<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE> <P>Wait a second....I'm hearing a double standard. The last two years vanagon calanders have pictured Vanagons up to their eyeballs (headlights) in water. Are those special edition anphibious vanagons? I agree with John's post, but I'm still curious as to how the vans in the calander get away with "swimming in the deep end".</P> <P>Dan<BR><BR></P></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #a0c6e5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif"> <HR color=#a0c6e5 SIZE=1> <DIV></DIV>From: <I>John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET></I><BR>To: <I>vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM</I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: How Deep Can a Vanagon Go</I><BR>Date: <I>Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:44:49 -0600</I><BR>Steve,<BR><BR>Don't go there. Would hate to read a newspaper story about a drowned<BR>Vanagon owner.<BR><BR>If you have moving water over a couple of inches deep, it's way to<BR>dangerous. A foot of water with any movement can move your vehicle right<BR>off the road, then you will be in real du-du because most roads are<BR>slightly elevated above the shoulder for drainage purposes. Immediately<BR>off the road the water deepens quickly. You would be going from the<BR>frying pan into the fire.<BR><BR>Steve Young wrote:<BR>>Hi List,<BR>><BR>>El Nino, global warming and the Pacific is taking its toll on the <BR>>road to my house. It dips down as it passes an estuary and for the <BR>>second time in the past couple of weeks it had something over a foot <BR>>of water on it for about 150m or so. To date I've chickened out <BR>>testing the vanagon through the floods but I'm sorely tempted. The <BR>>alternative adds about 20 min travel time (at least there is an <BR>>alternative).<BR>><BR>>So what can a vanagon safely get through? Mine's is an '84 standard <BR>>watercooled westie generally loaded with kids, babies and shopping.<BR>><BR>>Cheers,<BR>><BR>>Steve<BR>><BR>>__________________________________________________<BR>>Do You Yahoo!?<BR>>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around<BR>>http://mail.yahoo.com<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div><br clear=all><hr> <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMBENUS/2743??PS=47575" target="_top">Communicate instantly! Use your Hotmail address to sign into Windows Live Messenger now. </a> </html> |
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