Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 05:50:25 EDT
Reply-To: JordanVw@AOL.COM
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From: JordanVw@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: wierd interior in '87 ebay syncro.......
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In a message dated 9/28/02 6:02:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
rayreinhard@SBCGLOBAL.NET writes:
> I don't think he changed anything. Our '86 Westy GL (non-syncro) has
> exactly the same exterior/interior color scheme. The only very slight
> difference is the pattern of the cloth upholstery; ours has a light
> "herringbone" pattern, while this one has small squares.
>
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this is a passenger van, yours is a full GL westy :<) the interior of this
87 seven passenger syncro in question - and when i say interior, im just
referring to the rear passenger area, not the front cab area - has been
changed.. the passenger interior pictured was never offered by vw in that
color. the front cab area is stock, with its tan captains chairs unchanged.
the only tan plastic side panels w/ flip out table were on the '85-87 non-GL
westy weekenders, like mark D. said. i have one of these interiors sitting
in my barn now, for sale by the way.. nonetheless, the 85-87 non-gl westy
weekenders had a camper style rear sofabed - full length.. it was the
plywood framed sofabed like in the full westys. it bolts to the floor - not
the wall - like the passenger van weekender sofabeds and the carat and wolfy
sofabeds do. so therefore there is no seatback release mechanism or posts
that stick out from the side walls like the regular weekender interiors,
carats, and wolfy pass vans. the tan panels had a formed part that the
seatback rested on, with L shaped metal brackets underneath the plastic. so
if the owner of this '87 syncro passenger van in question put the sidepanels
in there from a 85-87 non-gl westy weekender then he had to do some serious
mods - because thats definately not a westy weekender rear sofabed in there.
If you look at the left side of the seatback - you can see that it slopes
inward about 5'" from the top.. that means it is a carat or wolfsburg
passenger van rear sofabed. because the regular tan weekender sofabeds in
the passenger vanagons are too wide to use with the plastic sidepanels.
so the mystery is solved.? heres my hypothesis:
front cab area stock tan, unchanged. rear passenger area - plastic
sidepanels from a '85-87 westy weekender (or from a carat or wolfy with a
good tan paint job over the grey - you CAN paint plastic)
grey rear sofabed and jumpseats from a carat or wolfy passenger van dyed or
reupholstered tan.
now someone needs to contact the seller and prove me wrong :<)
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