FWIW, my '86 Westy has middle seat rails and seat.  VIN ending in 022286.

http://www.sirenandgeek.com/modules/gallery/albums/Westy/191213_G.jpg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Demarest" <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 1:35 PM
Subject: [VANAGON] Middle seat rails

> 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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