You can find a donor Vanagon at a wrecking yard and get the interior with
nice seats /w arm rests, fabric door panels etc and upgrade. All panels
interchange until you get to 85 and the sliding door panel is too long.

Stan Wilder

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:30:35 -0800 Melissa Mourkas <westywoman@MAC.COM>
writes:
> on 2/5/02 7:03 PM, John Reynolds at kayakjr@JUNO.COM wrote:
>
> > My 81 has plastic vents.
> >
> > One interior that I have seen only on an air cooled Vanagon is
> what was
> > termed the "Basic Camper"- it had  full width rear seat and small
> seat
> > against the driver's side wall adjacent to the rear seat that
> formed an L
> > shaped seating arangement in the back.  The seat has storage
> underneath -
> > think cabinet with pad on top and back rest.  It has an ice box
> instead
> > of the fridge, a sink, a slightly bigger water tank but no stove.
>
> Jeepers, sounds just like my 1981 Basic Camper!  And it's a pretty
> basic
> Vanagon, as well: no rear wiper, cheap wall paper throughout, no
> factory
> radio or speakers, and "Boogie Woogie" upholstery, so I am told (or
> was that
> Mauie Wowie?  I can't remember!).
>
> Oh, and black plastic vents, too!
>
> My 1981 Camper Owner's Manual details both the "Basic" and "Deluxe"
> campers.
>
>
> --
> Melissa Mourkas
> 81 Westy Basic Camper 'Hilde'
>
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