I recently made a note about a ‘3rd’ seat that sat between the front seats of an old Willys and that I couldn’t find any information about it on the web.  Well, Ron has such a seat in his jeep and shared some pics with us.  These appear to be pretty rare, based solely on the fact that I haven’t seen any of these attached to jeeps for sale (that is until I saw one recently).  Thanks Ron!

Ron wrote, “You were wondering about the “3rd” seat or center seat on one of your adds. You advised that you had researched and could find nothing about them. I have one of these seats. They were offered by Willys to make the bucket seats into a bench (in theory). They work so-so. Mine came with my Dad’s 1960 Willys CJ-5 jeep, purchased brand new from Dold Auto in El Centro, California (the jeep is mine now). It was apparently an option. The upholstery is shot on mine but they are easy to restore as the base is a single piece of stainless steel formed like a seat. The upholstery slips on like a sock, one for the back and one for the seat. I can still remember the day we brought the jeep home, I was 9 at the time, seem like yesterday.”

Take one Tundra Truck, plugin your Sawzall and, viola, you too can have a vehicle like this ….

Paul spotted this strange creature. It wasn’t until I saw the last picture that I discovered it was a Tundra Truck.

Paul writes, “The Goddess and I went out to eat yesterday evening (it was another one of those all you can eat and keep down places) and while walking across the parking lot I saw a modified Toyota extended cab pickup truck.  This truck had California plates on it so I guess the driver had a bit of bad luck on the drive north because the damage to the body was substantial.  Along with every sheet metal panel being dented, yards of tape were used to keep the headlights from falling out, the windshield and hood were missing and actually the entire top had been cut off so there were goggles hanging in the cab for the driver and passengers use.  A small rear view mirror was attached to the steering column but the best touch was a bible resting on the transmission hump [editors note:  If i were driving this, I might want a bible nearby, too].”