The best car seats to make a sofa, TG style.

[Polarbert]

mister.t said:

Money no object, it must be these.

Interestingly, there are two different front seats in that car.

[Amateurish]

Lovely recaros:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1994-ALFA-ROMEO-164-V6-C...

[Decky_Q]

I have heated black/red stitching leather and alacantra Alfa 147 interior sitting in my garage I was planning on selling when I have my track car finished if you're interested?

[jds32]

Another vote for grand cherokee seat's.

[.:ian:.]

Volvo s60/v70 seats, double bonus man points if you get the electric memory and heated functions working!

[jon-]

Find an old BMW 635csi with the comfort seat option. Can probably pick them up for a few quid now:

http://www.collectormotors.com/85bmw/09.jpg

[CBR JGWRR]

Back seats off a 156 make a good sofa.

[busta]

Codswallop said:

Rover 75. The seats are big, squishy, often leather and piped, and are bound to be cheap/ easily available.

Very good call! Lots on ebay, cheap and in good condition.

[Faust66]

Everyone is being far too sensible; you want to go for the workshop look, mate:

Get a knackered old oil stained seat from a Metro or Micra, attach to 3 or 4 car tyres with a length of bailer twine/washing line/old tow rope and enjoy! (For the full authentic experience, drink a cup of tea from a cracked mug with milk that ever so slightly off).

You could even go the whole hog and stop buying bog roll and use old newspapers instead…Any young lady you bring back is bound to be impressed!

On a more serious note, I reckon the big leather seats from the Granada/Scorpio would be a good choice… very comfy and nice and cheap I’d have thought.

[carreauchompeur]

EDLT said:

£789! Does the armrest come stuffed with cocaine?

The seller's certainly been smoking it.

[teabagger]

Here is one I knocked up earlier (a single seat rather than a sofa):

Edited by teabagger on Tuesday 28th February 10:30

[carreauchompeur]

That's cool... Well done Sir!

I suspect I will be disappointed by the next question, but do the electrics work?

[Ari]

infradig said:

Been there, done that. Rover 3-Litre leather 3 piece suite(oddly only one with a headrest) Cragar 5 spoke/General Grabber coffee table. Amazingly still convinced an actual real woman to move in and eventually marry me.

And how long did the car furniture last..?

[teabagger]

carreauchompeur said:

That's cool... Well done Sir!

I suspect I will be disappointed by the next question, but do the electrics work?

It would be possible for the electrics to remain intact and be operable via a motorcycle battery and charger setup but it would cause the seat base to be alot higher on the swivel unit. Extra cabling and weight would also be a down side for the amount of occassions the electrics would be used.

[sleep envy]

EDLT said:

Six Fiend said:

eBay item for sale...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-800-Sterling-CAR-S...

£789! Does the armrest come stuffed with cocaine?

No but there's £800 stuffed down the back of it.

[Twincam16]

I'm pretty sure the ones used on Top Gear are from a Jaguar Mk2.

As far as comfy car seats go, my vote would either go to the Jensen Interceptor or the Citroen CX. The CX seats are so un-car-like they might actually be cool as furniture and would avoid the whole bachelor-pad cliche anyway.

I recently got myself a late Sixties Skoghaug recliner for watching TV on.

One like this, in black leather too:



The comfiest chair I've ever sat on.

[Oelholm]

Saab 9000 leather seats, surely?

Cheap and durable...

[TTwiggy]

teabagger said:

Here is one I knocked up earlier (a single seat rather than a sofa):

Edited by teabagger on Tuesday 28th February 10:30

I wondered who'd pinched the pax seat from my Boxster

[teabagger]

TTwiggy said:

I wondered who'd pinched the pax seat from my Boxster

Correct. Its a boxter/911 seat (I am led to belive they are the same).
Sorry about it coming from your car, though its gone to a good home

[cptsideways]

TF seats are from a Carlton or an Omega iirc