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seat identification

Posted: Sun May 19, 2019 11:15 pm
by redhouse53
I have a pair of tombstone seats, is it possible to date them or identify which model they are from? Long and the short is I might put them up for sale and have no idea if they are desireable or not. I suspect they might be early 70's 911 seats.

thanks

Re: seat identification

Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 7:00 am
by visualfx
Hi,

If you post a picture of them ill be able to give you some detail

Re: seat identification

Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 10:00 am
by redhouse53
Not sure if this helps, I'll get more later. Ihave lost a couple of the plastic knobs of the tilt lever, but it does have the flat metal hinge plates and they weigh a ton. I vaguely remember a thread on here about particular RS seats that were very rare?
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Re: seat identification

Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 7:48 pm
by visualfx
Thats a early impact bumper sport seat. Quite rare as it has a metal recliner hinge but with cable tilt forward mech like seats to date.

The missing hardware (lever handle) is also a rare peice. These always fracture at the fixing point.

Garry

Re: seat identification

Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 9:39 am
by redhouse53
visualfx wrote:Thats a early impact bumper sport seat. Quite rare as it has a metal recliner hinge but with cable tilt forward mech like seats to date.

The missing hardware (lever handle) is also a rare peice. These always fracture at the fixing point.

Garry
brilliant, thanks. I'll have to hunt for the hardware, I remember putting it somewhere safe but that was many years ago.......

Any idea what they might be worth?

Re: seat identification

Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 7:52 pm
by 72911E
Depending condition £2k - £3k

Similar pair on pelican at the mo

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche- ... ition.html

Re: seat identification

Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 8:28 pm
by redhouse53
72911E wrote:Depending condition £2k - £3k

Similar pair on pelican at the mo

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche- ... ition.html
I literally just fell off my chair!!

They could easily be brought up to that condition

Re: seat identification

Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 10:06 am
by IanM
Best seats ever made by Recaro.

I also have a pair in the same black vinyl/cloth. The driver's seat (RHD) has the very rare option of 2 holes in the headrest for race harness.