When I moved a few years ago I put 32 milk crates full of vinyl records plus a few boxes in my '85 Westy "Weekender". It lowered the vehicle significantly, to say the least. Last year in May I drove to from Asheville to Mt. Mitchell with some friends of mine and our children, again, in the '85 Westy: Me - 180 lbs. Ed - 265 lbs. Gina - 235 lbs. Child 1 - 165 lbs. Child 2 - 95 lbs. Child 3 - 40 lbs. Child 4 - 40 lbs. TOTAL - 1020 lbs of humans, plus gear. I had to be rather careful taking left-hand curves since Gina and Ed were both sitting on the right side of the vehicle. :-)
===== Chris S. '84 Westy -> http://www.knology.net/~vwghost/hershey/ '01 NB TDI -> http://www.knology.net/~vw/Beetle.jpg |
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