"And there'll be none of that tired old furlongs per
fortnight silliness.�"
�
Parsecs per sidereal unit?� Gotta be forward thinking.
�
Stephen

--- On Fri, 6/18/10, Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: The Vanagon as a standard unit of volume
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, June 18, 2010, 9:42 AM

As I stood next to a Fleetwood Bounder 38P -- the biggest damn RV I have
ever seen, it's like standing next to a billboard -- I wondered how many
Vanagons one could fit inside one of those beasts.

Assume the Vanagon and the Bounder to be rectangular prisms with the
following dimensions:

Vanagon: 15' x 6'4'' x 6'1''
Bounder 38P: 38'3'' x 12'10'' x 8'

(Units are feet-inches.)

Based on this, you can pour 6.8 Vanagons into one Bounder.

I hereby propose the "Vanagon" as the standard unit of volume.

For example: one Vanagon is about 16387 liters. So the 1.9l Vanagon
engine shall henceforth be known as the 0.000115, or 115 microvanagon
engine. By the same token, the 2.1l engine is now the 128 microvanagon
engine.

I will leave conversion of the fuel and oil capacities as an exercise
for the student. And there'll be none of that tired old furlongs per
fortnight silliness.� It was funny the first time. The first time was a
long, long time ago.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR