right, that front wheel location is a real problem ..
not easily just moved forward at all.
which made me think of using smaller wheels, to reduce the Clown Car
appearance ..
huge tires and wheel base that short relative to tire size makes it look
like a circus clown car.

but not easy to re-do the body work for new wheel locations, never mind
moving the suspension,
but more ambitious things than that have been done .

----- Original Message -----
From: "BenT Syncro" <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Anybody seen a chopped and shortened Vanagon?

> On Jun 22, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
> <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM
> > wrote:
>
>> unfortunately it 'looks wrong' with the hyper short wheel base..
>> but it would be a horrible engineering challenge to move the wheels
>> closer
>> to the ends to keep the proportions right and wheel base useful, for
>> the
>> size of this van.
>
>
> I did ask the fabricator about moving the wheels forward in the
> interest of driving stability and improved appearance (IMHO).
>
> I was thinking put the door step to the rear and entire wheel opening
> forward. The labor cost jumps dramatically.
>
>
> BenT