Recaro Topline sear pair

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Recaro seats for sale (driver/pass matched pair).

These came in the E9 I bought 7 years ago. I’m using Scheel-Mann seats, so these superfluous.

They are an older version of the “Topline” seat, without shoulder harness holes. I’ve done a quick dusting off of the seating surface but not the sides and back I’d say condition is 8.5/10. I’ve included pics of a couple spots (I’ve not tried to clean these yet). The passenger seat is essentially unused. Visually I’d say they have maybe 5000 miles on them .

Everything works, knobs are all there and they come with sliders that look to be standard Recaro 16” spacing. You will need adapters to fit into your car. The E9 adapters that came with these are being moved to my Scheels.

I like this place for adapters (https://www.2002parts.com/bmw/recaro-seat-parts.html).

I’d call these a touring-sport style seat because the bolsters aren’t very big. I would go much more aggressive for a track day focused car. I used them few times and thought they were very comfortable on long tours. In the pic of the bottom you can see a place where you can mount a PC pancake fan to make these actively cooled (air exhaust holes are visible in the seat back).

I think they look very out of place in an E9 - styling is way too modern. They might be nice in an e30 or a MaZda Protoge-S...

New ones are about $2600/pair.
Does $1300 seem reasonable?
Will not split the pair. No shipping due to size.

John (Boston)

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John, they are a bit contempo for a coupe, unless its a real restomod. they look to be in very good shape and i bet they are comfy. these seem like they would look good in an e21 / e30 or maybe an e12. in the right 2002 they might work depending on how the back seat was redone. GLWS ...
 
I had a very similar pair of Recaros (Recaro Trend) in a coupe and they are quite comfortable. They didn’t look too out of place IMHO but they did sit higher than the stock seats; at 6’ tall I could crane my neck and touch the headliner with top of my head. You may have to customize the bracket to lower the seat a bit, but these are nice seats. For point of reference I paid about $2K for the Recaros and brackets back in 1999.
 
Ya, these would look great in an E36 or even an E30.

I have the full power versions in leather just sitting in the garage. Not sure what I was going to do w/them.

Shipping is not an issue really if you don't find anyone local. Just get some wardrobe boxes and ship them via Greyhound.

Better than just collecting dust.
 
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