What year did sport seats change?

[SamS]

When did exactly did sport seats change from tombstone with the lever to the later style with the wheel? See different info from different sources.

[spuggy]

PET seems to indicate the early-style Sport seats with the lever, round tilt button & external hinge were use up until -80 MY - eg 1979 diagram 808-10, which shows that seat and says "-80"

Good luck finding them in any condition at all, let alone for a sane price, as they seem to have only got rarer and more spendy since I first wanted a set. Said "meh" on a few - that now would have you doing a happy dance if you got them for 4x, 5x the price..

Think comfort seats switched to SC-style a little earlier, like 1978 - eg 78 drawing 808-00 shows the wheel adjuster.

I had thought both comfort and sport switched at the same time, but was corrected - and PET certainly seems to bear that out.

[eastbay]

This has been floating around the forums for years....