(ET) Seats

["Elie, Larry (L.D.)" <lelie ford com>]

Just a note on seats.

The original ET seats are pretty much all cracked by now.  Vinyl doesn't 
last 30 years well.  Bill has seats that fit, but they aren't the original 
GE logo, and go for as I recall $59 or so plus shipping.  Regular lawn 
tractors seats are nearly as expensive, are one piece, and don't really 
fit.  However, Bill also has a FEW of the wide seats (you can see it on 
the GE accessories brochure) left for $79.  I bit.  I got the wide seat.  
It isn't the greatest quality (it's on plywood, with the vinyl stapled 
on...) but it works real well.  It can easily seat two adults or three 
teens.  My kids wonder why I didn't get it earlier.  It doesn't have the 
classic good looks of a garden tractor but I could care less.  I suppose 
one could adapt a golf cart seat as easily, but this may be the most 
useful attachment I have bought.  A normal garden tractor would not work 
as well here; the transmission hump would be in the way, and they are too 
noisy.  This one is a charmer.  I might even get!
 the canopy, or make one if Bill doesn't have any left.

Larry Elie