential of the TPI cars. THe TPI has all the angles, it gets better economy AND better performance, what a deal.
But 90% of buyers really do. THere is a larger market for those "fast" cars than those which are lacluster, a 64 AMC rambler convertible is no where near as valuable as a 65 GTO converitble...
There will be an apex in value in about 20 years, thats when the values of these cars will hit thier high, 10 years ago it was the late 50's cars getting all the attention, now its the late 60's and early 70's cars, in 10 years it will be the early 80's cars (possibly) and in 20 years it will be the early 90's cars. From a histircal perspective thats the trends right now.

John

 

I'd keep the seats. Hell, if you're handy with woodworking, or even have a friend who wouldn't mind a project, make 'em into a couch. It's what I plan to do with mine. Just build a little couch with 'em so you can unbolt them and put them back in the car if you choose.