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IMG_7306.thumb.jpeg.2a5bd8f0fed7c5a051e97279c8166f64.jpegAny chance of finding a good f model visor ? I’m not sure who made them. I am restoring a 1971 western fl700l . I also need an electric window mechanism for the passenger side and the short bostrom level air seat that sat on a stand. 🤞

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The visor and the window regulator are going to likely be Mack only, but the shorty air seat, IHC used on their trucks esp cabovers, as the heater box was under the passengers seat and it couldn't take a full height air seat. 

If I am understanding you, that you are looking for an air suspended seat that doesn't bolt to the floor, not just one with a low back.

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IHC cabover and some conventionals use that air seat. Only on the passenger side. Some have a non suspended seat but look for later ones where the air seat is more common on the passenger side.

That will give you more trucks to look for in the junkyard.

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Any of the 9000 series and some of the 4000 series IH's had the short seat that sat on the heater box. Most any of those that had the Eagle package have air ride seats.  I believe the visors were built by Lund. Good luck. they are as about as scarce as new windshields for that truck.  Looks like a nice ride. Best of luck to ya

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A visor sure does change the looks of an F model. Or any truck for that matter. Some trucks, like a Transtar, look fine without one but a K100 for instance just didn't look right to me unless it had a visor. I drove a '77 F model with no visor

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but when I was driving the '79 Leonardo Da Caprio invented visors for F models. I thought they just looked great, so I asked H.H. if I could put a visor on it and he got one for me. Really changed the looks of the truck.

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I used to see a lot of good stuff being scrapped down at the steel mill in Petersburg, but one time I saw an F model with a visor that looked perfect and I wished I could have saved it, but that was out of the question of course.

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