Re: [QUAD-L] van

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I'm just over 55 inches high and I have to duck getting in and out of my 250 Econoline with a lowered floor and raised roof.  After in I have loads of room but I'm still too high to drive from my chair.  I have an xfr seat but the xfr is pretty difficult - and I have fair arm strength and plenty of leg and back spasms that I can trigger to push me around.  I'm thinking I'll get a mini bus like the airport Super Shuttle and drive from my rocket.  They have big windows and lots of room - and they are relatively (compared with a van)  cheap. Dave     In a message dated 1/15/2005 11:39:57 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Billy,   I'm approximately your height also may be a little taller in my wheelchair.  I was told by my driving instructor and by the company that did my adaptions that I should get a full-size van for my size and height.  I drive a 2001 Ford 150 with 8" dropped floor and a 3" body lift. While I was getting fitted at the van adaption place, I was talking to a man that was 6'-5" and in a wheelchair identical to mind that just purchased a minivan.  He told me he sold his full-size van and purchased a minivan that fit him perfectly. He liked the maneuverability of the minivan and the fuel economy compared to the full-size.    Jim   The moral flabbiness born of the bitch goddess Success. That- with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success- is our national disease.  -William James  1906