Date:         Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:03:22 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Lost the post with the cute little vanagon trailers....
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <4ABA75B5.9050002@gmail.com>
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Thank you all, that is the one I was looking for.  Pricey little things,
aren't they?  Some common features on the comercial teardrop shaped ones.  I
see more of these type trailers being used behind smaller vehicles lately.
  Don Hanson

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>
>>