TR2/3/3A TR3 Which Seat flips?

[luke44]

I got my car as a box of parts so I did not have the luxury of taking it apart and marking things as I went. This has made reassembly at times a challenge to say the least.

Current dumb question: is it the drivers or passengers seat that flips forward? Thanks in advance.

 

[Geo Hahn]

The passenger seat flips.

That said, for many years (before I knew better) the flip seat was on the driver's side of my TR3A & I rather liked it there since, with the addition of a couple of shims I could make the seat a bit more upright which worked for me.

 

[rlwhitetr3b]

I intentionally put mine in backwards. Then I could tilt the driver’s seat forward when I left it in the sun. It stayed cooler that way.

 

[Geo Hahn]

Also makes it easier to stow the driver's half of the tonneau (which is the half that usually has to be stowed away on mine).

 

[Don Elliott]

George & Rich - While you may like it that way, I go for "originality" and as I bought my TR3A brand new in May 1958, it was the passenger's seat that flipped forward. I think that's what they call a "jump seat" to let all those other students get into the back seat of a TR more easily.

I remember our Prof in Engineering telling us that no transits etc. at surveyor school would be tolerated in a car. We were two engineering students and with the two most beautiful architecture students (females) we would drive the TR (top-down) all over St. Gabriel, Quebec with all our survey equipment in full visibility and never got caught by the profs.

 

[Crankshaft]

I bought my '62 TR3B new with the right side movable seat. Just a thought though, in England that would have been the drivers seat. So I rationalized the moving of my moveable seat to the left (drivers) side.

Phil

 

[Lukens]

I bought my '62 TR3B new .

Phil

And you still have it? Wow. Just wow.

 

[Geo Hahn]

I...Just a thought though, in England that would have been the drivers seat. So I rationalized the moving of my moveable seat to the left (drivers) side.l

Which begs the question: On a RHD TR3A, which seat flips?

 

[bnw]

Both of my 57 seats flip. Go figure?

 

[Don Elliott]

For TRs sold in countries where they drive on the same side as in England, it is still the passenger's seat which flips forward to let people get into the rear of the TR without asking the driver to step out.

That's the way is was in TS2, the second TR2 ever built which I drove for 23 days (2088 miles) across England and Wales during July, 2011.

 

[Don Elliott]

Phil - Welcome to the "unofficial special unique group" of original owners. We are a minority - but a significant minority.

I know 6 or 7 other original sidescreen TR owners. Most are in California.

Don Elliott, Original Owner, 1958 TR3A TS 27489 LO
bought new May 13, 1958

 

[Crankshaft]

And you still have it? Wow. Just wow.

No, I only wish.