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post Oct 7 2011, 11:37 PM
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I just read on "Pelican" that a 914 has a 3=seater option with seat=belt. Obviously the 3rd seat (if this is true) must be between the driver & passenger seats, but it just doesn't seem possible.

Can someone explain this? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
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post Oct 7 2011, 11:40 PM
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very small person on the center cushion
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post Oct 7 2011, 11:51 PM
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QUOTE(pecci @ Oct 7 2011, 10:37 PM) *

I just read on "Pelican" that a 914 has a 3=seater option with seat=belt. Obviously the 3rd seat (if this is true) must be between the driver & passenger seats, but it just doesn't seem possible.

Can someone explain this? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

Early cars ('70/'71) had an option of a 3rd lap-belt in the center. Really more of a child seat than anything else.

The mounting for the belt was omitted from '72 onward.

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post Oct 8 2011, 09:33 AM
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QUOTE(SirAndy @ Oct 7 2011, 10:51 PM) *

QUOTE(pecci @ Oct 7 2011, 10:37 PM) *

I just read on "Pelican" that a 914 has a 3=seater option with seat=belt. Obviously the 3rd seat (if this is true) must be between the driver & passenger seats, but it just doesn't seem possible.

Can someone explain this? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

Early cars ('70/'71) had an option of a 3rd lap-belt in the center. Really more of a child seat than anything else.

The mounting for the belt was omitted from '72 onward.

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I kinda added one in the center anyways, it does make a teener awful cozy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)
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post Oct 8 2011, 09:45 AM
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Just retrofit a split bench seat out of a small truck (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon8.gif) I guarantee you'd have the only 914 with one in it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif)
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post Oct 8 2011, 09:53 AM
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post Oct 8 2011, 10:03 AM
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Fact: You can fit either 2 passengers (cozy-ly) in your 914, or 3 slightly tipsy girls. True story.
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post Oct 8 2011, 10:18 AM
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post Oct 8 2011, 10:48 AM
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The sticker on my gas expansion tank states Seating 2 + 1 - and my car is an early 72 - but didn't come with the extra seat belts - so I guess mine is a tweener teener!
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post Oct 8 2011, 08:25 PM
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I've driven people for very short trip on my center lad before I put a couple speakers in it's place. Not really sure what the factory seatbelts for the 'middle' seat looked like though.
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post Oct 8 2011, 08:27 PM
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Anyone wanna post some pics if they have any of the 3 seater. That would be cool to take my 2 kids in.
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post Oct 8 2011, 08:54 PM
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It was the 70s!! They used to let you ride the roll bar (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) But only if youd been drinking!!
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post Oct 8 2011, 09:03 PM
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It was the 70s!! They used to let you ride the roll bar (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) But only if youd been drinking!!

This is so ironic. I was going to a car show today my friend's teener lost its suspension ear and my son was with me. We left her car , my son uses the middle seat and we made it. What is so ironic is that just before I left I I logged on to the world but didn't have a chance to read any thread.I got back home and this was the first thread on my list.
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post Oct 8 2011, 09:26 PM
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Our '70 has the center belt, it looks just like the outboard belts. my wife used to strap in 3 little kids using a combination of the passenger belts. With the top off and all the engine noise, you could hardly hear any squables from them.
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post Oct 8 2011, 09:43 PM
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It's a pad upholstered in the same vinyl as the other two seats. Basically, it's just shaped like a flattend loaf of bread and the bottom side is stepped so that it fits in the plastic tray between the seats.

The center belts share the inboard seatbelt bolts.

This is where I rode all the time in the 70's until my sister came along and the 914 was sold for a Plymouth Valare. Blech.

If nobody else posts a pic, I'll shoot one of mine and post tomorrow.
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post Oct 8 2011, 10:23 PM
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it was the 70's...before the super size trend and obese america. l hear there was a lot of cocaine use as well (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
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post Oct 9 2011, 12:09 AM
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Fact: You can fit either 2 passengers (cozy-ly) in your 914, or 3 slightly tipsy girls. True story.

I did this tonight!
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post Oct 9 2011, 09:39 AM
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Before my youngest boy got too big, he used to ride in the center with the belt. The belt is very short so it's more of a limiting factor than the space the boys took up. We wouldn't go far bit did make a few multy hour excursions areound some senic areas and beaches.
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post Oct 9 2011, 10:08 AM
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that pic is from this TV episode. I posted it in the sandbox last year. Lots of 914 content

My first '71 had a center belt. I wish I had kept the belts.
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post Oct 9 2011, 10:56 AM
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Fact: You can fit either 2 passengers (cozy-ly) in your 914, or 3 slightly tipsy girls. True story.


I tried this once, got about a 1/4 mile before being pulled over. I tried explaining to the cop that these cars had a 3rd seat option but he claimed to be the president of the Orlando PCA and soundly declared that it was never an option. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/busted_cop.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/busted.gif)
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