In a message dated 98-03-04 08:39:59 EST, scharff@ENG.KNS.COM writes: << I live in the Philadelphia area and have noticed a 2-place bench seat (blue velour) out of an'85 Vanagon GL in good shape at a local salvage yard. You can either contact me at the e-mail address below for some info or contact the salvage yard directly (Connors used truck parts (610 828-2682 ask for Doc). I have just purchased a similar seat for my Westy. One thing to note is that with >>
you need to use the middle seat from a weekender (backs fold forward) for optimum performance. imo the 7 pass non-weekender fixed middle seats dont cut it. with the weekender seat, you can fold the seatbacks forward, to acess the back w/o opening the sliding door. also - i'm not even sure the back seat will fold down w/ the fixed non-wknder middle seat in place....i think you HAVE to be able to fold the seatbacks forward to fold the back seat into a bed... i know of plenty of non-weekender middle seats sitting in junkyards, but they sit there, cuz they dont work for this application... chris |
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