Back seats for the first time in decades

When I bought Rusty back in 2012 we lived in Belgium, it was very common to find 4x4s converted into "lichtevrachtwagen" which translated into English is light commercial vehicle with only the two front seats and a bulkhead behind to segregate the load bay from the cab.

You can just make out the silver of the aluminium bulkhead in the centre of the truck.

Well over a year ago my girlfriend found a seat of back seats for sale on a facebook group, made an offer and off we went to East Sussex to fetch them.

Quick test fit of the first single seat just to get a feel for them.

needless to say, I'm happy.

The seats are ordinarily held down to the floor pan with M6 bolts into captive nuts in the floor itself, these have not had seats fitted and the people who removed the seats just left the bolt holes empty so they ended up rusted out, I ran a thread cleaning tap through them first and when I put bolts in the threads pretty much instantly stripped out.  Hey ho, drill out to 1/4" imperial and then tap them out to M8, job jobbed.

Both seats all fitted up and folded while I fit the seat back catches and the seat belts.

You can see the little black latch box on the side at the C pillar, these both had to be fettled a little to get them to fit after the mammoth rear end rebuild, things were not quite an exact fit and needed 10mm trimmed off the bottom, no drama, that's why we own a grinder lol.

Other side seat belt fitted and just getting the latch box trimmed to fit.

After it was all fitted and ready, it was time to go out on the first day of the new year to go have new years day dinner with mum.

Proper family outing with baby and puppies.

Thanks for looking.