ah ha..........I missed that it's an 84 Wolfy passenger van. I'm not sure
I've ever seen one. Wolfy Westy, in 84 (first year of that maybe )
...several of those.

I see.......the only wooden base ones I have seen are in westy's . Didn't
know there was a wooden base 3 across seat. Changes the whole picture. I DO
like the storage that's under the wooden base rear seats ........like the 2
person one in westy's.  A 3 person one in a passenger van .......sounds nice
!

no westy's or vanagons with wooden base seats here right now .......
still wondering about 'hinge straps' ............don't remember anything
like that in a westy rear wooden base seat .

thanks for the note !
scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "mark drillock" <mdrillock@cox.net>
To: "Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
Cc: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: Seat/Bed Swap

> He said he had an 84 Wolfy passenger van, a unique model and rare. Those
> are unlike any other GL bed. They are full width wooden base Westy beds
> with all that storage. Best bed/bench ever fitted, IMHO.
>
> Similar to the later Wolfy Poptop bed 85-87 only with a wooden face and
> more storage room inside. The same type of hinge straps as all the wooden
> base beds.
>
> Mark
>
> Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>> Sure isn't my experience.......
>> and I'm curious what is meant by 'hinge straps'.
>> All I see is pivot points, linkage bars, etc.  No hinges at all actually.
>> Just places things pivot on pins.
>>
>> maybe we're talking about different things.
>> I just looked at my 85 Adventurewagon, where I took out a GL style 'plane
>> rear seat' ...........
>> and put in a Z bed from an 87 GL I believe.
>> Nothing is involved with the floor of the van that I can see. The seat
>> doesn't even touch the floor of the van.  I didn't drill anything either.
>> I have just that one not-perfect thing about where the top of the seat
>> back latches to 'posts' ....
>> I need to relocate those, where they are screwed into the side of the
>> van, but it's working fine without those anyway.
>> Scott
>> www.turbovans.com
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "mark drillock" <mdrillock@COX.NET>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 8:56 AM
>> Subject: Re: Seat/Bed Swap
>>
>>
>>> If you won't drill holes it won't work. The 2 hinge straps need holes
>>> and there are I think at least 2 of the base holes than can be drilled
>>> and bolted through the floor.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> Brendan Slevin wrote:
>>>> So I was trying to figure out if I can swap the Z-Bed from the 84
>>>> Wolfsburg
>>>> in to the 87 Syncro which only has the fold forward seat.  It looks
>>>> like the
>>>> syncro seat will bolt right into the 84, no problem.  But the Syncro
>>>> lacks
>>>> (I think) the threaded holes to bolt the seat bed to the floor of the
>>>> van
>>>> and to the rear deck of the van.  Is it possible at all to fit the
>>>> Z-bed to
>>>> the syncro?  I don't want to do much in the way of
>>>> drilling/fabricating.
>>>>
>>>> Brendan
>>>>
>>