Date:         Wed, 22 May 1996 09:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Maher, Steve (SD-MS)" <SMAHER@gi.com>
Subject:      RE: towing boat


>This is becoming surreal ;)

I was wondering when someone would notice.

>And all the paleo-poster wanted to know was whether he could dunk the
>engine in the water without expecting damage, to which the answer is "no."
>;)

Yup. And so someone else (meso-poster?) suggested putting a second hitch
on the front of the bus, to be used in "fronting" the boat into the water.
Since this has probably been rarely tried, I tried to compare it to a FWD
car backing a boat in-- engine high and dry, far from the wa-wa, sitting
over the driving wheels, while the sheet-metal end of the car gets a little
dunked. Probably been done a fair amount since the '80s.

Lo and behold, that's just like... A VW BUS WITH A HITCH IN FRONT!

Apples to apples. Washingtons to Granny Smiths, anyway...   :^)

So... back to the next-to-original question: Anyone ever back a boat
down a ramp with a FWD car, and had the driving wheels slip and lose
traction????

Maybe from this, we can guess whether our favorite VW bus "fronting"
a boat down a ramp, would have the same problem.


How did front-engine, rear-drive cars get into this anyway? No relation!
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