Date:         Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:59:17 -0800
Reply-To:     David Raistrick <keen@TIORA.NET>
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From:         David Raistrick <keen@TIORA.NET>
Subject:      Re: One-Ton vans
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On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, David Marshall wrote:

> I have loaded 26 computer systems into my Double Cab.  It would have
> carried more but my tie-down straps wern't long enough and if they did fall
> my boss would have been really pissed!  The truck drove great albeit a
> little slower than it's usuall slow self!
>

More testimonials...:)

13 people, traveling down a mountain, ina 69 westy....We ran out of
people. not room.  Plus camping equipment for 1 weekend for 3 people, in
the wayback..It felt more like before i ha the Load D yoko's on it...And
the sidewalls were bulging a bit..(47 front, 53 rear, at the time..)
Didnt go fast...:)

3 people, plus living gear, GA to WA, and back.  2 of those people weigh
in around 300 lbs..the other is a measly 150..:)

75 westy, no top, no interior, wooden panels up top removed, too.  Loaded
to the gills, and past.  I had furniture piled over 5 feet out the HUGE
holes in the roof....made one trip, bald eagle tires, JB welded holes in
pistons and heads, but it made it. ~ 35 miles...:)  (a desperate attempt
to move my stuff out of the house we were being evicted from...)


Hmm...I'm sure there is more i cannot think of...In fact, i know it, but
cannot remember..:)
....david (who CAN haul 4x8 sheets of plywood in a 69 westy...:)
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David Raistrick  '69 Westy-Itchigo                      keen@tiora.net
                 '66 Hardtop Westy                      in Augusta Ga
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