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Just noticed that trip1980's syncro doka in the vehicles for sale section is the following reg number to harryman's syncro doka. Make a good matching pair!

Wonder what the VIN numbers are like, as in are the consecutive as well. Cranken wagen and jebiga41 have consecutive VIN numbers on their vans.

just checked the reg numbers on a system i have access to and the chassis numbers are consecutive also.
just checked g210thv and its a ....................... vauxhall carlton, nice
07 doesnt come up,
06 rover 214

whats the earliest known uk syncro vin number? someone was in here a while back saying his was the earliest,his reg was a few numbers away from one i have here but mine was 40 numbers earlier on the chassis. WV2ZZZ25GG052902 C787RGM twin slider caravelle C. cheers mcgill

Matt Flints I think maybe the earliest in the uk but it's an import

Well...
Somebody walked past me while working on canal bank today and asked if G208 THV parked nearby was my van...

Yup 'tis that

Well, I can tell you for sure it's 'done' the RAC Rally...





... as the BBC outside broadcast van

It also (as I suspected) was used for filming horse racing with camera on roof (hence hole punched through headlining. . ugh!)

What's the chances of that .. a still working BBC OB technician walking past who's actually worked with it 25 years ago.
It was based at Kendal Avenue, Shepherds Bush area.
Possibly was another one in Bristol...

He's going to dig out some BBC history & photos for me. . obviously thought highly of it... also having land rovers.

PS. SIS private company took over BBC OB as recently as 2008 but now gone bust... putting 240 out of work. He was lucky to keep his job! Just back from the Birmingham Symphony Concert Hall ..
More privatisstion bullocks

HarryMann wrote:Well...
Somebody walked past me while working on canal bank today and asked if G208 THV parked nearby was my van...

Yup 'tis that

Well, I can tell you for sure it's 'done' the RAC Rally...





... as the BBC outside broadcast van

It also (as I suspected) was used for filming horse racing with camera on roof (hence hole punched through headlining. . ugh!)

What's the chances of that .. a still working BBC OB technician walking past who's actually worked with it 25 years ago.
It was based at Kendal Avenue, Shepherds Bush area.
Possibly was another one in Bristol...

He's going to dig out some BBC history & photos for me. . obviously thought highly of it... also having land rovers.

i like stories like this, it gives soul to the vehicles we drive.

My blue caravelle was registered as a government vehicle for the first 8 years of its life. On government plates (got the number written down somewhere) but reg changed when sold off.
Never really looked into, or how to, any more history. Why would the government want a syncro?

covert operations to move maggie around,