blue star

[xriss]

anybody ever come accross a genuine bluestar syncro,was there ever any produced...

[syncropaddy]

anybody ever come accross a genuine bluestar syncro,was there ever any produced...

AFAIK 2WD only, like Redstar and Whitestar

[xriss]

hmmm was thinking much the same andrew...but hey one never knows

[syncropaddy]

hmmm was thinking much the same andrew...but hey one never knows

Well I once heard that the Bluestars and Redstars were offered to VW employees a special prices but I dont know how true that is. Maybe in Germanyland someone did a conversion .....

[..lee..]

didn`t the syncrospares boys build a bluestar syncro.

[xriss]

yeh i guess no wasent an option form vw back in the day eg like the three one off caravelles in electric blue that were put together for franz beckinbuer sepp myier (1974 world cup goal keeper with the large hands) and the head of the shop floor @ hannover cant recall his name,i thnk paul aka sir 2 u has one of the three or did have, there is a pic also in the "schrader typen chronik" vw transporte book of a nice jagdwagen tristar set up...wonder what ever became of it...ahh well moment of nerdness overwith for today

[xriss]

correction not caravelles...three carat's in blue full leather etc etc

[jes*b]

[quote="sepp myier (1974 world cup goal keeper with the large hands) [/quote] Unlike Alan Rough Sepp Maier was one of the true greats and along with German company Reusch developed the first pairs of goalie gloves. I think I read he used to wear oversized gloves and put plastic tips in the ends for extra reachability. Also wore silly long shorts and sometimes mitten style gloves.

[syncro4wd]

Hi,

There is a blues mettalic syncro 14" with an original bluestar interior in the Netherlands. Its also used on broschyres from VW but the name Bluestar was never put on it! It came original with this interior.

Besides the 3 carat syncro 16" you mentioned there are between 20-40 syncro 14" produced with carat interior and a few are delivered with oettinger specs.

Erwin

[hugomonkey]

how hard is the conversion?? if i have a donor syncro??

[KarlT]

Never mind that old chestnut, But can you have 3 one-offs?

[Roving Rich]

AFAIK, VW never built one.
Syncrospares have certainly built one and reinforced it to syncro spec. Jon claimed it was the only Bluestar Syncro in existence.

Cheers
Rich

[syncropaddy]

Jon claimed it was the only Bluestar Syncro in existence.

You can convert a Syncro to Bluestar using Bluestar stuff and you can convert a Bluestar to Syncro but it will never be a Bluestar as VW never made them. By claiming its "the only Bluestar Syncro in existence" simply shows what you are dealing with.