Couldn't resist, While driving From Washington state to Boston with all of our worldy possessions("If it doesn't fit in the van, we don't need it") I weighed the rig at a truck stop. The Cat Truck Scale guy in South Dakota informed me that we tipped the scales at 6,740lbs!(500 of it on the roof racks) The vanagon still had a couple of inches of suspension travel, which made for a comfy ride when the road wasn't bad. This baby rode cadillac smoooooooooth with all that weight! I drove pretty hard, after the first thousand miles I figured "what the hell", and ran at about 4,000 rpm's for hours on end while crossing our lovely country. Still running strong. Peter Newberry 84 vanagon-wolfsburg |
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