Date:         Mon, 15 May 2006 14:30:48 -0400
Reply-To:     Christopher Gronski <gronski@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Christopher Gronski <gronski@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Turned 7 pass into 8 pass
Comments: To: David Bohannan <fjazzbass@gmail.com>
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Neat. I already own a seven passenger westy (two in rear bench, two in
middle bench, and three across the front courtesy of a two peson
passenger side bench from a DOKA). But I wondered if there would be
room to have one (or two) more face rearward towards the middle bench
with some kind of jumpseat. Probably not if they wanted any legroom.

Chris

On 5/15/06, David Bohannan <fjazzbass@gmail.com> wrote:
> This weekend I did a modification to allow me another seat space in my seven
> passenger 85 GL.
>
> I ripped the middle bench out of another vanagon that I had...cut it in half
> and installed it next to the other seat. It worked out nicely as I put the
> (different color) seat up against the driver side, installed child carseat
> and voila! You can't tell from the outside that its even a different seat.
>
> I cut the seat foam in half, but only wrapped the fabric around the bottom
> of the seat and secured it with the seat springs. Slid the existing 2 pass
> seat up against the newly installed one. Since it has the lean forward
> lever, it allows you to have easy ingress/egress for rear
> passengers...prolly just like the original 9 pass van.
>
> Thanks to the listmember that recommended this to me a while back. It took
> me a while to actually do it, but its done...took a couple hours on a
> saturday...even cut the carpet to match...
>
> I'll be interested in converting the front seat to a 3 person some day soon,
> but 1st things 1st...
>
> I have pictures for anyone interested. I haven't posted them out anywhere
> yet....
>
> Dave
> 85 GL "Baby Bus"
> 85 "Goldy"
> --
> Dave - KC9FYM
> http://fjazzbass.blogspot.com
>