In a message dated 12/15/06 1:38:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
npoole@TELUS.NET writes:

> Can anyone tell me what year VW upgraded the interior of their
> vanagons/westies? My '80 Riviera has a standard truck interior - rubber
> floor mat, steel dash, plain vinyl seats. Later models have spinning
> captain's chairs, carpeted interior, padded dash etc. What year(s) did this
> transition take place?
>
>

well '85 was the first year for the padded dash and velour interior and capt.
chairs w/ armrests on the westys (barring the special '84 wolfsburg edition
westy)

all  vanagon westys since 1980 had carpet and swival seats.

usually ASI aka Riviera campers were converted from base model vanagons
during 80-83.. then 84 up they were converted from 7 pass GL's..

chris..