Date:         Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:33:59 -0800
Reply-To:     bpchristensen1@HOME.COM
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From:         Brent Christensen <bpchristensen1@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Re: Plastic Vanagon Models
Comments: To: Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
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That is my intention. I have several challenges:
1. The headlights.  Is there any other production car that shares the same
grill and headlights?
2. Wood grain interior - I have already started sanding it smooth
3. Air-cooled motor - the exhaust system looks wrong
4. The gas cap is in the wrong spot!  :-)
5. The wheels are something off a Connestoga wagon, not a VW that I have
ever seen...

Brent Christensen
'89 GL Syncro Westy
Santa Barbara, CA

----- Original Message -----
From: Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Plastic Vanagon Models


> Brent, you are making it a true replica of your own Syncro, aren't you?
The same
> color inside and out, I mean. It would look great if you take the Syncro
to a
> show!
>
> John wrote:
>
> > I want to put
> > square '86-> headlights in the grill. Any model builders on the list
> > know how ? I'll even buy another model vehicle, take the lights and
> > throw the rest away, just tell me how.
>
> Good idea! Then you can get some nice wheels too :-) Maybe some sport
seats, a
> Golf engine??? The list is long, and parts are cheap (LOL)
>
> My favorite model-kit store still has a kit of the UN 7-pax bus. I have
this kit
> too, still unassembled. I will paint it to match my Syncro.
>
>
>
> PerL
> 87 Syncro 112i
>
> Brent Christensen wrote:
>
> > I just started building a model of an 80-83.5 Westy from Revell. Bought
it
> > on eBay for $15.  I assumed when I saw it on eBay, that it was pretty
old,
> > but when I looked at the instructions, I found they are copyrighted
1997!
> >
> > Are these things still sold new?  Anyone ever seen a model of a
late-model
> > Westy?
> >
> > I am also planning to try to modify the suspension to make it look like
a
> > Syncro.. Amazing what we'll do when it is too rainy to work on our
Vanagons,
> > eh?  :-)   Maybe I'll use Euro-spec clear turn signals...
> >
> > Brent Christensen
> > '89 GL Syncro Westy
> > Santa Barbara, CA