They are neat creations, but I imagine nightmares in the snow, with serious
injuries in wrecks, even at low speeds.

On 7/19/07, Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net> wrote:
>
> Has anyone tried to fit a Smart Car into a vanagon?  Saw one today in
> downtown Lyle (pop. 300) Wa. and it looked like you could drive it right
> into a GL or a passenger van, cross ways in the slider door...
> Maybe you could put one onto the back receiver hitch platform on a
> Westy..and then you could pretend you are "normal" and have TWO vehicles
> to
> mess with when you go  "camping" or RVing, like most Americans seem to do
> now a days
> Funny lookin little dealies, but they look like they would get the job
> done for transportation, and keep up with the average speed of traffic on
> freeways in our big cities...I read somewhere the average LA freeway speed
> is 18mph, if you figure in all the time you spend on the freeway...The few
> times I've been forced through LA recently, I certainly think that
> estimate
> might be high..
> ciao,
> Don Hanson
>

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Lee