| There is no way anyone is going to install a battery behind the driver's
| seat because of the steering wheel in the way of turning around the seat
to
| properly expose the battery compartment. Unless you radically mutilate
your
| vanagon.

    Hmmmm.....seems to me that the funny looking yellow top battery that I
installed in the well behind the drivers seat of our Westy said Optima on
it.

    Had a choice of slight modifications to make, either notch the steel
baseplate of the seat in two spots (to lay the battery on its side) or cut
two holes in the cover for the posts to stick up through (my choice in the
end, due to a lack of cutting tools!).  No radical moves needed!

Mark
82 Westy