

| 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.
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