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Old Jul 17, 2002 | 04:00 PM
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Car: 1989 Iroc
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Which is more rare?

Which would be more rare? Split rear seats or bench rear seat.
I had some guy try to tell me an 89 iroc he was trying to sell had a "rare" bench rear seat and i almost wanted to laugh at him, (my 88 has a bench rear seat as well), but i did wonder how many if any camaros came with split rears. I have an 89 donor formula with the splits and i was wondering if they are anything special.

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Old Jul 17, 2002 | 06:00 PM
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Not sure about Camaros, but with Firebirds it seems that the split is a little more common. 1982 had solid rear seats in all firebirds, then 83 and up they were split rear seats, and sometime towards the end, I'm guesstimating around 90 maybe 91, they went back to solid seats. Don't quote my figures as hard facts because I'm not sure about the later 3rd gen, but split looks to be more common, by a little bit.
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Old Jul 18, 2002 | 04:52 PM
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Well in 1989, out of a little over 100,000 camaro's, about 33,000 of them had the split seat. So the bench is more common, overall. To base car cars rareity on that, is in a word: laughable:sillylol:
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Old Jul 18, 2002 | 05:55 PM
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by split do you mean the tops and bottoms are separate or just bottoms and the top is one peice? my 89 rs has separate bottoms and a one peice top
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Old Jul 18, 2002 | 06:24 PM
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By bench we mean one piece top, split seats in back have two individual fold down seats instead of one. The split seats can be kind of annoying, I know I have them, you have to go to both sides of the car to fold the seat down when you want to put something back there.
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Old Jul 18, 2002 | 06:47 PM
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oh i see, thanx, well yeah i can understand hwo annoying that would be, but you have to stretch to get the single piece down anyway
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