John,

I have always wondered this myself, way back to splittie days. You
seldom got/get a vw bus with the middle seats in place. I think they
sit around and get spider-ridden or dog-chewed until finally they are
dragged to the curb.

At one time you could find them in a lot of junkyard buses, but those
are all but extinct now and the ones I know of use the middle seat for
a giant sponge for all the oil-leaking pulled mechanical parts piling
up inside.

I was on the list, years ago, asking for a westy middle seat. I got a
reply from a college student near Gainesville Florida who was using
one for a sofa in his small apartment but was moving to a furnished
place and could not take it with him. He, a rarity among seat owners,
could not stand to throw it away but held on to it until I came
through with my westy on the way to Orlando. It was free, as middle
seats tend to be. I love it on the rare occasions that I use it.
Otherwise it sits in the garage, covered so as to not become
spider-ridden and dog-chewed.

JIm

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:18 AM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
> �I'm wondering where the middle seats go to die. What becomes of them.
> When I bought my '85 GL in Alaska in 1990, the middle seat had already
> been removed. I sure didn't need it. I would have taken it out had it
> been there. But whoever brought the '85 to Alaska and sold it, had to
> have removed it somewhere down south, so where did the middle seat go to
> die? I now have two '88 GL vans that had middle seats - I never use the
> middle seats. Where are those seats going to eventually die?
>
> In the grand scheme of things, what ever really happens to middle seats,
> in the end. Anyone put theirs to any special uses? Or do they sit in the
> back of the garage accumulating dirt and grease until one day they get
> sent to the dump.
>
> John
>
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> John Rodgers
> Clayartist and Moldmaker
> 88'GL VW Bus Driver
> Chelsea, AL
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