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FunkyOldPatina Samba Member
Joined: October 13, 2012 Posts: 200 Location: Sunny UK!
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:34 am Post subject: Please help me ID these seats! |
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Hi all,
Picked up these seats recently that have a late beetle (early Golf/Rabbit) base on them but I can't be 100% sure that the seat base upwards isn't from another car as I've never seen highbacks with this type of side lever before.
Please can anyone help ID what car they're off?
Thanks.
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skills@eurocarsplus Samba Peckerhead
Joined: January 01, 2007 Posts: 16802 Location: sticksville, ct.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:26 am Post subject: Re: Please help me ID these seats! |
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those look like late super beetle seats to me _________________
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my reason for switching to subaru is my german car was turning chinese so i said fuck it and went japanese....... |
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Thanks for the correction. I used to be a nice guy, then I ruined it by exposing myself to the public. |
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Also the fact that people are agreeing with Skills, it's a turn of events for samba history |
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slave1pilot Samba Member
Joined: February 22, 2010 Posts: 943 Location: Tehachapi CA
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FunkyOldPatina Samba Member
Joined: October 13, 2012 Posts: 200 Location: Sunny UK!
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: Please help me ID these seats! |
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Thanks guys. They do look similar but I've never seen the side lever before, and the bar just below the rear of the seat pad looks different to any late bug seat.
I've seen mexican and brazilian bug seats that haven't looked like that. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12815 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:49 pm Post subject: Re: Please help me ID these seats! |
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It looks like the seat frame is a beetle but the seat itself looks aftermarket. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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skills@eurocarsplus Samba Peckerhead
Joined: January 01, 2007 Posts: 16802 Location: sticksville, ct.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 2:10 pm Post subject: Re: Please help me ID these seats! |
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looking closer, it seems as if the side plates are welded to the remains of a lower seat pan....
are they 914 seats? something doesn't look right on the lower pan _________________
gprudenciop wrote: |
my reason for switching to subaru is my german car was turning chinese so i said fuck it and went japanese....... |
Jake Raby wrote: |
Thanks for the correction. I used to be a nice guy, then I ruined it by exposing myself to the public. |
Brian wrote: |
Also the fact that people are agreeing with Skills, it's a turn of events for samba history |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12815 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 2:46 pm Post subject: Re: Please help me ID these seats! |
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Those crappy adjuster mechanisms remind me of 70s/early 80s Scat shit or maybe Scheel. I've seen them before but can't remember exactly what it was. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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skills@eurocarsplus Samba Peckerhead
Joined: January 01, 2007 Posts: 16802 Location: sticksville, ct.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: Please help me ID these seats! |
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TDCTDI wrote: |
Those crappy adjuster mechanisms remind me of 70s/early 80s Scat shit or maybe Scheel. I've seen them before but can't remember exactly what it was. |
I agree. it looks as if they bolted the rear of the brackets to where the pivot for the backrest went then welded tabs to the forward part of the frame.
looks like late 70's early 80's catalogue seats for sure.... _________________
gprudenciop wrote: |
my reason for switching to subaru is my german car was turning chinese so i said fuck it and went japanese....... |
Jake Raby wrote: |
Thanks for the correction. I used to be a nice guy, then I ruined it by exposing myself to the public. |
Brian wrote: |
Also the fact that people are agreeing with Skills, it's a turn of events for samba history |
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FunkyOldPatina Samba Member
Joined: October 13, 2012 Posts: 200 Location: Sunny UK!
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 4:00 pm Post subject: Re: Please help me ID these seats! |
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Thanks guys. I think unfortunately I've bought some Frankenstein seats here |
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volksworld Samba Member
Joined: November 26, 2011 Posts: 2525 Location: formerly NY currently NC
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 4:01 am Post subject: Re: Please help me ID these seats! |
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definately not 914...they had a fiberglass shell....never saw a vw seat where the upholstery didnt cover that round bar that runs around the front of the seat...looks like someone welded a japanese seat to a vw base |
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