Jim,
At least you were stuck in a vanagon vs. some small car.
When my 89 gave up I car camped in it for a day in LA.
Walked to grocery store got some goods set up the table in the van and made lunch.
Also pulled the curtains and got some good well needed rest till I had arrangements for hauling it home.

I did call U-Haul and guess what?
The will not allow you to tow a vanagon on a dolly with anything but a large truck.
I have a Ranger 4wd and they would not allow me to use it to tow.

I believe it would have been fine but their chart said the vanagon was a too big to tow with my Ranger.

Doug

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Kennedy 
  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
  Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 12:48 PM
  Subject: What to do if you're really stranded in a Vanagon

  What to do if you're really stranded in a Vanagon, far from home and cannot
  effect repairs.

  Once when traveling with my wife and 3 little people from Grand Junction
  Colorado to home in San Diego in my '87 GL, it started doing the Digifant
  dive.  Lurch, cough, blah.  You haven't lived until you coast deadstick to
  the side of I-70 in Utah FAR from ANYTHING with your family of 5, on a 100
  degree summer day.  Not even cellphone coverage.  This was my first
  experience with this kind of glitch, and I was clueless.  Fortunately I was
  able to get it to the next town (Salina).  This is what you do.  Get ahold
  of a Uhaul and TOW DOLLY and you are set.  Expensive save, but it's just a
  good thing to remember...

  Jim
  San Diego '87 GL