Calling the Seat Experts

[SanoDano]

Gentlemen,

I have what I believe to be a stock 1957 Ford bench seat in my '57 Courier.  The seat looks right and the seat rails bolt up just fine to
the stock mounting points.

My question has to do with the metal left and right seat skirts or end panels.  Every 1957 Ford that I have seen in person or in pictures has
seat skirts that look like the one at the left  in the photo.  The seat skirts that came in the box of parts with  my Courier looks like the one on the
right in the photo.  Each side is made of of two pieces that fasten to the seat frame with metal screws.  They fit up to the seat correctly.

Did Ford make two types of seat skirts in 1957?  Is perhaps my seat and the two piece seat skirts from some other make or model?  Do I have something really really rare
and incredibly valuable?

I actually would prefer to use the larger and more commons seat skirt but I do not have the brackets to attach them to the seat frame.  If anyone has any
spare brackets laying around in the parts bucket I would be interested.  Even a picture would help if I decide to fabricate some.

Thanks to all the seat experts.

Dan.

[RICH MUISE]

Mine had ones like the left side in your pic. Just a guess, but I'm thinking from the shorter height of the right one in question that it is maybe for a t-bird. I tried to find a pic, but apparently they had a slip on bootie to cover them, so hard to tell what the t-birds' looked like.

[JimNolan]

My Fairlane 500 has the ones depicted on the right side. Assembly date  Sept 27, 1956

[Sandiaman]

My Ranchero seats that came out of a Ranch Wagon look like the ones on the left.

[Ford Blue blood]

My Retractable and a 500 both had the left side.....

[Frankenstein57]

When I picked up the ranchero body from Randy Conner, he mentioned that the seat skirts on the car were rare, they are the ones on the right.  Mark

[ragtop]

the seat pan on right I was told is from  a 1st gen.57 after that fomoco redesigned them on my first gen. the pans do not exchange I tried I found it won't fit

[Contibob]

I have had cars with both types, most have been the one on the left.