Seats on the Bond look great. Did you make these? One of my next jobs as the bodywork is nearly done. Any advice very welcome!
I'll probably leave it without the rear hammocks for the time being. Although useful in their day, they'd be unlikely to see much use in my hands and when I heard there was originally a tonneau cover available as an optional extra I thought I might have a go at making one of them somewhere down the line instead and just use the space for storage. The only bit of the front seat that came with the car was a wooden former for the seat back, but I was told that the rear seats from a Mini Traveller would drop in. Unfortunately Mini Traveller rear seats seem to be even less common than Bond seats these days, and I thought getting a proper seat made would probably have meant delaying things, so I resolved to make something myself, temporary or otherwise. I came across the back seat from a Morris Traveller very cheap (£15) and in good nick and never having tackled upholstery before, bought it on the off chance that it might give me a good starting point. I've basically chopped down the innards to fit and contorted the outer covers til it all looks reasonably presentable. The Morris seat base and internals look very robust and the seat feels like it was made for the job. the only difficult bit was contorting the inner wire frame of the seat to reduce the seat's width without destroying its integrity. But a good blow torch, some welding gloves and a couple of hours of metal wrestling was all it took.
The glove box was standard on the Mark C, but wans't fitted on the Mark D. Probably due to something glove related.
