Date:         Wed, 3 Aug 2005 07:39:35 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon tongue wait
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Actually, it seems you could do a good job of sharing the braking load
with the toad, assuming it has good brakes too. You just need to find
the right brake system.

What you'll never be able to share with the Thing is power. Imagine
sitting at a stop light in 100 degree heat at the bottom of a mountain
that just rises up like a wall in front of you.

That would give me butterflies in either vanagon (that would be John or
Wallace).

I started this post. Did I actually type "wait" instead of "weight" in
the title?

<shame>

Jim

On Aug 3, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Robert Cardo wrote:

> <<<I'm trying to figure out if I can tow my 73 Thing.>>>
>
> The only problem here that I can see is what do you do when you want to
> stop this rig?
>
> Like in a hurry?
>
> I can feel the butterflies in my gut right now, mashing on the pedal at
> a quicked changed stoplight and the Thing and the Van blowing right
> through on the red.
>
> This would be my only concern.
>