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[Les Foster]

Recently an E83W steel-boxed pickup was offered on EBay. The photos accompanying the offer showed a passenger seat fitted to the cab. The seat was the old-style tubular frame type with separate rectangular backrest and seat cushions with a gap between the two areas. Is this the correct type of optional passenger seat for an E83W pickup (as opposed to the more common bucket type seat usually seen in 50's E83Ws)?? I have seen these seats pictured in very early E83Ws and in 5cwt. vans but my estatecar uses a folding version of the bucket seat with raised legs. It's a little too big for the tiny pickup cab, however. I'm wondering if the pickup had this two-cushion seat or a raised version of the bucket as a proper passenger seat. Does anyone know for sure?? -Les Foster

[Rick]

Hi Les, glad to have you back on here. As I said in my email, I have a seat similar to that which you described. It came with a rough pickup, that had started out life as either a Utilecon or an Estate. I wasn't sure if it was a Ford seat (optional or otherwise), or simply a little seat that fitted and someone bolted in. I don't recall ever seeing a passenger seat being offered as an option that looked like this, but perhaps at one time??? It'll be interesting to see what anyone else thinks.

ES2 has recently bought an Estate Car from ebay, his shows a similar WD dash plate to the one that my cut-down E83W had. I wonder if his came with any seats as you describe?

Rick
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[ES2]

Hi Les and Rick

An angle iron framed seat sounds about right bot mine has the small remains of a crushed tube pair of front legs legs and the floor-mounted hinge could well be original. The two rear seats are fixed with a captive-nut type fixing in the floor boards, but there is a metal floor under the passenger seat and so the fixing would be different - and there is an indent in the n/s folding floor flat that accomodated the rear n/s passenger leg.

I could post a pic if this isn't clear


cheers

ES2

[buzzy bee]

Hi

If you had a passenger seat in a pickup, you would of had a foot well fitted that would go over the engine I think, I think rusty reks has one in his truck, he sent me a pic a while back, as to provide space for your passengers legs. I supose in a van the passenger seat would be mounted a little further back?

Cheers

Dave

[Les Foster]

If you look at the Ebay 'pickup for sale' listed in the Forum you will see the seat that I'm referring to. I gather that a passenger seat was an option for the pickup but like the estate or van it would need to sit higher than the driver's seat to compensate for the lack of any footwell. I was just wondering about the style of seat. My Estate still has its original passenger seat which is basically a standard Thames bucket seat with extended tuular legs to raise it and projecting horizontal feet that extend forward to pivot brackets so that the whole unit can be flipped forward so that rear seat passengers can get in. The backrest also folds flat to the seat cushion so that the whole thing flips flat against the dash. In the pickup the backrest wouldn't necessarily have to fold- the seat could just tilt forward like the drivers seat to clear the in-floor tool box. Anyway, if anyone has ever seen a factory-provided pickup passenger seat, I'd like to hear what it looks like!

[Rick]

was it like this seat Les?

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/vintage/coxvanseat.htm


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