In a message dated 6/27/05 4:36:50 PM, j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM writes:

<<  . . . how dirt road worthy is the 2wd Vanagon?  How good is the traction?
>>

Dry dirt roads?  Only limitation is the ground clearance and the driver.  Mud
or grass covered dirt, forget about it.  Someone once posted to this list
about seeing 2WD Vanagons with posi rear ends in the mountains of Central
America, where roads are little more than cowpaths, which could go damn near anywhere.

George