The actual change in the seats, when the cars went from TR3 to TR3A at
car number TS22014 with the start of the 1958 cars was in the shape of
the seat back, which went from flared at the the top (the mushroom seat)
to basically vertical. At the same time, the seat kits changed from
single bead at the top with the pleating running vertically up the back
and from front to back on the seat cushion to double pleated at the top
with the pleating running from side to side on both the back and the
cushion. This design lasted through the early TR4 seats, which had
other, less visible, changes.
You presume right....., but that is not to say there weren't many
oddball seat kits out there.
Bill McLeod
Slightly Classics
Tucson
Ron Easterly wrote:
>Hi List,
> Can anyone tell me what year ( or # ) the TR3 and TR3A changed seat
>design from the single bead around the top of the seats to the thicker, double
>beaded top.
>I have a '59 TR3A and I beleive that my DPO put the wrong seats or covers in
>when he did a restore.
>I was always to presume that the TR3 had a single bead on top and the TR3A
>went to the double ( 2 to 3 inch thickness ) with a dual bead across the top
>of the seat.
>He says otherwise...
> Was there any other differences ?
> Thanks, Ron
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