I hear complaints about the early seats, but I was driving my top-of-the
line Carat for years while I was also drivingly my 83 (with 355K miles and
the original seats, so you have to admit they are durable) and I really
couldn't see much difference. I actually prefer the spacious access between
the seats and would not want the armrests in the way again. After an all
day drive in either car, neither stood out to mess very different from the
other (the Carat sat lower than the Westy, of course). Some people like
soft, some like firm, VW seems to get it about right on most of their cars.

Everybody in the family complains about the seats in my wife's Prius after
anything longer than a drive around town.

Jim

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com>wrote:

> Brown velour if you please!  An upgrade to the woven fabric on the earlier
> style seats used from '80-'84.  Trust me, it is an upgrade, as are the
> seats themselves!
>
> Stuart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of Jim Felder
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 11:46 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Craigslist Ad
>
> Brown comes to mind.
>
> : )
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@mymts.net> wrote:
>
> > So what do we call that upholstery?  I have the same stuff.
> >
> > Jeff
> > 85 Westfalia GL
> >
> > On 2014-04-14, at 7:12 AM, J Stewart wrote:
> >
> > > Wow, somebody better jump on this quick!! Obviously belonged to person
> > who parked by "sound".
> > >
> > > http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/ctd/4420035169.html
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jeff Stewart
> > >
> >
>
>