1970 Dodge Charger with Bench Seat

[kevink]

How many of you have 1970 Charger with a bench seat? I ask 1970 because I think that is possible the first year you could get the bench seat in a Charger? Just curious to how common this is/was as an option.
Thanks

[Kern Dog]

I've only seen them in 1970 XH models, like mine....

[DAY CLONA]

My 70 Charger "had" a bench/column auto...first thing on the "To go" list....

[RallyeMike]

I've had only one 70 Charger and it was a bench seat column shift car.

[moparstuart]

they make a super rare one that looks like two buckets and a fold down arm rest like a buddy seat , but its all one piece bench .   70 Charger and GTX only   

[AKcharger]

My '72 has one. I was going to put buckets and a console in it but thought "Hey, you never see bench seats anymore" and kept it. People at car shows always get a kick out of it

[6bblgt]

they make a super rare one that looks like two buckets and a fold down arm rest like a buddy seat , but its all one piece bench .   70 Charger and GTX only    

  .......  NO they don't  

the bench seats in Kern Dog's pictures are the only 1970 Charger bench seats available & XH29 ONLY (all vinyl "H2??" - available in: black, white, blue, green, tan & burnt orange)
- the 1970 GTX bench seat is shown below (cloth & vinyl "P3??" - available in: black, blue & burnt orange)

[XH29N0G]

the 1970 registry says something like 9300-9400 XH built.  Mine had a bench seat, no exception.  One question I have always had is whether the bench sits the driver and passenger higher than the bucket seats.  I am thinking height off the floor. 

[Kern Dog]

  One question I have always had is whether the bench sits the driver and passenger higher than the bucket seats.  I am thinking height off the floor. 

What? I thought you meant that the seats would make you fail a drug test....

[cbrestorations]

Had a triple black 70 383 Charger with bench seat.

[XH29N0G]

   KD,  I figure you would know since you have both.  Is there a difference in height.  I always felt with the Charger bench seat that I was sitting up higher than in some other cars with buckets.  I wondered if the chargers with buckets also sit up high, or sit a little lower.

[Kern Dog]

Yeah, even with the seat worn out, My head does sit closer to the headliner in the XH/Jigsaw car !

[DD]

All base model 70 Chargers (XH29) came with bench seats. Buckets were not an option and were standard on the 500 (CP29) and R/T (XS29) models.

[Kern Dog]

There are a LOT of car guys that incorrectly believe that you could order a car any way that you wanted. I know a reasonably smart guy that thinks you could have ordered a 440 or a Hemi in a base model car.
No, they were only available in the R/T.

[JimShine]

20 years ago, it seemed like most of the 1970 Charger's I was finding locally were these stripped down budget Charger's. One was a pristine, low mileage survivor in blue. Every single one of them, including the survivor, wound up "upgraded" with bucket seats. I often wonder how many of the XH cars are out there modded and not obvious.

[DD]

The survival rates based on cars registered with the 70 Charger Registry:

XH29 Base Model: 5.8%
XP29 500 Model:   7.8%
XS29 R/T Model:   16.7%

There are still cars out there yet to be found but a lot of the less HP cars met a crushing fate or were stripped to keep others alive.