Date:         Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:26:42 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Maximum Occupancy of a Westy?
Comments: To: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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Never owned a Westy, so closest I can come to is to tell of the couple
that got standed in Moose Passe in Alask when both ends of the pass were
closed by avalances for three days one winter.They were in a early
aircooled "Westy", Another couple and their son were also stranded at
the same time but they were in their car. It could have been a serious
survival episode, but the Westy folk and the couple with the kid
connected and all 5 spent the three days in the Westy until the highway
crews could get through. Everyone was fine.

As for me, my only claim to fame was once when I had my 85GL I hauled
1500 pounds of plaster and clay about from Anchorage to Kenai, AK - a
drive of about 150 miles though the Chugach  Mountains. It was in
summer. never had a lick of trouble - a bit slow climbing up into
Turnagain Pass and then later up into Moose Pass. Most times when not
going up hill I crusied at 50 mph. Wouldn't do much better with that
load, but the machine handled it well. The load sat on a pallette in the
middle of the floor between the front and back seats.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Tom Buese wrote:
> Spent a long weekend in the Moab, Utah area camping/bike riding/
> hiking w/ my business partners & their families & had a wind storm
> blow in on Saturday pm & last most of the night. Since I had the only
> Westy, we all took refuge in it during the wind, & managed to fit 5
> adults, 4 kids, & 3 dogs including my Great Pyrenees, Carl,
> comfortably in the Westy?  Cocktails were handy, the kids loved the
> upper level, & the dogs occupied the floor area.  Where else could
> you do this in a daily driver? BTW, no Westy's were harmed in this
> experiment, but the chocolate Lab puppy, Chip, did manage to chew on
> my sink drain cap, but to no harm.  Anyone fit more volks/pets in
> their vanagon at 1 time than us?
>
> YMMV,
>
> Mr. BZ
>
>