I just set up a passenger seat in my 1987 Bluebird. The driver's compartment is small, now that I constructed a wall just behind the seat. I bought a 'captain's' chair (a bucket seat from a used vehicle) cheaply. It has a base with holes in it so I placed the chair next to the driver's seat, drilled two 1/2" holes, making sure I didn't pierce anything underneath that I didn't want to, and bolted the seat down. It is quite sturdy, swivels, has a seat belt built-in, and I didn't have to do anything else. There's a little bit of climbing over it for the driver to get out, but since we plan on leaving the bus in one place for extended periods of time and do a minimum of driving, this seemed like the easiest and cheapest solution. Plus the seat comes out very easily to be used in my other bus.
Hope this helps.
. I was convinced that I did not want to be looking over my shoulder and trying to converse with another while I was driving.(It's not that driving is so hard it's the fact that I don't want to keep turning my head 120* to talk to someone) My idea was to sit side by side with a large console in the middle. This also eliminated the ingress egress in front of the passenger seat. My solution is to sheet over the existing stair well in my 78 Crown "Father". to do this I located and purchased a window that was identical to the drivers window and a seat that is identical to the drivers seat. The idea of course is to place a passenger seat on the new floor sheeting opposite the drivers seat, Place a window in the new sheet metal area now covering the old door and use the area of the old foot well as a storage compartment. ( in my case a gennie will be placed there).
