Date:         Sat, 22 Feb 2003 07:43:48 -0800
Reply-To:     Hahn Rossman <hahn@SPEAKEASY.ORG>
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From:         Hahn Rossman <hahn@SPEAKEASY.ORG>
Subject:      Re: A Bench seat up front?
Comments: To: daniel hansen <kevin_likes_to_climb_much@HOTMAIL.COM>
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My local wrecker has the ultra rare 9 person vanagon for sale. That's a
bench seat up front, one in the middle and the standard one in the back. I
imagine you could find a stock front bench with enough digging. It does not
fold down.
Hahn Rossman
Alki Foundry
3600 East Marginal Way South #11
Seattle WA 98134-1130
206.794.4074 voice
206.634.0163 fax
www.alkifoundry.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of daniel hansen
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:36 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: A Bench seat up front?


          Yea think about it!
I've already asked the syncro list and a different vanagon list this and
didn't get any help so I thought that maybe this list in it's infinate
wisdome could help.
  I want to install a z bed seat up front! I like the loven I get from my
wife of 11 months and "I need you here with me not way over in that bucket
seat." (Cake's best album and my favorite song entitled "Stick shifts and
safty belts, bucket seats have all got to go") Wouldn't it be nice to chop
out a bench seat from my other van and weld it up front? What if I could
make it a Z-bed and I could lay it down. (NOT WHILE DRIVING!) Then I'd have
a bed in the front and one in the back! Beat that with a bat!
Any ideas? I've got the seat belt housings, parking break, and maybe the
stick shifter to worry about. I'm 5"4' and she is 5"2' so we would want the
bench close to the dash. Let me know.
Kevin in Idaho
1990 Vanagon Carrat
1987 Syncro GL
1984 Vanagon Gl (parts van)
1982 Patient Wife


P.S. this had not political overtones so I hope it will not trigger yet
another large yet pointless debate. I.E. songalongs,vanagons drivers
favorite's, v-8 engines,or anything else I'll deleat with out opening.




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