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MG MGB Technical - Seats , can anyone identify?

Hi guys, I have a pair of reclining seats sat in my stores. Been there for over 30 years!

I thought they might be Triumph Spitfire, or GT6, but squabs are different.
Definitely not MGB, but I am sure they will fit.
The headrests are very BL.

There should be a picture attached.
Can anyone help?

Colin

Colin Parkinson

Colin

Looks like Triumph Spitfire MkIV seats from 1973 to 1975, see: https://newtoncomm.co.uk/collections/spitfire/products/seat-covering-kit-vinyl-car-set-1973-75-mk-4

(https://newtoncomm.co.uk/collections/spitfire)

Best wishes
Mike

M Wood

Thanks Mike, not them I am afraid. Seat squab is different and I checked the parts book, and it is a totally different construction. But thanks anyway

Colin
Colin Parkinson

Colin

Reliant Scimitar?

Thanks
Mike
M Wood

Nope Mike not Scimitar. They are very similar to Spitfire.
Different bottom squab and different method of construction.

Colin
Colin Parkinson

When I had a GT6 I tried to get better sets for it (another unbelievable chapter to my car experiences book with unreliable self-employed traders and manufacturer/suppliers being economical with the truth) so I know their floor area is very restricted for seat fitting, I assume the Spitfire is the same.

The bottom cushion looks very long so could it be from a bigger car or even a saloon, the tilt handle looks too posh for many a BMC/BL offering.

Old TVR?
Nigel Atkins

Nigel that is the best suggestion up to now, which i hadnt already checked!

Very similar shape to Chimeara, but different handles. They will be 80's cos I have had them for ever!

More research required!

Colin
Colin Parkinson

Colin,
yes a bit Chim like but older and certainly not with that headrest. They look vinyl so I discounted the posher British brands. Chims and (90s) Griffs were all leather IIRC.

Your seats reminded me of when I had my B roaster in the 90s I bought some MGOC TVR-style leather seats for it and then soon sat on them with a screwdriver or something in my back pocket and put a small surface split in them which I had to superglue. Two weeks ago I done the same to my wife's car - older but no wiser!
Nigel Atkins

My guess TR4 /4A ?
richard b

Richard B, TR4 with a head rest??

Colin
Colin Parkinson

OK how about 5/6 headrest looks BLMC type.
richard b

I think it wasn't until the TR5 that the seat backs moved.(?) I've always particularly like the look of the 4s and 5s and was talking to an owner at a show three lifetimes back and I think that was one of the facts that surprised me (or I might have remembered wrong).

ETA: Rich, you posted whilst I was typing - not sure about that headrest for 5 or 6 but I could be wrong and the headrest might not be original to seat.
Nigel Atkins

Colin,
are you sure the set is set up correctly, the back looks, er, too far back from the base - which made me think of a 6' 4" Peter Wheeler (I'm just over 5' 4").
Nigel Atkins

They don’t look like TR6 to me. My brother and myself each had one.
Dave O'Neill 2

Nigel, I am sure about nothing! But they are quite comfortable.

Richard the head rests are very BL.

Definitely not TR6 Nigel.

Thanks everyone.

Colin
Colin Parkinson

I didn't think the seats or headrests are TR6 - for some unknown, and usually totally wrong, reason I get the feeling of a saloon/coupe/2+2, the seat seems familiar but unknown to me.

Having said that, someone put up a part that they thought was a door handle and I offered a suggestion as I thought it looked familiar to me and it turned out to be the handle for the rake adjustment on a Midget seat, as I see everytime I get into my car!

I've spotted Lord Lucan several times!

Nigel Atkins

TVR M series?
M Wood

Very similar to M series TVR, but again different construction. What TVR came after the M series?

Colin
Colin Parkinson

The Ms IIRC are the ones without a hatch, so if the Taimar had a hatch that was next, I think.
Nigel Atkins

The aspect ratio reminds me of the seats in my father's Rover 2000 that we brought to the states in 1967. I don't recall if it was a '66 or '67.
Ed Morse

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