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Subject:Re: Will later seats fit?
From:Martin Garramone
Date:Tue, 4 Oct 1994 10:15:46 -0500 (CDT)

On Sat, 1 Oct 1994, J. Walker wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Oct 94 11:09:37 CDT Martin Garramone said:
> >'68 Westie that I'm currently working on (bought with blown engine).
> >Will front seats from any other model VW fit this bus WITHOUT modification?
> >I'd rather not have to modify the seat mounts if at all possible.
> 
> i'm not 100 percent certain, but they sure LOOK like the same rails. but i
> don't have anything to compare my vanagon with, so i can't be sure. best
> way would be to go to a junkyard and check it out. cause i'm working from
> memory here ... and my memory has been shown to be flakey at times. :)
> at the very worst, you could get some later bread-loaf seats ... like from a
> 1978 or 79. but that's not very much different from what you have on the 68.
> 
> joel
> 

I went to the local VW boneyard yesterday with a tape measure.  It looks 
like all bread-loaf seats are the same (at least on the bottom).  Vanagon 
seats seem to be about 1/4 in. wider at the seat track.  I don't know 
about the Eurovans.  They did have one but I didn't bother measuring it.

Martin.