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Subject:Re: [Re: What is the biggest & heaviest thing you've carriedINSIDE yourvan?]
From:John Rodgers
Date:Mon, 7 May 2001 20:41:48 -0500

I've hauled 15 one hundred pound bags of plaster on the floor in my 85
GL with the 1.9 L engine from Anchorage, Alaska  through the Chugach
Mountains down to Kenai, AK. A good solid 150 miles or so.

Never had such an occasion with my 88 GL. But the 85GL did well, and did
it more than once.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Joe Fortino wrote:
>
> I find out what my van will hold this month when I use it
> to move, but i need to be able to see out the windows,, haha
>
> wait.. I've had 6 cyclists 6 bikes in the van, and my wife
> fully loaded tring to make it up route 160 in las vegas.. 40mph limpin
>
> Joe
>
> phil stanhope <napszeerf@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Right before moving from California back to Florida, I
> emtied out a 5'X10' storage room (everthing i owned)
> and managed to fit ALL of it in my Westy and I still
> could crawl back to the rear bed to rest at rest
> stops.
> The rear suspension was all the way bottomed out and
> I even fit 5 short surfboards+2 long surfboards on the
> roof!
>
> It handled like a Peterbuilt all the way to Florida!
>
> Phil 84'
> white Westfalia
> "Millenium Falcon" (For sale)
> 84' all brown Rustfalia/Wolfy GL
> "Sh*thawk" (Tiico on order)
> B+W G3 450 MHz 256mg ram
>
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