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Subject:Middle seat rails
From:Tim Demarest
Date:Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:35:34 -0400

Hmm... I've never seen an '86 or newer with factory seat rails... early VIN
for '86?

At 01:04 PM 9/28/2004 -0700, Tom Sinclair wrote:
>My 84 Wolfsburg Westy and 86 Westy both have the seat
>rails.  Only the 84 came with the seat though.
>
>Tom
>
>
>--- Jeff at Vanagonparts <jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM>
>wrote:
>
> > I currently have 3 '85 Westies in the shop and all
> > of them have the center
> > seat rails.  Perhaps the center seat option was
> > common on '85s.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jeff
> > www.vanagonparts.com
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List
> > [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> > Of Kim Brennan
> > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:13 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: A little more to the story of how we
> > got our Vanagon...
> >
> >
> > Looks like a pretty decent van on the outside. You
> > have something
> > special in that it appears to have been outfitted
> > for the center seat.
> > If you lift the carpet you should see a couple of
> > rails that a center
> > seat slides onto. That usually wasn't an option
> > available on US vans,
> > so you might have a Canadian model (unless it was
> > retrofitted by a
> > previous owner.)
> >
> > You didn't have an pictures of the drivers side, so
> > I can't tell for
> > sure.
> >
>
>
>
>
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