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