| Subject: | Re: Adding Arm Rests to an Early Vanagon - 1981 |
| From: | Geoffrey Toye <geoffreytoye@GMAIL.COM> |
| Date: | Sat, 15 Feb 2020 23:33:11 -0500 |
Awesome, thanks for the info!
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 8:01 PM Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi Geoffrey,
>
> Not only do the early seats not have arm rests but I’m pretty sure
> they had the old style horse hair construction. If that is the case I’d
> sure recommend upgrading to a later vanagon foam seat.
>
> I suspect a little looking around would locate some. I actually
> know someone with two but they are grey and you would want brown or good
> seat covers!
> I have ridden in the earlier seats and it reminds me of my old bay
> windows. All good but man the Vanagon seats are a nice upgrade and should
> be a straight swap. But I do think there is a difference between Westy
> seats and vanagon seats so watch out for that. The Vanagon seats I’m told
> are larger so if you have swivels it is a problem.
>
> Eric
>
>
>
>
> > On Feb 15, 2020, at 5:15 PM, Geoffrey Toye <geoffreytoye@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Has anybody added arm rests to the stock early Vanagon front seats?
> >
> > Swapping for later GL style seats would be an option, if I could find
> some
> > that is.
>
>