Rear seat in van

[Innuendo]

With rules the way they are now you can't just throw the kids in the back of the van anymore.

No. Must have seat belts and must be restrained.

Has anyone researched legally putting one of those '3rd row' type seats that you could get in VZ commodore wagons in a H series van?

I had a full bench seat engineered in a HQ windowless panel van many years ago. So a 3rd row seat could be passed by an engineer. It's not a case of throw one in and it'll be right though!

[Sandaro]

I had a full bench seat engineered in a HQ windowless panel van many years ago. So a 3rd row seat could be passed by an engineer. It's not a case of throw one in and it'll be right though!

I figured it would have to engineered. What sort of seat and what sort of measures did the engineer specify for you? I imagine the creation of seatbelt points would have to reinforced.

[Innuendo]

I figured it would have to engineered. What sort of seat and what sort of measures did the engineer specify for you? I imagine the creation of seatbelt points would have to reinforced.

I didn't actually do it. I removed it from the Van after purchase. But it was written on the rego certificate "87 modified as per engineers report number".
Like I said it was a bench seat. It appeared to be a low back bench out of a HT/G (no head rests). Seat belts had 1/4" plates under/behind the floor and sheet metal quite oversized and grade 8 nuts and bolts along with factory seat belt bolts.

This is where the early Holden's had it all over the HQ-WB because they ran on a Station Wagon floor plan. You simply cut out the support floor wall and fit a wagon rear seat and seat belts in factory positions.
VU-VZ are the same (although you need to add a roof and engineers certificate!). In fact when you add seats (adding extra seating capacity) over the factory stamped seating capacity as stated on the compliance plate you have to get a engineers report.