Middle seat

Hello we have recently had an addition to the family, and we are really looking forward to a family outing in the Commer in the spring, but after 6 months I have still not managed to find a middle seat, If anyone has a spare one they would be happy to sell we would be very grateful pref in Brown.

Many thanks Cemlyn
 
Bump... does anyone have any other ideas for fitting child seat in the Commer or another seatbelt as we have side facing bench seats in the back and I would imagine that fitting belts to them would not be good/work/legal any ideas welcome
 
Hi Cemlyn, a Commer middle seat is only bolted to the engine cover so you would still need some method of securing the baby seat. You could pick up the drivers and passenger seats seatbelt anchor points to fit something that the baby seat could attach to, it's been done before so no reason why you couldn't do the same, but have you thought about adapting a seat from another classic - like a Mini. It's not too big and some brackets welded to the frame would suffice to secure it to the engine lid, there must be loads of other seats out there that would fit the bill. The other option would be to use long straps secured through the floor with spreader plates on one of the rear benches, the baby seat could face forward leaning against the side of the cupboards on either side and the long straps would come up from below and hold things together, trouble is it wouldn't be easy to get to the little one from the cab:I I know Clarabel has this mod.
 
has mr m not got one in one of his vans lying around[?]

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Some info, I'll look for some more

http://66.129.69.181/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3683

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Hi Panky

Thanks for all the info had not thought about using a seat from another car might look into that, if I cant find a Commer one,
Really need to sort something out would be a shame not ot be able to use her now there are three of us, I even had a brief thought about getting a Darksider instead!!!! as I have been offered good money so many times for mine.......??????
 
The hassle of sorting out a middle seat is nothing compared to owning a darksider - is it any easier to fit a child seat in one of THEM.
All's it needs is a bit of imagination - unless you want to be just ordinary;)


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Sorry I was only briefly thinking about it very very briefly, it wont happen honest, I couldn't do it, to be honest I couldn't afford it.
Might try and get to the Welsh meet.
 
You've redeemed yourself - MIGHT try and get to Pandy, you can do better than that;)

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