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Plastic ones make your van go 150 mph faster

hmmmmm....if you have metal grills the van is truly early, and is a good indication it was originally air cooled.

Em
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150mph faster.....hmmm...sommar wrong with mine then....

this is early= metal

mm so what you got

Oh I see!!! Finally I get with the programme

150mph huh? Wow...I wonder how many panels would be left after 110mph?

if metal then 100% air cooled originally by the time the diesel engines were offered they'd gone to plastic as they had to modify the air intakes I guess for the diesel or the use of the metal panel was causing distortion to the shell or the pressing of them had too high a remake rate

could be right there Aiden, funny panal to press, anyhaow mine is derv, ok its been converted but youd not tell from the externals nor the engine bay,
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Bit of blacking out needed in them arches me thinks Mike.

Nooooooooooooooooooo.
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change over was late Jan 81 build after that they had the plastic trim the very first diesels ran off the line at the very end of Jan 81 according to the engine dates

metalmick8y wrote:Nooooooooooooooooooo.
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Yup, you know it as well.