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Only one seat was actually fastened to the tracks. The rest were bolted to the floor. Each had to be ground off with an angle grinder. Six bolts per seat, nine seats... Got all that finished yesterday.

The tie down tracks were for the wheelchair ratchet straps. The bus was configured for 4 wheelchairs. The wheelchair occupants then each had a shoulder seat belt that fastened to a similar track on the walls above the windows in each of the four spots. All those tracks have to come up, as does the floor ... eventually. The floor is linoleum over plywood over steel. The tracks are aluminum and show heavy galvanic corrosion from being bolted to the steel floor with steel bolts. So there's probably corrosion of the steel floor and wheel wells that I should deal with before I get too crazy with the interior build out. The tracks also make it somewhat unfriendly for wheel chairs, oddly enough -- they'll catch the front caster wheels on Peg's chair and make it hard/annoying for her to maneuver in there.