The birth of a restoration Project
 

Thought I'd post my new pick up. And show it as it transforms from crap to a wonderful seat. Seat from polo grounds with two NY figurals, which are rare. You normally see them with only 1.

I already ordered all new vintage wood to replace the bad ones. And have a piece of metal for the top soon to be welded on.

Good luck.. should be awesome when you are done.
Matt

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Good luck Brock! Lota work but its alota fun!:D:D

wow-very cool! Will look awesome when done! Are you in a Campanelli Ranch??

Can't wait to see the final results...please post pictures as you go along.

Jeff

Brock here is a picture of my triple row seats with the NY also on both ends. I replaced 3 legs 9" short and had them welded. also replaced the wood but never touched the paint on the cast iron I left that original

Good luck!

Beautiful work. Good choice leaving the original paint, it's beautiful.

I'm gonna fully restore them. I would love to leave the paint but think the seats will be better looking orange/gray with black NY like it was in 1957.

Sadly I Have to replace all of the slats with ones from a 1940s minor stadium, so it won't be 100% original.

Good luck on the project, keep us posted

Please PM me before you toss the old seat wood. Would be willing to buy it off you if the price was right!

Update. Got the broken piece back and it's now repaired with the top bracket.

Next set is to get the paint removed and powder coated orange.

Anyone know where to find these type of carriage bolts. It's a 1/4 size bolt but with a large head. I can only find ones with small heads on them. One dealer has them for sale but at $3.00 per bolt.

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they did a really good job.

How many do you need? $3 each is kinda ridiculous.....but isn't this a several thousand dollar seat? :confused:

10 of them, so it would be $30. But if he has them, they have to be out there somewhere. But lowes, Home Depot, seats have none close to it.

if you check them closely I think there aluminum

Forget lowes, home depot, etc.

Try fastenal.com

I'm not sure where you are in MA, but they have five stores in the Boston area. If not fastenal, there should be other stores in your area that sell nothing but nuts, bolts, screws and all other manner of fasteners.

I'm with Rob, pay to get the right bolt. These are going to look awesome and you are giving me insight for restoring the Sulphur Dell stadium seats in my barn!

Well i gave up on the search and just decided to follow your guys advice and just buy the bolts. Seat should be finished next week. Will post pics soon.

30 bucks isn't much in the grand scheme. Can't wait to see the finished product. :D

Almost finished. Just have to paint the NY black and maybe redo the number 4.

Wow it's looking great!

Looks great Brock!

Greg

I dont know Brock the white seat and seat back and those grey legs!:eek: OOPS wrong chair! Looks great my friend nice job!;);)

Wow, nice.

Brock,
That looks awesome. You did a great job restoring it. I didn't think I would like this color scheme as much as the green, but it really does look nice that way. Did you paint it yourself?

One of those is definitely on my list at some point in time.
Best,
Mark

Seat is all done. Both NY are painted black.

Spectacular job Brock. Congrats.

Stunning -- #4 for Mel Ott I presume?

Greg

Awesome!

Yeah and because 4 is my favorite number(Gehrig). I thought about 24 for Willie but picked 4 cause it was easier to do one number than two even though I don't really like how the 4 came out.

Amazing job...congrats!!!!!

Jeff

Absolutely gorgeous. I like how it stands on its own. :D

Looks great!