Thread: Won’t be retro...

I took over the ownership of my grandfathers HQ when he got too old to drive.
I christened it with my then girlfriend who is now the wife, the front bench seat on the way back from 13th beach, made it good to cuddle.

Originally Posted by scarry

Had a HQ ute of my own,and a HQ company panel van,both had bench seats,when i met my wife

Those were the days...

In fact the ute had a slippery diff,went some places,often amazed my brother who had a SWB series 3 at the time.

Mine was a 72 ute. Great vehicle. Desert Duelers, bull bar, underbody protection, plate steel rear bar mounted on car springs to the chassis. Hot 186 motor. M20. Giddy up. Ohhh...and blue dog in the back. Cheers

Sounds like a bench seat in any new car would be a hit - would be awesome for the Deefer to bring this back into vogue. 👍

Originally Posted by ozscott

I had a Rambler front bench seat in my HQ. Very flash.

Cheers

I had the whole Rambler! Nyah nyah nyah!

Originally Posted by Homestar

Sounds like a bench seat in any new car would be a hit - would be awesome for the Deefer to bring this back into vogue. 👍

Yer,the young ones on here don't know what they missed out on

Lets just hope they have sorted out the seats springs,and don't bring back the 4 wheel drum brakes,and the three on the tree...

Originally Posted by scarry

Yer,the young ones on here don't know what they missed out on

Lets just hope they have sorted out the seats springs,and don't bring back the 4 wheel drum brakes,and the three on the tree...

Looks like it’s a one on the tree EV to me

Bloody bench seats!

Your memories are all clouded by extra curricular exploits, from a driving POV they were shocking!
The steering wheel is supposed to be used to steer and position a car through corners, not used to stop said driver sliding across and through the passenger door assisted by slippery bloody vinyl!

A school mates older sister had to get married thanks to the lay back bench seat of a suitors HD Holden.
We all reckoned that was the only good thing about any HD we'd ever heard of.

Originally Posted by rick130

Bloody bench seats!

Your memories are all clouded by extra curricular exploits, from a driving POV they were shocking!
The steering wheel is supposed to be used to steer and position a car through corners, not used to stop said driver sliding across and through the passenger door assisted by slippery bloody vinyl!

A school mates older sister had to get married thanks to the lay back bench seat of a suitors HD Holden.
We all reckoned that was the only good thing about any HD we'd ever heard of.

Looks like new fender is running 3 individual front seats.

Good point, would have to put anti slip pads on benches haha, Good write up re: "defender leaked interior practical motoring" (google it)

"So, what do we make of the Defender’s interior? Well, for a start it looks to be a design-development mock-up rather than a production ready vehicle. Although, you could suggest the bones of what you see above will make it to production.

There looks to be a digital instrument cluster behind the steering wheel but the way it looks in the image, this is likely to be a picture within a picture, if you get what I mean, rather than an image of a working cluster. There also appears to be a head-up display. But there are also almost no visible markings on dials or switches, beyond the stubby little dashboard-mounted gear lever.

But what the picture does suggest is that Land Rover is clearly improving the interior quality of the Defender by taking cues from current vehicles, but sticking with the ‘practical’ features that have made the old Defender so popular, like the, what looks to be a, hose-out floor and generally more durable looking interior plastics. And the brake and accelerator pedal show Stop and Go on them.
Interior of the Defender Works to give an indication of what the new Defender has to improve on…you can see the stubby gear lever looks to be carried over from the old car.

The Defender will be unveiled at the end of this year, so, expect the drip-feeding and spy shots to continue."