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Even the Ford Mustang had an available bench seat until 1969.... 120-130

posted by  someone claiming to be Punxsutawney Phil on  Fri Jun 21 14:12 CST 2002 [RELATED]

So it doesn't surprise me that it was available on the Volvo 122. I've not noticed one, though. I would have been suprised if Volvo offered a column shift....although I'm pretty sure SAAB did have one. With bucket seats, I think.

On the Mustang the bench came with a floor shift (I think). In those wonderful, care-free days, one's "significant other" (this would invariably have been a girl in the 1960s) could snuggle up and shift the gears. There were no head restraints. The seat belts - lap belts, if so equipped- would be a tangled mess stuffed under the seats.

The seat backs would have tilted forward on the 2-doors. They had no latches.

I seem to remember that most cars from the pre-WWII era had the combination of bench seats and a floor-mounted stick shift. The column manual shift mount ("three-in-the-tree") was a development which first appeared on "premium" cars..

-Punxsutawney Phil





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