Rear seats.
I had the two frames made from bus seats. As the bus seat frames were much shorter than my requirements, I had to cut the seat frames in half, inserted a length of pipe, and welding it, thereby lengthening the frame to fit snug between back and front of the Land Rover. Only the rear portion of the frame is fixed, so as to allow the bottom portion to swing upwards
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This is my daughter showing off!
On the back pillar you can see the small bracket fixed with one of those self drilling self tapping screws and on the right you can see how I fixed another bracket in the back corners, an L-shaped bracket was made to fix the back rest to the front of the vehicle, behind the bulk head/ back rest of the front seats.
This was done to enable me to have access to the boxes in the rear of the Landy. I use those boxes to store tools, small diving equipment and the second battery, so access is important.
This is a view of the "hinges" to enable the seats to swivel. All it is, is a piece of flat bar, two bolts holding it to the bottom piece of the frame/seat and one bolt to act as a swivel point on the upper frame/back rest.
I had the actual soft seating stuff made by a local upholstery shop, I used thin long bolts to secure the back rest to the frame and the seat were hooked in the bottom frame.
I found the bus seats to be reasonably
comfortable as the angle between bottom and back rest were close to perfect. (After all,
people spend hours sitting in that position going by bus on holiday.) I can effectively
take 9 people with me with all the equipment in a trailer.
Finally a view from the back to show the seats in the normal "riding" position