White syncro in crookes sheffield

Post by **T'Onion** » 21 Nov 2007, 17:03

Anyone ?
looks like a panel van with a window in the panel opp. the slider

Post by **KevH** » 21 Nov 2007, 17:04

Could be SyncroG otherwise known as Glen

Post by **Syncro G** » 21 Nov 2007, 18:13

Yep, thats mine.

Post by **busvanman** » 22 Nov 2007, 13:19

do you also have a black syncro camper on the drive or is that some one else?? saw the pair there a couple of months back in hillsborough direction???

Post by **Syncro G** » 22 Nov 2007, 16:32

No, only got the 1 syncro (not that greedy [yet]), Distinctive feature seems to be the green syncro/4WD stickers. I don't have a drive at all, just a large oil stained area of street nearish my house (where ever there is space that perticular time I parked). The oil stains are mainly my fault as my old landy leaves them, though no one seems to have noticed yet, probubly a good thing really. In the past I managed to get it so muddy that when the mud eventully fell off onto the road I got my very own reserved space that no one wanted to park in!

Don't know of any other Syncro's in the area at the moment though there are afew other T3's. There was a pannel van (G## OAG) and a brown poptop camper (G620 LET) (met the owner once, he also had a Pinsgauer aparently) around afew years ago but both have since changed hands. Ocasionly I've seen a yellow syncro camper(?) which I think must be from sheffield somewhere though I don't see it very often. I don't drive around town very often so I'd be on a proper jeurney if I was spotted, I usally walk locally.

Post by **Mick** » 22 Nov 2007, 17:55

Syncro G wrote:Don't know of any other Syncro's in the area at the moment though there are afew other T3's.

I'm only in Brinsworth/Rotherham. I've seen Onion in GSF's a couple of times.

Post by **busvanman** » 24 Nov 2007, 16:48

Definately seen a house with a pair of syncros on the drive around hillsborough way........as for the yellow one there is a d plate yellow minibus in that area, I tried to find out more about it a few years back though i got nowere........last time i saw it the engine was out, it was still there in the summer............no doubt its on someones project list?????

Kind of fancied it myself as a project bus...........

Post by **Syncro G** » 26 Nov 2007, 16:45

busvanman wrote:Definately seen a house with a pair of syncros on the drive around hillsborough way........as for the yellow one there is a d plate yellow minibus in that area, I tried to find out more about it a few years back though i got nowere........last time i saw it the engine was out, it was still there in the summer............no doubt its on someones project list?????
Kind of fancied it myself as a project bus...........

Would the yellow one be outside a village garage by any chance? It's moved again so is harder to spot from the road but its still there. I spoke to the owner the other month to see what was happening with it, aparently its being done up and is definately not for sale. Don't know when it'll be done up though as there doesn't seem to have been much done to it in the last 5 years since I first spotted it.

Post by **busvanman** » 27 Nov 2007, 20:36

yeah sounds like the same van to me been knocking around the village for around 5 years like you say, same guy has a turqouise camper???
won't give out the exact location but it was used by a local outdoor pusuits company?????though i never found the owner!!!!!!!!

Often check to see if its still there when i head over that way............syncro dreamin

Post by **Syncro G** » 27 Nov 2007, 22:03

busvanman wrote:yeah sounds like the same van to me been knocking around the village for around 5 years like you say, same guy has a turqouise camper???
won't give out the exact location but it was used by a local outdoor pusuits company?????though i never found the owner!!!!!!!!

Often check to see if its still there when i head over that way............syncro dreamin

We are definately talking about the same van there! There are syncro owners who have stopped and asked about it before, some are probubly reading this now. I had already been told he won't sell it before I asked but I thought I'd be cheeky and ask just so I'd know what its future might be. I bet it anoyed him a bit that someone stopped and asked about it again even after he went to the effort of shifting it almost out of view. Whilst its not been having a dose of roadsalt over the last vew years, I can't help but think as the years pass it'll become a right effort to get it going properly again, if it ever will. I'd recognise the number if I saw it on the road though!

Post by **Simon Baxter** » 27 Nov 2007, 22:41

It looks f**ked.
Someones gunna have a big bill.

Post by **busvanman** » 28 Nov 2007, 19:01

i reckon Mr Baxters going too be right on that one after at least 5 years like that its gonna be proper f~~~ed i'd guess especially as its been left outside rotting...........

Post by **autohausdolby** » 23 Dec 2007, 11:47

Everyone and their dog has asked in the garage about the Yellow Syncro - it's a bit on the sheddy side and is a converted panel rather than a "proper" minibus.

It's owned by the guy who runs the garage, and he (IIRC) had a bad bike accident a few years back that makes him less than approachable. I'll be extremely surprised if he ever does anything with it - but then again it belongs to him so I suppose he can do what he wants

Post by **KarlT** » 23 Dec 2007, 13:31

Strange, because there is the same sort of situation in North Cornwall.

A RHD syncro panel half full with of old engines, exhausts & bumpers.

But guy is not interested in selling. I know of it being there for the past 18 mths & looked like it had been there awhile when first spotted!