Recaro

Especially having a German founder, because so many of the cars I like are German.

I said Recaro forever.

Yes.

Fuchs.

Um, I think a lot of them are kind of hidden now, but, um, without naming exact names, there are OGs and people who have been around a long time that'll know when they're looking at an ARC alternator cover versus a replica alternator cover.

There are people who will know when they're looking at a set of JDM Recaro seats versus some Braum seats and understand the difference in quality.

There are people out there that know this stuff.

You just have to find them.

... about the seats.

So the Recaros in the Track Pack, um, they are, um, oof, if you are in a track setting, they're perfect.

If you are over 107 pounds, they're probably gonna be tight.

This has been, like, a Mustang gripe I've had for a long time, that the Recaros have always been very aggressive, maybe too aggressive.

They've said they've widened these compared to previous generations, which I do believe, 'cause it, it's, it's no longer, like, a torture device.

It's now just, like, um, a discomfort-

Yeah, totally.

So I think that works.

So we happen to have like a spare.

It was like a blue cloth Recaro LS, which today is probably like a fourteen hundred dollars.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we rip rip the Explorer seat out, put the Recaro LS in it passenger side because that's I'm pretty sure that's the one that was bad.

Um, and we, my dad drives up for the summer and then gives it to my sister as a loaner car for her to go to college because she was going to college like six hours away.

She had the opportunity to like have a car there.

The same 1.8 turbo wound up to 240 horsepower.

Rear seats deleted, parcel shelf deleted, spare wheel deleted, sound deadening deleted, a strut brace bolted across the space where the back seats had been, Recaro pole position buckets in body colour, and the battery relocated into the spare wheel well to push weight rearward.

1,390 kilograms.

800 of them shipped to Britain.

I start finding myself looking at things like, I just picked up a 1973 Sport Bug.

So in 1973, they made the Sport Bug, and it had Recaro seats in it from the factory, a fat padded steering wheel, all black trim and a black racing stripe on it, and it had slightly, it had six inch wide wheels instead of five inch, and it was blacked out bumpers, black trim, they made them two colors, they made them, uh saturn yellow and marathon blue was the colors on the car and so now i found one impressive sport bug right 73 sport bug yeah sport bug

so one of one of the other guys i really wanted to thank is kevin blinky he's been a great friend of mine and he's been a huge ambassador of the site and that's all he has is sport bugs he's got a yellow one right now

i think he's i i met him at uh two years ago at the show because he's got air conditioning in it i think and we got to chatting And

your money.

Yeah, exactly.

Oh, look at the Recaros.

Yeah, it's got Recaros.

And the actual seat material isn't sagging that much.

No, it's not.

... that experience, I'm like, they're-

...

so cool.

That's right.

There's just, like, all the, the Recaro seats.

I think they're Recaros, or are they? The, the race seats inside-

Yeah

It's got tyre pressure and temperature monitors for the diffs, the transmission, the coolant, it's all standard.

Has amazing Recaro seats.

And just the overall sense of quality in this thing, the fit and

finish is nuts.

Gives you a clean and factory look.

Wide compatibility, so they support multiple bucket seats from Sparco, OMP, Sebel, Recaro, Track Racer, Sim Lab.

So they're not using a basic vibrating motor, so instead of a cheap spinning weight motor, this kit features a total of 14 integrated shakers, so four base transducers, 10 high-definition actuators.

You're gonna get an amplifier control box as well.