In a message dated 10/13/99 7:46:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
AndrewD158@AOL.COM writes:

<< Does anyone know of an easy way to remove the center bench seat on a
 vanagon?Maybe I missed some trick.
 TKS >>

yea..  you take a knife, and cut/rip the carpet.........    :<)

(as so many DPO's have done before...)

here's how.
-remove aluminum sliding doorsill plate.
-carpet is not glued down, so start rolling it back, from the sliding door,
then from in front of the seat, to back, until all of it is out of the way of
the seat.
-unbolt little bolts that hold the seat to the track.
-remove small piece of corkboard between seat and sliding door
-slide it out.

chris