In a message dated 11/23/02 11:40:28 AM Pacific Standard Time,
kelphoto@highspeedplus.com writes:

<< ... I'm wondering this same type of thing with a middle front flip down
 seat.  We happen to have a Nissan King Cab pickup, that has the fold
 down seats behind the front seats. I'd like to Keep going with the this
 idea.  I'll look at the structure and see what I think it would take for
 this type of folding seat to work and post back.>>

Likewise.

<< I would also like to add a two person rear facing bench seat, but have a
 captain's chair in the left rear facing position, so I can't put in the
 standard Vanagon two person bench, the arm rest interfers on width
 needed.  So any ideas? A different bench from a wrecking yard, or maybe
 just a three person rear bench, and remove the captains chair except for
 trips.  On second thought I'd really like to keep the captain's chair
 ;permanently installed and just have a two person bench, lighter to lift
 in and out. >>

Mark, I'm not clear on which rear facing seat you are referring to. Two types
of rear facing seats are usually available. One is bolted in the left rear
facing position. Armrest for those is in the plastic panel. These seats are
not easily removable. Then there's the removable folding and rear facing
jumpseats. IIRC, none of those are available w/ armrests in US spec vehicles.
They did show up w/ armrests in the European spec Oettinger Caravelles. Since
your signature line says 91 Carat, I am assuming this is the latter is what
you have. In which case you should have one in both the left and right sides.

You can certainly install a 2-person middle bench there. You can always
unbolt the leftside armrest so that it can fit with the Carat plastic
sidepanels. Then you can;t effectively use the left side rear facing seat as
the seat bottoms would interfere w/ each other. You can still use the
rightside jumpseat. In effect this would give you, eight person seating. If
you are missing the rightside jumpseat, you can simply use the one from the
leftside which as long as you have the correct mounts in there.

I don't understand what you mean by "...or maybe just a three person rear
bench, ...". I assume you mean middle bench. The rear most bench is a
3-person seat already in the Carat. The 3-person middle benches are quite
rare in the US.

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