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 |
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