Bought a 1960 cabriolet that was raced years ago, it only came with 1 seat, does anyone know who made this seat or where I can get another one? I've seen them on a Singer Porsche recently. 1st and 2nd pictures my seat, 3rd the singer
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It sure does look the same. If no one here knows what it is I'd suggest reaching out to Singer and sending them a picture.
Man, those SInger guys really know their shyt, huh?
I just drooled a little on my keyboard, @Robert M.
This looks close?
@edsnova posted:This looks close?
I saw that on Pinterest but I don't have an account so I couldn't link to it.
It's missing the stainless buttons, the funny thing is my seat is seat from tge 70's that was used while the car was raced. Singer did their homework
If you click @edsnova's excellent link (thanks for that one, Ed -- I'll be bookmarking it), you'll see they can be had with the eyelets.
I'm trying to find an original one like the one I have. i think its a vintage Ricardo seat just can't find it
Recarro. I think so, too. I don’t think they were ever OEM Porsche seats, but they were aftermarket Recarros.
What do the backs look like? These are those seats that were used in RSRs (72-73?) Given that yours doesn’t have the adjustable backrest, I’d say it’s a passenger seat
Similar to the Singer seats except for taller bolsters with seat belt pass-throughs. I’d take a WAG that Singer had Recarro build them adjustable RSR copies.
I believe that Porsche used Ricaro seats as OEM in the late 60's, not 100% but I just googled it and it says they started in the 60's with the 911
Could also be a GTS Classic Nurburgring seat. They haven’t changed much since the 60’s.
@Cbmcrudy posted:I believe that Porsche used Ricaro seats as OEM in the late 60's, not 100% but I just googled it and it says they started in the 60's with the 911
Yes, but Porsche OEM Recarros were never fixed back seats, either the standard or the Sport. The RSR was the only one that I know if that had them.
eta: I guess the R and the STs had seats similar to yours, too.
FWIW, Recarros were made by Reutter carrosserie, the same people who made Porsche bodies.
The “ST” seat on the Vintage Seats site Ed posted looks closer to what you’ve got. Or perhaps the RS with smaller bolsters.
Those are early 911 RS seats, or a copy of. From memory (and it's been a long time) the originals had a bar on one side with a thumbscrew that allowed a small amount of pivot in the angle of the back. Most (if not all) replicas did not have this same thumbscrew until recently. I don't know if the original Porsche seats were made by Recaro, but Recaro definitely made these the if seats back then also. They were copied by countless companies over 50 years and several still make them today including GTS Classics, Vintage Seats, Cobra, etc...
these seats the back is upholstered you can't see the plastic. i'm going to post a picture of the back in a few hours, here is a better picture of the seat.
