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Subject:Re: '83 Folding Rear Seat
Date:Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:54:06 EDT

In a message dated 6/4/03 4:19:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dlu@CANISHE.COM
writes:

> We've got a watercooled '83 GL.  It has a folding rear seat that seems
> to match the rest of the car -- but the latches on the seat don't even
> come close to the pegs that should hold the seat back in place.  So I'm
> thinking that this must not be the original seat.  Hoping that there
> might have been two rear seat configurations that year I pulled the side
> panels off on one side, but there is only one hole for the peg.
>
>

if youve got a handle in the middle of the back part of the seatback, and no
flip down armrests, then its a weekender sofabed out of a 85 up van.   if so,
you can cut and reposition the plate that holds the studs back furthur.
chris