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That would be a good sign but many times times the stock seats were swapped out for modern, more comfortable seats. That is the main reason you don't see them very often. That along with the fact that many new trucks were ordered with only the driver's seat, for a work truck the passenger seat took up usable real estate.
for sure. That optional folding seat is very rare. Years ago, like in 1999 I found both in my favorite local junkyard in a 53-55 panel truck. The upholstery was mostly gone but and one had more rust on the frame because a window was open but they were usable. I shipped them to a guy in NY I think. He may have been a member here.
Some years back I bought my panel truck in Palmyra PA. I arranged it to be a family vacation visiting the local sites and I was able to find a few parts in different locations. One place I stopped a guy gave me a passenger seat for little money. I was going to use it in my panel project but the truck I bought had the two stock seat. I kept the seats in my stash for a few years until I moved business shops. While cleaning out the old shop my wife told my kids to take the rusty seat out to the dumpster. I was glad I was there and told her it was worth at least $150. She said, "That rusty piece of crap?". Just to spite her and proof her wrong I put it in the FTE classifieds and sold it within a day to a member for $150, no questions asked.
The technique I I use that I described above would have been the way I would have gone. If the winner would have been a scrapper I would have offered him a decent percentage of his winning bid and grabbed my battery tools and a couple of big hammers and got what I wanted. The scrapper then could get rid of the rest. I'd bet the rear doors were in as of shape as the rest of the truck. If it had stock seat they could have been in OK shape. Seats alone would have been worth $200+
