In a message dated 98-03-04 08:39:59 EST, scharff@ENG.KNS.COM writes:

<< I live in the Philadelphia area and have noticed a 2-place bench seat
 (blue velour) out of an'85 Vanagon GL in good shape at a local salvage yard.
You
 can either contact me at the e-mail address below for some info or contact
the
 salvage yard directly (Connors used truck parts (610 828-2682 ask for Doc). I
 have just purchased a similar seat for my Westy. One thing to note is that
with >>

you need to use the middle seat from a weekender (backs fold forward) for
optimum performance.  imo the 7 pass non-weekender fixed middle seats dont cut
it. with the weekender seat, you can fold the seatbacks forward, to acess the
back w/o opening the sliding door.  also -   i'm not even sure the back seat
will fold down w/ the fixed non-wknder middle seat in place....i think you
HAVE to be able to fold the seatbacks forward to fold the back seat into a
bed...

i know of plenty of non-weekender middle seats sitting in junkyards, but they
sit there, cuz they dont work for this application...

chris