Sounds good,  My college self was not so careful.  Friends were lifted in chair and all and off we went. 

        I would be more careful today.

Ironically later a friend got a Econo van and could lock her chair in front of the steering wheel.  But her chair didn’t have a seat belt.  I took belts from my bus, probably from the removed center seat and sewed her a seat belt that attached to her chair.  Her chair was bolted to the floor when driving.

She used that set up for many years.

Eric Caron 

> On Aug 7, 2022, at 2:26 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> With the two jump seats out, my passenger transferred herself to the rear
> seat where I helped with the seat belt. Then the chair was folded and
> placed in the "trunk." No modifications were required for the van.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 12:47 PM David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I am sure that Professor Hawkings van is equipped to lock the chair in
>> place securely.  I am sure you so equipped yours, also.  How?
>> 
>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 7:59 AM Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> When I bought my 1990 Carat brand new off the lot, the dealer passed along
>>> a $1000 discount if I could prove that the car would be used to transport
>>> a
>>> wheelchair-bound person, which it did. It came with a video showing all
>>> the
>>> built-in adaptations. At the time I bought the car it was the only one
>>> available to me that did not have a step inside the slider. Since the
>>> floor
>>> was flat, I didn't need a ramp. I just rocked the chair back, put the
>>> front
>>> wheels on the floor, lifted that back and pushed it in. The seats of
>>> course
>>> just clipped in and out on the carat.
>>> 
>>> Jim
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 9:36 AM Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> How interesting!  Such a brilliant person and he preferred a vW vanagon
>>>> for his ride!
>>>> 
>>>>        In college I got my first bay window.  I removed the middle seat
>>>> both for a bed but also to fit several friends who used wheelchairs.
>>> Later
>>>> a student using a electric chair purchased a twin to my bus and used a
>>> ramp
>>>> to drive up into it.  Frankly not the most likely of vans for
>>> Accessability
>>>> but it worked.
>>>> 
>>>> Today I still have a friend that uses a vanagon and a wheelchair.  No
>>> lift
>>>> in any of these vans but I’ve heard of lift equipped vanagons.
>>>> 
>>>> I’m pretty sure this particular van is out of my reach.
>>>> 
>>>> Eric Caron
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 7, 2022, at 8:52 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://apple.news/AiGCwilHJT6SI5WbMeKKiSw
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>