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Old 08-30-2020, 09:18 PM   #111 (permalink)
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The seats are out, but what you see is the backrest, which is anchored in the chassis with bolts. Too big job to build in and out every time
I love it Green! I did a conversion of an old Dodge Caravan that I have. It is so much better than a tent.

You may want to take a closer look at those seat backs. I’m not sure about the Skoda but on my Golf the seatbacks slide out in a minute or less. On the driver side there is a plastic catch that slides back with a flat blade screwdriver and it comes forward and slides off the middle post. Almost no tools required. The 2/3rds seat back is heavily reinforced to hold the center seatbelt in a crash. I removed the seatbacks and spare to remove almost 100 lbs of unnecessary weight in my car.

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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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