Date:         Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:23:33 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Lost the post with the cute little vanagon trailers....
Comments: To: Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
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Our bitty Westrailia weighs in at 250 lbs, dry. With camping gear and
firewood in it, can't hardly tell it's behind me (in Billy Bob Thornton
"Slingblade" voice) Uh-hummm.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR



On 9/23/2009 11:46 AM Allan Streib wrote:

> http://www.vwcampervanblog.com/25-cool-vintage-retro-micro-caravans-to-compliment-your-vw-camper-van/
>
> I would suggest, and I've been thinking about it myself... if you do build a camper trailer out of a Vanagon it will be pretty heavy.  Not sure the WBX would be so good at pulling it.  There's also the matter of stopping it.  I just towed a parts van about 50 miles in the rain on a tow dolly.  It had the engine and transmission removed.  It was still heavy enough that my vehicle (4wd Nissan Frontier) threatened to jack knife on the wet roads several times.
>
> You would want to set up brakes on the trailer, for sure.
>
> Allan
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:01 -0700, "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> Recently someone sent a link to a whole bunch of small trailers:
>> Teardrops,
>> etc.  I was really intrigued and I 'put' that link somewhere...now I
>> can't
>> find it.  Did anyone else save it or does the OP still have it, if anyone
>> else remembers it.  There were some cut-up Vanagons and other vans
>> converted
>> to trailers at the bottom of all the various trailer pics shown on the
>> link.
>>    If anyone has that I certainly would like to look at it again...PM me
>>    the
>> reference anyone?
>>   Thanks,  Don Hanson
>