Re: '62 Wagon rear seat archeology

["Gary H." <62to65mopar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Car archeology at its best. :)

A car coat was a hip-length overcoat or jacket originally designed to be worn while driving a car, [popular 1960–65].
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/car+coat

If you can safely apply heat to that frozen spring and let it cool the rust may give up the fight.

Thanks,
Gary H. 

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>  Also does your narrow fold-up floor piece right behind the rear seat work?
>  Mine is frozen in place straight up, even after a year of soaking it with
>  penetrating oil.  Looks like it  should be a spring loaded piano style
>  hinge to pop up the panel when you want the seat up?
>  
>  
>  When I took the seat back off, inside the seat was a thin strip of
>  remaining ol’ skool clear plastic puffy seat covers.  And a store
>  credit memo receipt dated 1963 for a 1924 Cadillac  “car coat”
>  made out to Mrs. John C. Crocker.  Maybe the first owners, since my
>  grandparents bought the wagon in 1969.  At any rate both the seat cover
>  remains and the receipt, show they were car people that took car of their
>  cars.  The Cadillac was 39 years  old at that time.  Maybe the $19.90
>  “car coat” was a car cover, or undercoating? 

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