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Subject:Re: Vanagon on Steroids
From:David Marshall
Date:Fri, 7 Dec 2007 21:12:19 -0800

The engine (2.4L straight six turbo Diesel, stock is 90hp, 155ft.lbs) sits
between the front seats.

That's *my* LT, so I guess I
could be the guy on the list who has one!   :-)
David
Marshall

http://www.hasenwerk.ca
http://www.fastforward.ca

Box 4153, Quesnel BC, Canada V2J
3J2

On Fri, December 7, 2007 20:54, craig cowan wrote:
> Where'd they put the engines in these bad boys? And.....what kind
of
> engines? This vehicle is far to big for a little 86hp 1.9L or
worse,
> aircooled. But then again, a 1980 vanagon seems WAY to
big and heavy for a
> 68(?)hp aircooled engine......so its all
relative. It is a VW, so they may
> have used something COMPLETELY
rediculous (i know of Craftsman engines
> that
> put out a
heck of a bit more pony-power than the earliest
>
beetles/busses!).
>
> Just curious. Doesnt someone on the
list have one of these too?
>
> -Craig
> '85gl
barefoot
>
> On Dec 7, 2007 10:46 PM, David Marshall
<mailinglist@fastforward.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> Only an LT 2 ? only 2WD? - 'tis yet but tiny!
>>
>> What you need is
>> the 4x4 version of that with a
5500kg GVW!
>>
>>
http://hasenwerk.ca/lt45doka/volkswagenlt4x4.jpg
>>
>> Now that's a Vanagon on Steroids... no wait, I take that
>> back.  A Vanagon is a mini-Van really - just a glorified car
that's
>> been beefed up... the LT... that's a truck!
>>
>> David
>> Marshall
>>
>> http://www.hasenwerk.ca
>>
http://www.fastforward.ca
>>
>> Box 4153, Quesnel
BC, Canada V2J
>> 3J2
>>
>> On Fri,
December 7, 2007 17:01, Loren Busch wrote:
>> > For those of
you that have never seen one, here is a Westfalia made
>>
camper
>> > on a VW LT 29 body, the 'Florida" model.
As seen in
>> Oregon last week:
>> >
>> >
>>
http://picasaweb.google.com/starwagen/LT28Florida
>> >
>>
>

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