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seats that will work with my 71 Type 3
jaymesobryen - December 18th, 2005 at 05:49 PM

Hey everyone,

I would like to put some high back ( well something with a head rest ) seats in my 71 type 3 fastback, i was wondering what everyone had put in there and what would and wouldn't work.

I will also be installing a stereo myself shortly, which should prove fun, wish me luck and stay posted for pics.


REDKG - December 18th, 2005 at 06:00 PM

the simplest solution is to use hi-back seats from a later type 3. these are a straight swap. avoid the very last type 3 seats (73) as they use different mountsAS


jaymesobryen - December 18th, 2005 at 06:03 PM

yeah keen on that, but these are hard to come by, well so far anyway, but ta for the info


baybuscamperkid - December 20th, 2005 at 10:47 AM

the late t3 seats arent that comfy either, unfortunately any other seats (such as the lovely comfy 1979 subaru seats i have in my kombi) would take a lot of modification to fit. maybe you can find some other rails that match standard, space them correctly, weld them to a tubular box frame and then bolt/weld that to the base of a cool seat, would need to be engineer cert/d though.