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Subject:Re: Maximum Occupancy of a Westy?
From:Tom Buese
Date:Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:19:12 -0600

On Sep 29, 2008, at 12:25 PM, ChrisTopHer wrote:

> Max I've had was seven adults, but we were driving to the beach and
> everyone
> had a seat belt.

Yep, there should be 2 different classifications- driving or non
driving.

Mr. BZ-seat belts for the pets are essential

> This was with the aid of a front Transporter bench and a
> middle west bench seat.
> Christopher
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Spent a long weekend in the Moab, Utah area camping/bike riding/
>> hiking w/ my business partners & their families & had a wind storm
>> blow in on Saturday pm & last most of the night. Since I had the only
>> Westy, we all took refuge in it during the wind, & managed to fit 5
>> adults, 4 kids, & 3 dogs including my Great Pyrenees, Carl,
>> comfortably in the Westy?  Cocktails were handy, the kids loved the
>> upper level, & the dogs occupied the floor area.  Where else could
>> you do this in a daily driver? BTW, no Westy's were harmed in this
>> experiment, but the chocolate Lab puppy, Chip, did manage to chew on
>> my sink drain cap, but to no harm.  Anyone fit more volks/pets in
>> their vanagon at 1 time than us?
>>
>> YMMV,
>>
>> Mr. BZ
>>