> Well, I don't know if I should be discusted at the butchered Weekender or > applauding for this persons creativity. > > I bet the westy was a junkyard find with a smashed front end. My sensibilities will not entertain any other notion. One thing about Vanagons, though, at least they're not as slow as unimogs, and they definitely get better gas mileage. 10mpg? 59mph, tops? That's like driving an old splittie with a hole in the fuel tank! But as one 'mogger says on his web site: "If you're going to be a Mogger, the first rule you have to learn is that you're going to be the slowest vehicle on the road. Period. Diesel Volkswagen Rabbits will tear past you. Yugo drivers will sneer as they zoom by. You'll be sucking the exhaust of Geo Metros. Until the pavement ends, that is. Then you'll spend half your time pulling hyper-customized Jeeps out of places they never should have tried to go so you can get through to get to the actual tough parts of the trail." -- John Bange '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger" |
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