Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:00:16 EDT
Reply-To:     Blbachman@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Blaine Bachman <Blbachman@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Very cool trailer
Comments: To: JordanVw@aol.com
Comments: cc: vanagon@vanagon.com
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I built one of these to pull behind my '71 - I did it in Alaska in 1982.  The
donor car was a '69 camper that had extensive front end damage.  I removed the
camping stuff and installed some of it and the pop top in my kombi.

I cut the body at the rear of the sliding door, but left the frame rails about
2 feet longer.  Welded a steel tube to the cross member just ahead of the
transmission mount and notched, bent, and welded the frame rails to the tube.
Welded on a hitch.

I never finished the opening the way I would have liked.  Filled it with 3/4"
plywood and sealed it so's I could get some stuff down from AK.

Eventually sold it in San Diego for a few hundred bucks.

Keep thinking about making a Vanagon-based one.

-Blaine