Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:11:39 -0700
Reply-To: Annie <lsandrsn@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Annie <lsandrsn@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Middle Seat Graveyard
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With 4 kids, I use my middle seat pretty much every day so it stays in the
van.
But when I bought the van, it was not bolted down and was sitting sideways
against the wall. The guy I bought it from was a brick mason and although
the carpet was totally trashed in the passenger area, the seats are in
surprisingly good shape.
The only problem we generally have is the age old question - "who gets to
use the middle armrest?"
*Annie Anderson* Blogger, Designer, Thinker & Mom
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> I have always wondered this myself, way back to splittie days. You
> seldom got/get a vw bus with the middle seats in place. I think they
> sit around and get spider-ridden or dog-chewed until finally they are
> dragged to the curb.
>
> At one time you could find them in a lot of junkyard buses, but those
> are all but extinct now and the ones I know of use the middle seat for
> a giant sponge for all the oil-leaking pulled mechanical parts piling
> up inside.
>
> I was on the list, years ago, asking for a westy middle seat. I got a
> reply from a college student near Gainesville Florida who was using
> one for a sofa in his small apartment but was moving to a furnished
> place and could not take it with him. He, a rarity among seat owners,
> could not stand to throw it away but held on to it until I came
> through with my westy on the way to Orlando. It was free, as middle
> seats tend to be. I love it on the rare occasions that I use it.
> Otherwise it sits in the garage, covered so as to not become
> spider-ridden and dog-chewed.
>
> JIm
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:18 AM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
> > I'm wondering where the middle seats go to die. What becomes of them.
> > When I bought my '85 GL in Alaska in 1990, the middle seat had already
> > been removed. I sure didn't need it. I would have taken it out had it
> > been there. But whoever brought the '85 to Alaska and sold it, had to
> > have removed it somewhere down south, so where did the middle seat go to
> > die? I now have two '88 GL vans that had middle seats - I never use the
> > middle seats. Where are those seats going to eventually die?
> >
> > In the grand scheme of things, what ever really happens to middle seats,
> > in the end. Anyone put theirs to any special uses? Or do they sit in the
> > back of the garage accumulating dirt and grease until one day they get
> > sent to the dump.
> >
> > John
> >
> > --
> > John Rodgers
> > Clayartist and Moldmaker
> > 88'GL VW Bus Driver
> > Chelsea, AL
> > Http://www.moldhaus.com
> >
>
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