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Date:         Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:33:18 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Michael Elliott <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      General/Sorta dirt-road worthiness of 2WD Vanagons?
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Compared with other 2wd vehicles, like full-size pickup trucks, and mid-60's station wagons . . . how dirt road worthy is the 2wd Vanagon? How good is the traction? I'm talking about rutted sand and gravel roads out here, not mud or streams. Not dunes or beaches. No swamps. Regular street tires, stock size.

Generally-speaking. Anecdotal is good. The more colorful the better.

As in, "Vanagons get stuck more easily than any other 2wd vehicle ever made," or "I've taken my 2wd Vanagon places that my brother's 1963 Plymouth Belvedere station wagon couldn't go."

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") Carlsbad, CA KG6RCR


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