Date:         Sat, 29 Apr 2000 00:28:23 -0700
Reply-To:     Antaki <wrack@HOME.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Antaki <wrack@HOME.COM>
Subject:      (f) Re: Startling Nissan Ad- No Vanagon content
Comments: To: Otmar Ebenhoech <otlists@EVCL.COM>
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Ok. now you've got me started on memory lane, here.
Long time ago I had a 1958 VW Van, with a 1600 Dual-Port carb engine in it,
amongst other mods.

I liked to play in that van, too.

Once, I misjudged the depth of a small creek I was crossing at ~20mph, and
hit it rather hard. The folks in the truck following me said that *all four*
of the wheels were airborne coming out of the creek. That little episode
caused the rear suspension to "settle" a wee bit, so now the tires had
neutral camber, rather than the usual positive camber of those models, ie.
the tops of the rear tires were not tilted out anymore. This new adjustment,
along with the van's "flexy frame feature" allowed me to turn fast, with the
outside rear wheel lifted rather high off of the ground.
Never flipped her, although while letting a "trainee" drive it, he took a
hard right too fast.
I was sitting in the passenger seat, and realized we were going over. I
jumped to the wheel and twisted it to the left, brought us all down to
safety again. Couldn't let my baby get tipped, you know. I just wish I could
have seen what it looked like from behind!

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Antaki

 On the other hand....you have different fingers.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Otmar Ebenhoech
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 4:20 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: (f) Re: Startling Nissan Ad
>
>
> At 3:27 PM -0700 4/28/00, Antaki wrote:
> >
> >I have done some VERY spirited driving on twisty roads, and hard
> cornering
> >in my '88 Vanagon, and never once had less than 4 wheels on the
> ground, at
> >least as far as I can tell. They were called "The sports car of
> vans" when
> >they came out.
> >
> >Please tell your son!
>
> You've kept all four wheels on the ground?! Obviously you're not
> going fast enough. I can get at least one wheel in the air in a hard
> corner.
>
>   -Otmar-
> 82/86 Stretch Vanagon Westfalia Syncro GTI. "Power of two"
> http://www.evcl.com/vw
> Several EVs (Electric Vehicles)
>