Man Cave Work Stool (Car Seat Conversion)

One of my kids ripped a hole in the top of my primary work stool. It has been bugging me forever, but today I got the inspiration to fix it and improve it. This is a quick conversion of a bucket car seat to a work stool base.

Step 1: First find a donor bucket seat

I hate to break up a pair of bucket,s so I have been looking for a lone bucket seat for a few months. Mostly on Ebay and Craigslist. Focusing my attention on something that would not be too large and had some style. While perusing the junk yard today, I came upon this 1987 Porsche 924s. It was pretty beat up, but it had a lone bucket (even better it was the passenger side, less wear) and it was in decent shape.

Comments

[Machine]

I think you'll be far, far, far too comfortable on that seat and you'll get very little work done.

You'd better send that seat to me and I'll look after it for you while you get to work on things.

Thanks for showing us your workshop and new seat.

[couchchangeracing]

I must admit that I have spent some additional time in the seat lately. I need to get off my butt and nice chair and fix/build some stuff.

[DoDo729]

Great instructable, hell of an idea. Looks like I might be off to the auto wreckers soon. Keep up the great work and cool ideas. Thanks for sharing.

[couchchangeracing]

Thanks, it makes my home shop almost complete

[PeoplesCar]

Cool instructable. I've got a pair of seats from a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle 1300 (I have a 1971 Beetle 1300, but these didn't come out of my particular one) that I've been thinking about turning into chairs for my home office, which has a classic VW theme with other parts used as decor. At first I was going to pick up a pair of those low steel frame / plastic seat chairs kids use in school which are always in thrift shops, but I like this more.

[couchchangeracing]

Sounds cool. I am a big VW fan too. I would probably cut the loop off the bottom of the vw side rails. This design already pushes the envelope of good sense when it comes to center of gravity. That extra 6 inches or so would really put it up there. I suppose you could go the other route and get really happy cutting down the stool legs, or just make the base larger. I may do that later as well.

P.S. I have owned over 30 vw's and used to work for one of the largest vw shops in the 80's called Barrett enterprises.

[Chumlee]

nice one stylish and comfortable= GREAT! your man cave looks amazing aswell, you should do a tour of it (im really nosey lol)

[couchchangeracing]

Thank you. I have been building, modifying and improving it to my tastes for over 18 years. I try to find new uses for retired and discarded old stuff. I also try to find ways to make my small space work better. I will try to get some of my projects posted soon. They should include some shots of the overall shop in action too.

Thank you for the comment.

[zazenergy]

that looks so comfy!

[couchchangeracing]

It actually is more comfortable than I had anticipated. I also have a milk crate under the bench as a foot rest. Thanks for the comment.