Rear-facing jump seats in back of wagon?

[ShakotanBoogie]

I've always thought it would be cool to mount some seats facing backwards in the back of the Trashwagon. My only question is, what kind of metal is there to mount to back there? Would this be doable?

[Virrdog]

Just watch out for the gas tank if you want to bolt it to the floor.

[ShawnW]

Insufficient leg and headroom if you ask me but it'd be fun!

[Durania]

I seen a Volvo wagon the other day going down in the interstate that was like that, but there's is all factory.

[GeneralDisorder]

When I was a kid we had an 83 Pontiac Bonneville woody wagon with the rear facing seat. The parents used it to keep us kids WAY in the back. That thing was a beast - had an Olds 301 V8 in it too.

 

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[daeron]

When I was a kid we had an 83 Pontiac Bonneville woody wagon with the rear facing seat. The parents used it to keep us kids WAY in the back. That thing was a beast - had an Olds 301 V8 in it too.

 

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around town here, there is someone with a final generation GM station wagon descended from that.. it looks like about a 93 caprice (IE BFChevy, the competitor to the crown vic) but the guy has been patiently, and BEAUTIFULLY making it into a real woody station wagon. i mean, with high cost 1x4s from home depot. REAL classy job too, but its obviously like either a carpenter or an amateur, and NOT a car guy... i cant wait until i see it finished. I was seeing it fairly often last year, and last i saw it was all together but unfinished.

 

on another note, ACK what nasty fatbodies those things are!!! i will never understand how it only took us 20 years to go from station wagon, to minivan, to SUV, back to station wagon errrr sport compact wagon utility vehicle... even tho i know soob is partially responsible for blurring the line. the outback and forester have long been two of the only "wagons" i could care less about..... and dont tell me im using the term wagon wrong. an H2 is a station wagon. a ford explorer is a station wagon. any of those yuppiemobiles are station wagons. four doors and a hatch? station wagon. two doors and a hatch? hatchback.

 

its only a truck if its got a bed. and now we have some of those that arent even really "trucks" (crucks like the brat, el camino, and baja are of COURSE in a TOTALLY other category much higher up the "cool" totem pole)

[Flowmastered87GL]

I liked the idea of trying that, but when I installed my GL-10 seats in my GL I had the extra materials to experiment. In an EA82 the seats WILL fit. However... you will have about 6 inches of legroom if I recall AND the seat will essentially be on the floor, there is no footwell. (and I strongly recommend against using the smugglers box for footroom... its a crumple zone!)