Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:41:01 -0700
Reply-To: il cikaspers <cikasper@MAIL.CRUZIO.COM>
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From: il cikaspers <cikasper@MAIL.CRUZIO.COM>
Subject: Re: wierd interior in '87 ebay syncro.......
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stven, even weirder yet, he owns the first six...
bill
>OH MY GAWD!!!
>
>Can you believe what's near to BenT?! I can't even bring myself to clip the
>below list... let alone fathom seeing such a menagerie in just a few blocks!
>It would take me three years and a gazillion miles of driving here in oHIo
>to accumulate the list of vans he posted as having seen nearby and I'm
>talking just about the NORMAL vans... not the wierd (sic) ones.
>Oh My Gawd!
>Normalcy can sometimes be sooo boring!
>My $.02
>
>--
>Stephen
>Chillicothe OH
>
>
>> Now with that aside, I can tell you that this particular van with the
>> diagonal brown interior had Federal and California tags. By that I mean
>>there
>> were VOA stickers in the appropriate places. I did not check the VIN as
>>I did
>> not assume it was a "one-off" as you refer to it.
>>
>> As for where I find them? There is a 1989 16" Syncro Double Cab with a
>> factory turbodiesel and gray all vinyl upholstery and two person front
>> passenger bench. There is also a 1990 non-GL with all rubber mats over head
>> AC and gray tweed upholstery with black and red flecks. No side table
>>and has
>> black metal bumpers. Uncovered metal dash. No Tach. Tomorrow, a 1982 right
>> hand drive single cab with a 1.6 liter Weber carburated engine will be
>> joining this happy little group. This is in addition to the 14" Syncro, 1982
>> Gl w/I4, and 87 GL. ALL OF THEM PARKED IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE. If you
>>drive ten
>> blocks from my house, you can go to my buddy's shop today, you will find an
>> 1985 Escatorial Green 14" Syncro Double Cab with a 2.1 WBX in process of
>> replacing a factory carburated 1.9 WBX. That one has all brown vinyl
>> walkthrough interior. Just aft of it is a baby blue 1985 2wd Double Cab with
>> a 1.9td in place of the old 1.6na. Interior in that guy is a walkthrough
>> brown cloth and vinyl. There are also four carats on the lot. Blue,
>>Maroon, &
>> two Whites. Two different types of velour. Oh yeah, there's another 1990
>> non-GL with the tweed interior. There were also half dozen other Vanagon
>> Westies littering the lot.
>>
>> Hotbed of weird Vanagon one-offs? No, it's just a normal day. I didn't see
>> more than 30 Vanagons while driving yesterday. Maybe 25-27. One-offs? Maybe.
>> But if they're one-offs, there wouldn't be anything like it in the world,
>> right? But these are not unique in the VW world. I believe that was the
>> direction of the discussion. We were talking about weird interiors. Not
>>weird
>> interiors that you see only in US Spec Vanagons for sale on ebay. Right?
>>
>> BenT
>
>> I just bought a RHD Single Cab yesterday in case you missed that. Very weird
>> to drive when you're used to driving US spec LHD cars.
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