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Re: Dodge "Travel Seats" anyone seen them?
fritz #578410 August 10th 2012 8:27 am
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Originally Posted by fritz
I didn't know he factory seats hinged? All the vans in junkyards here have the seats out.


It's a combination of hinged & pivoting. Once the seats are latched down into the floor brackets, the bases are stationary. The front bench has three positions, upright for normal travel, flat for the bed & it pivots front to back. This allows the seat to face back to make the dinette (seats facing each other). The rear seat has only two positions, upright for normal travel & flat for the bed.

It's a cool factory set up.


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Re: Dodge "Travel Seats" anyone seen them?
fritz #578411 August 10th 2012 8:29 am
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I'd like to find a set too and perhaps integrate them into my project.


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Re: Dodge "Travel Seats" anyone seen them?
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I'm going to post this in the Bvan forum aswell. I think it would be worthwhile to find a set and reproduce them. Making the seat frame itself isn't all that dificult but the folding/pivoting mechanizm as well as getting it the dimensions right will be hard with out an actual seat to go off of.

Anyone else looking for a set? Anyone have more pictures? When I get home I'll try and dig up all the brochure pictures I can find.

Re: Dodge "Travel Seats" anyone seen them?
fritz #578483 August 10th 2012 7:13 pm
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Re: Dodge "Travel Seats" anyone seen them?
fritz #578511 August 11th 2012 12:05 am
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i LOVE this type of setup - i was working on a custom set last year, but i got a regular tri-section seat, then another plain fold-out...

i have thought about regular RV dinettes to put on the driver's side wall - something i might do 'someday'...

if anyone comes across some reproductions - or really good photos to replicate, that would be appreciated...

yeah, i'm a Chevy guy - but that's such an awesome design...


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progress on my van: http://s193.photobucket.com/albums/z269/95-1Ton/My%20Van%20s/
Re: Dodge "Travel Seats" anyone seen them?
Keep_On_Truckin_WNY #578567 August 11th 2012 1:03 pm
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That is great! I wonder why the rest of the Big 3 did not copy that?

I know know there is some law now that you can't set in dinette seats while the vehicle is in motion but you could just fold the table up when you drove.

Re: Dodge "Travel Seats" anyone seen them?
fritz #581974 September 02nd 2012 3:13 pm
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Looks like Chinook had something similar.
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Re: Dodge "Travel Seats" anyone seen them?
fritz #582657 September 07th 2012 12:17 am
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Ford had some passenger Econoline vans in the late 80's early 90's with the bench seats that dropped to a bed like that.

Re: Dodge "Travel Seats" anyone seen them?
maples01 #582956 September 09th 2012 11:12 am
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Fritz, here is more "Travel" seating option info:

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