I'll bet that if you check the load rating for the vanagon and the truck,
you'll find the van can carry more!!  I put 2 tons of rock in mine a few
years ago and the springs still had a useable amount of travel left.  Talk
about no power - really slow going.

Tom Goff - 1984 full Westy - original ower, 85K miles - Highland, MD

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Matthew Pollard wrote:

> Good morning vanagon support group,
> my wife and I have a dilema.  Here is the rundown. We are both grad
> students and we own three cars.  We would like to cut back to two cars
> only. Now here is the kicker, which one to sell?
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