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Sun Nov 08, 2020 4:14 am

I purchased an 87 for a parts van. The front, middle seats have armrest and the back is a full width fold down bed. It has 110 volt plug in the side panel and red switches and an external plug in.
What model is this?

Sun Nov 08, 2020 5:07 am

Post some photos of it.

Let us see the outside ipower plug and the switches you speak of.

KAM, one of the moderators here, has a very good model ID page on her site. Go to her sig line and you will find a link.

Dave

Sun Nov 08, 2020 5:13 am

Then again, no she doesn't, she has a link to her car but you can muddle through that site and find the site for her Van....... but to make life easy for you.......
Here it is.

http://www.oldbluesblog.com/

Dave

Sun Nov 08, 2020 5:23 am

The outer plug has been removed and foil taped over
It had two batteries
I’ve already pulled all the seats to clean them
I’ll post what I can

Sun Nov 08, 2020 5:31 am

Looks to me that you have a
Vanagon GL Wolfsburg edition.
7 passenger with fold down rear bed.

The exterior plug and interior 2nd battery and 110 electrics were added by a previous owner.

I did this very thing to my 86 Wolfsburg Multivan (weekender)

Dave

Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:51 am

mike-buggsbuggy wrote: I purchased an 87 for a parts van. The front, middle seats have armrest and the back is a full width fold down bed. It has 110 volt plug in the side panel and red switches and an external plug in.
What model is this?

Assuming this is a USA spec van...
This looks to be a standard '87 GL with the optional "Weekender Package" . "Weekender Package" (in original VW definition) was for a passenger van and meant that it has the fold-down rear seat and cushion over the engine compartment.

No '87 passenger van came an outside electrical hookup or a 2nd battery, so this was added by a previous owner.

You say "middle seats have armrest", so this precludes it being an '87 Wolfsburg passenger van which came with rear-facing jump seats behind the driver and front passenger, without armrests.

Here's your van at Vanagons.org:
https://www.vanagons.org/87-vanagon-gl.html

Jim Davis