rcreweread Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Anybody recognise what this seat is from - came with a load of TR bits I acquired 30+ years ago - is it an early TR seat ie 2 or 3 and is it worth anything? cheers Rich Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fireman049 Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Hi Rich ~ Could that seat be from an Austin Healey? Cheers ~ Tom. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Morrison Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Certainly not TR 2,3 of 4 John. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lebro Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Agree not TR Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don H. Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 What does the bottom pan look like, and what does the squab look like out of the bucket? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rcreweread Posted July 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Don - I'm afraid I can't remember and I'm not going to be able to have a look for a while - I have a side profile photo but I just can't see how to resize it to fit on here! Bear with me and we'll get there eventually !! cheers Rich Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rcreweread Posted July 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Hi all - managed to resize the side profile photo , so attached herewith if that helps cheers Rich Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alec Pringle Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 That looks remarkably like the seats fitted to a Dove I owned briefly in the 70s, and I saw another Dove at the time fitted with the same seats. There was a suggestion that they were 'original', in the sense that they were options offered by Doves of Wimbledon - that from the owner of the other car so fitted, which he'd owned from a couple of years old. No idea what car or aftermarket manufacturer they came from though. Cheers Alec Quote Link to post Share on other sites
james christie Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 Corbeau?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lebro Posted July 25, 2014 Report Share Posted July 25, 2014 This picture shows part of the seats in my 1965 Dove photo taken in circa 1977 Not really the same as your photo Bob. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
71 V12 Posted July 26, 2014 Report Share Posted July 26, 2014 The overall seat shape looks very similar to E Type S1 3.8 roadster, although the cover is different pattern. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tony Millward Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Agree with 'whatshisname' above about them being E type seats......what IS your name? Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rcreweread Posted July 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Hi all - that's interesting - I'll try and take some more photos and repost - I may have to clean it up a bit! cheers Rich Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fireman049 Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 They are definitely not 'E'-type seats. Tom. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stillp Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Daimler SP250? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rodbr Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 (edited) SP250 Dart had a squared front seat Looks more like this 1970's Cobra seat. Or this 'The Newton Commercial Classic 2000 Bucket Seat' classic mini http://www.newtoncomm.co.uk/products/79-products-79/ Edited July 28, 2014 by Rodbr Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MikeF Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 It looks very like a late Spitfire seat to me. http://www.newtoncomm.co.uk/themes/newton/front-end/gfx/build/view_product_large_white.png Does it have a hole in the top for a single bar head rest? Quite possibly whoever it was thought a Triumph seat would be handy one day. Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rcreweread Posted July 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 Mike - it doesn't have any holes in the top for a headrest mounting - also the sides aren't nearly as deep as the various bucket seats mentioned earlier. I will try and take some more detailed photos in the near future. cheers Rich Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rcreweread Posted August 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Hi all - have now had a chance to take some better photos but I just don't seem to be able to upload them - I have resized the photos to be only 30% of the original but it keeps saying " Error This upload failed" in a pink coloured and red edged box above where it says " Attach Files" in the reply screen. In the sentence after the box "Attach This File" at the bottom of the screen it says "You can upload up to Uploading is not allowed of files ( Max. single file size:8MB)" . The middle words "Uploading is not allowed" is in heavy type. I am not a regular contributor, but I recently put a post in "BuySell" and was able to upload 5 photos - subsequently I have only been able to upload a max of 1 photo, if any at all - what am I doing wrong ? I have got 5 or 6 photos which will really help to identify this seat but this is so frustrating! Finally, why is there a caption next to my ID on the screen which says " 0 warning points" - I don't see this on anyone else's ID . This is such a user unfriendly forum! cheers Rich Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don H. Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Photos are best -- and a user-friendly piece o' cake -- if you host them someplace and use a link to display them here. Copy the URL from your hosting service (Photobucket, Flickr, paid services like SmugMug (the one I use and can highly recommend) into the dialog that opens using the photo icon on the message toolbar, and you're good to go. Hosting the image on the TRR website has many limitations, as you've noted. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don H. Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 ...why is there a caption next to my ID on the screen which says " 0 warning points" - I don't see this on anyone else's ID... Relax. "Points" are some of the private information provided about one's account. If it's really important to you I'll send a screenshot of my personal view and you can see the no points comment on my user panel, too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rcreweread Posted August 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Don - thank you for the advice but to an IT ignoramus like me, it's all double dutch - I don't even know what an "URL" is! Isn't that someone with a title in the House of Lords? I will have to get some training but in the meantime, we clearly can post photos as people do, and indeed I have as well in the past, so it would be interesting to know why I now can't. Thanks for the explanation re my "points" - I thought maybe I had been a naughty boy and being going too fast over the threads! cheers Rich Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley James Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Hi Rich ~ Could that seat be from an Austin Healey? Cheers ~ Tom. No Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rcreweread Posted August 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Photos are best -- and a user-friendly piece o' cake -- if you host them someplace and use a link to display them here. Copy the URL from your hosting service (Photobucket, Flickr, paid services like SmugMug (the one I use and can highly recommend) into the dialog that opens using the photo icon on the message toolbar, and you're good to go. Hosting the image on the TRR website has many limitations, as you've noted. Don - getting their slowly - have now set up a photobucket account and have got an album of the seat photos - but now I'm stumped. Where do I find " the dialog that opens using the photo icon on the message toolbar". Also to copy the URL from my photobucket album, do I right click on the album and "copy link address" - sorry to be such an idiot! cheers Rich Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don H. Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 (edited) You're doin' great, Rich -- you're only minutes away from being able to insert pix. The reason you might not be able to upload now whereas you could in the past is that each of us has a limited amount of storage space on the TRR website, When that's full, one has to clear out old images or move to a hosting service. There have been many requests for the Register to increase the space per member so images could be loaded directly to the website -- you're not alone in wishing for that! Here's the Photobucket instruction page on links: http://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us/articles/200724324-Linking-and-Embedding-Images This will show you how to get a "direct" URL (uniform resource locator -- a complicated name for the web address for the photo). When you have that, the "image" icon on the TRR forum his here: For example, to show the image above I pasted into the dialog that opens the following URL for that screenshot: http://4xdog.smugmug.com/photos/i-V4MgBFs/0/L/i-V4MgBFs-L.jpg You can click on this link and you'll see the photo, but the forum software is set up to grab and display the link directly using that icon on the toolbar. Edited August 24, 2014 by Don H. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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