Yes.
Yes, I do.
I may even need to buy another car so I have a place to store the brown ones
Yes.
Yes, I do.
I may even need to buy another car so I have a place to store the brown ones
I would happily pay for the ones you don't want. Shipping would kill the deal though
But why would they go in the dumpster?
In reply to Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter) :
There are approximately none that I don’t want.
Mr_Asa said:But why would they go in the dumpster?
My friend is retiring. He sold his business and the building where he had them stored.
The black ones came out of his RV and I think the brown ones were in one of his airplanes.
He has more money than I do.
Congratulations, and thanks for keeping some spiffy seats in circulation and out of the dumpster!
I missed out on a more-than-reasonably-priced pair of BMW E21 Recaros locally a few weeks back.
Even with his money, he could be shocked at what those (particularly the black ones) are worth.
If I had those brown seats, I might be forced to buy a 635csi just to put them in.
In reply to stuart in mn :
The funny thing is that a few years back, I found found a pair of full-on, multi color, Beverly Hills Motoring Accessories Ad Recaros at the dump, right at closing time.
I had just finished cleaning out all the junk from my barn and was feeling pretty good about all the new found extra space. And the seats were covered in mouse poop. So I left them there, even though I had dreamed about owning even one seat like that for most of the 80s. I immediately regretted having left them behind, and have hated myself for it ever since. Those things would have been worth the trouble and expense to restore.
These black seats are the next best thing, and will actually look right in either of two cars that I currently own. And the brown seats are the only ones that I could even remotely come close to being able to afford back then, but still never pulled the trigger on.
These are literally seats that I dreamed about when I was younger.
I've got a single seat like the grey ones, but it's blue in colour (paid $35 for it). Also bought a second pair of Recaros from a Christian charity thrift store. I was in the store looking around and the guy at the checkout yells "Who owns the race van ?". My Astro had "Dead Skunk Racing" in large letters on the quarter windows. I identified myself and he asks if I'd like to buy some racing seats and takes me out to the loading dock and shows me these seats. I attempt to tell him that the seats aren't race seats and before I can lead him to their potential worth , he asks if I'd give him seventy bucks for them....."Yes,yes I would."
I was in a speed shop in Ottawa, Ontario in the early 70s. They had a pair of those Recaro Ideal "C" power seats. IIRC they were $2500. To put that it context for the time, I was in university and my entire expenditure for two semesters, tuition, books, room and board and beer money was a few hundred dollars less.....but I lusted after those seats for years afterward.
Take an Alitalia flight. Every. Single. Seat is a Recaro.
I need better friends!
Woody (Forum Supportum) said:I may even need to buy another car so I have a place to store the brown ones
I have the same thoughts........what older car could I get to put these in. Currently, that's a Volvo 544 with a modern drive train, but that's also just daydreaming.
The browns would also be great in a Gen1 or 2 Rabbit/Jetta/Sirocco/Cabby
Something with very minor mods but certainly a Kammi up front
In a perfect world...
Clearly, I need to make better quality friends.
DeadSkunk (Warren) said:Woody (Forum Supportum) said:I may even need to buy another car so I have a place to store the brown ones
I have the same thoughts........what older car could I get to put these in.
What car couldn't you put them in?
In reply to MadScientistMatt :
They won't fit in my Miata. 
In reply to DeadSkunk (Warren) :
My dad has a pretty sweet Recaro office chair similar to those. Story goes his longtime former manager bought it and decided very quickly that he did not care for it, so gave it to my dad instead. Dad's had it now approximately as long as I've been alive and still raves about it.
To some, they're desirable rarities. To someone else, they're old scabby seats out of an old RV or airplane that they've been storing for decades and never needed.
In reply to Furious_E (Forum Supporter) :
I'm currently sitting in a Viper office chair that my staff gave me for Christmas over twenty years ago and I have two Viper side chairs that I made myself, similar to the two Recaros in the picture I posted. Black auto seats make decent looking furniture IMHO.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
Even a scabby one can be parted out on Ebay. People are always looking for the plastic bits, or a headrest or an intact foam bolster, although new foam was still available in England last time I looked. I need a suspension system for one of mine.
Sure, almost everything can be sold to someone if you're willing to do the work and have the time. But if you've been sitting on these for a long time and you have to empty out a building by a certain time - you just make them go away. I get it.
That black one closest to the camera looks like it's got some bolster damage, like there was a big driver who spent a lot of time slouched to one side in that RV.
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