Date:         Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:52:30 -0500
Reply-To:     Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
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From:         Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: Can I bolt it in? install pedestal seat in Westy
Comments: To: Zoltan <zolo@foxinternet.net>
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Zoltan,

I am about 99% certain that every vanagon has the holes in the floor for
bolting down the tracks with bolts welded to the bottom of the van for
the threads to catch those bolts.  Certainly, almost all do.

A Westy body was partially made at a VW factory and then finished off
elsewhere.

I sold a set of tracks and bolts to Jim Felder in AL so that he could
install a pedestal seat in his vanagon.  He just bolted it in - well,
some modifications have to be made to the carpet, but you can see how to
do that by looking at the carpet pattern in a regular passenger van.

I once bought a pedestal seat from a guy and got the pedestal seat and
the tracks as part of the deal, even though I already had tracks.  He
had taken them out of his Westy and wanted to be rid of them also.  He
had wanted to charge me an extra sum of $$ for them, but just gave them
to me when I showed up to get the seat.

And, actually, this part has been covered before, so you are right, it
could be found in the archives.  I don't remember anyone asking about
alternate attachments though.

Sam

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Sam Walters

Baltimore, MD