Early Recaro seats — did they always have badges?

[Nordschleife]

Need your input, please: Did all early Recaro race & rally seats from the 1960s & 1970s always have the “Recaro” badge mounted on the seat?

Best,
Andy

[recarno]

hello andy, to answer your question clearly: no.

By the way, the badge shown is the 2nd version ... installed from the middle of the 70s. Hope I could help you .

regards

[Nordschleife]

Thank you, Recarno. I have an early Recaro 1328 (no seat harness holes in the sides [thus pre-1973?] and the grommets on the rear & bottom of the seat’s shell.

This seat’s corduroy fabric looks to be original and I do not see any holes in the corduroy fabric where a Recaro badge was mounted.

Best,
Andy

[recarno]

you should be able to look behind the back - check whether the foam is still original and whether there are holes in it for the badge. your letherette has probably already been exchanged, at least this piping never existed. I cannot conclusively judge whether the cord is still the first based on these pictures.

regards

[Nordschleife]

Thank you again, I will look. What years did these Recaro 1328 (“ST”) seats have the grommets in the back & bottom? I’m interested to know the approximate year this seat was made.

Best,
Andy

[Saskia]

My understanding is that if the seats were after market they had the Recaro logo. If the seats were provided by Porsche they did not have the Recaro logo.

[woznot]

My elephant foot seat does not have a logo