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Roving Rich wrote: Most owners on this forum seem to have mint Syncros with many additional toys.

After reading Rich's post on Slobbos thread I think its time to introduce the unmint unshiney vans.

Roving Rich wrote: But it is a very long way from being mint and is unlikely to ever be so. I bought it to have adventures in that I can share with my family.

For me this is the spirit of the Syncro I don't want a van that I'm worried abut scratching its paint thats not to say I don't appreciate mint or shiney vans they are just not for me.
So this is for the the unwashed, the underdogs, the unsung heroes, the tatty ones, the "rolling restorations" that we love. No Chelsea Tractors allowed !!!!

Feel free to introduce yours
I'll start
Tinkerbelle aka "The Horse" The Pikey Queen that we all know and love






Dala my baby she's dirty, dented, scratched, has been through the wars, has a different coloured back door, has rust showing in places, been smoked in, had beer spilled over her, but I love her and will never sell her

Oops, I got a big carried away with pics!!

how about one that started mint and now works hard for a living

wicked. i can play this game....







had been worked hard by vattenfall with 250000km on the clock when i brought it back from sweden 8 years ago.
the gearbox has only just given up ( well i had kept it in 4th gear with a bungee for a couple of years so i knew it was on the cards ) and i have just rebuilt the trailing arms as they had started to collapse, but theres nothing to beat it when logging in the woods,getting to tricky surf spots or just pissing about in the snow.
and so far (fingers firmly crossed), nothing i cant fix.

And introducing Edna for those who don't know her



note the special breather below the indicator lens and the scratches and the rust and compare to the shiney customer 2wd van


and can you identify the two things in this picture that are relatively new and shiney (ps one of them isn't )

new exhaust and new rear syncro springs, no sorry, couldnt be them as they are in the post to me, how about the new rattle can silver paint job?

The Blue Moose, blistered and beaten and now engine-less once again for a bit... I'll sort that soon enough but not in time for SP Definitely one of the "almost-rolling" restorations and most certainly a "thinking man's Land Rover" (tm)

Even I can do this ......



Totally tatty, doesn't even go but it has a spotless unused service record book!

syncropaddy wrote:Even I can do this ......



Totally tatty, doesn't even go but it has a spotless unused service record book!

And windows

jes*b wrote: And windows

Yeah .... we have butchers over here too !! New van rear side panels and centre panel top of the list. This one will be a van again!







No ... not a Vanagon .....

jes*b wrote:

syncropaddy wrote:Even I can do this ......



Totally tatty, doesn't even go but it has a spotless unused service record book!

And windows

Isn't that the last RHD PANEL Van

Belle before her resurrection

With Tinker

jebiga41 wrote:

jes*b wrote:

syncropaddy wrote:Even I can do this ......



Totally tatty, doesn't even go but it has a spotless unused service record book!

And windows

Isn't that the last RHD PANEL Van

Yup indeed .....

Is there a butcher out there that wants a set of silly windows that are used to destroy perfectly good PANEL VANS ..... ?

jebiga41 wrote:

........ but I love her and will never sell her

There wouldn't be any point, no one would want it

well at least it is a panel van Andrew you should try some of these Andrew

As we are on the appropriate thread where's your multivan I seem to recall it having a healthy dose of seam rash