1950 Truck

[emckeon]

I recently bought a 1950 Chevy truck 3100 series. I'm trying to buy bucket seats for but will consider a bench seat. Does anyone know if you need to cut out where the gas tank originally went in order to put seats in where you will have more leg room? I bought some bucket seats but they don't allow any leg room.
Mr. Ed

[nvrdone]

Removing the gas tank doesn't add any leg room. Do not remove the cross piece in front of the tank. That adds strength so the cab doesn't flex.
When I changed my seat, I found a set of mustang buckets which fit well enough to give me about 1.5" of additional leg room because the seat backs are thinner than the truck seat.
I wound up using a 3rd row bench from an astro van because the headrests were removable and didn't stick up above the bottom of the window.
If you do a search on here for seats there's lots of good info