Well, in a backhanded way, it sorta does. If you had everything a Vanagon
has in a package that got terrible gas mileage, wouldn't fit inside a home
garage, was too big to drive and park around town, and nobody knew how to
work on, you probably wouldn't want it. In the Vanagon's case, small is
better.

Jim

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Raimund Feussner <ray@v6bus.de> wrote:

> Size doesn't matter, again
>
> ----- Urspr�ngliche Nachricht -----
> Von: ralph meyermann
> Gesendet: 18.01.2014 11:17
> An: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Betreff: Re: Versatile Vanagon opens MoHo owner's eyes
>
> With a little peer pressure we can open the blind eyes to the abilities of
> Vanagons/Westy. All the fun but in a small package!
>
> Velma 82 1.9L AAZ td westy
> On Jan 18, 2014 10:03 AM, "dhanson928@gmail.com" <dhanson928@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > I took a bike-buddy for a day trip in my  84 tintop with most of a Westie
> > interior yesterday.  They have a 2nd home on a golf course here in the
> > California desert, travel in a top-tier motorcoach (39' two pop-outs)
> pull
> > a jeep and leave a Buick SUV here when at their San Juan Island house.
> >    But Rich has no bike rack, and we wanted to drive up into the
> mountains
> > to Julian, Ca. to ride around a 50 mile loop, so we took my van....after
> > Rich assured me that he didn't mind dog hair.
> >   Up a very twisty road to the mt. Tourist town of Julian, where we
> parked
> > on the mainstreet,  changed, filled our waterbottles and went for the
> r�de.
> >  Came in, rinsed-off from the sink, went out to lunch, then returned via
> > the other road to our desert town, again on a steep and twisting highway
> > with many 15mph corners.  Drove about 80 miles, used just over 3 gals of
> > gas, sat around in the Vanagon,  comfortably B.S.ing for a bit...Took a
> > short off-road excursion to a desert overlook .
> > My buddy told me he was way surprised at how he had just spent part of
> his
> > day driving around the mountains and hanging out in a 30yr old VW van,
> and
> > he LIKED IT, a lot!
> >
> > Sent from my HTC smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint!
> >
> >
>