snaps on jump seats in 65' cabriolet

[Richard Milstead]

Wil,
Thanks for responding but what I was talking about would be two small leather or vinyl straps with a snap at one end which are somehow affixed to the back wall. Their use is to snap onto the jump seat using the snap that you are referring to in the top center of the back to hold the seat back up. I believe all Cabs (T6 and later, at least) had those snaps located in the center of the seat back for the top boot to snap to (as Tim shows).
The straps I was referring to offered by Stoddard and supposedly used on "late '65" Cabs are shown on their site (link below):

http://www.stoddard.com/catalogsearch/r ... 522.063.40

I believe that if your Cab had these you would recognize them. If it doesn't, could it be they were introduced after Jan 1965 (i.e. "ultra" late production Cabs)?

Dick Milstead

[Wil Mittelbach]

Wil,
Thanks for responding but what I was talking about would be two small leather or vinyl straps with a snap at one end which are somehow affixed to the back wall. Their use is to snap onto the jump seat using the snap that you are referring to in the top center of the back to hold the seat back up. I believe all Cabs (T6 and later, at least) had those snaps located in the center of the seat back for the top boot to snap to (as Tim shows).
The straps I was referring to offered by Stoddard and supposedly used on "late '65" Cabs are shown on their site (link below):

http://www.stoddard.com/catalogsearch/r ... 522.063.40

I believe that if your Cab had these you would recognize them. If it doesn't, could it be they were introduced after Jan 1965 (i.e. "ultra" late production Cabs)?
Dick Milstead

Dick -
Being unfamiliar with such straps per my C cab and on other C cabs, I have no additional comments relative to my prior posts.
- Wil

[Brad Ripley]

Here is the original entry in the Porsche Price Liste for the strap mentioned above.

90152206340 RETAINING BELT 4 N 13.65Y

Note the prefix of 901 !

End of this story. PS, the "N" means it is No Longer Available (NLA).

[Richard Milstead]

Wil, Brad,
Thanks for responding. I guess I go back to my initial comments to Susan which was that they (i.e. Porsche) didn't provide straps to hold up the jump seat backs in C Cabriolets. That leaves one still unresolved issue, the "rubber strap" shown in the C parts manual (644.802.152.41) that appears to be something like a bungee cord. I've never seen one, has anybody else?
Dick Milstead

[Brad Ripley]

The bungee existed. Here the price list entry

64480215241 CROSS STRUT 4 N 3.11Y P

Strange, it has a 41 suffix indicating Roadster.

[Richard Milstead]

Brad,
According to the C parts book suppliment (which I finally dug out) these were for Coupes, Cabs, and Carrera 2s and two were supplied with each car! I don't have the T6B suppliment available so I can't verify if they were or were not also called out there. Strange, but if specified for coupes then they had nothing to do with the snaps on the top of the jump seats as coupes definitely didn't have those. Now with many more coupes out there than Cabs, I renew the question has anyone ever seen these original with a 356C/SC coupe?

My initial feeling is that I doubt that anybody has and priced or not they were not a standard offering and weren't part of the accessories program either. Maybe the "41" suffix is a giveaway that they were really intended for the rarest of the rare, the C/SC Roadster! Or do you just think those "Old Guys" at the Factory are messing with our minds again?

I hereby declare the quest for the mythical seat retainer for C/SC Cabs to be officially at an end. They never made such.

Thanks to all who have put up with this excursion into escoteric Porsche details.

Dick Milstead
Escoteric Detail Guru

[Charlie White]

I think Dick has got it right!

CW

[Brad Ripley]

And when I find one of these, a repro will be forthcoming.

[Jay Aldeguer]

Sorry to have to revive this thread but I'd like to know if the snaps found on top of the rear folding seats were found as well on the T5 cabriolets?

Thanks.

Jay

[Tim Herman]

Jay, the answer is YES

[Jay Aldeguer]

Thank you, Tim.

Jay, the answer is YES