OT: Drove a Syncro Vanagon over the weekend..

[fahrvegnugen at cox.net (David Utley)]

And I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Don (the fella I work for on the weekends) had an 86 (IIRC) Vanagon Syncro, 180K on the clock, some rust, it was evidentally from up north...  There is an intermittent hic-up with it.  It will cut-out occassionally for no reason we could find...  Shook the wiring, relay, brain, grounds, on and on, we could not get it to duplicate it while idling.  However, it would occassionally pop-up while driving...  SO, Don wanted me to drive the thing hard up and down his gravel road...  So, I ran it through it's paces.  That is a lot of fun!  Ice would be more so.  The neat thing is when doing a turn around, it almost feels like it has 4-wheel steering.  Fish tails are difficult to produce, but fun when doing so...

Not that anyone here would be interested, but the reason why the owner was searching for the problem is because he is going to sell it...  I think he is asking 2.5K, which may be a bit high with its present problems...  Couple of small wrinkles, brown in color, very clean interior.  A nice van, and a bodyman's dream (rust again)...

I thought I would share some VW joy, I am not feeling it here on our local club website...

Cheers, 
  David

PS--  Do 'good' and 'Monday' really go together?