Drove a Syncro Vanagon over the weekend..

[matthew.kogan at sbcglobal.net (Matthew Kogan)]

The only other syncro was the Quantums, which were basically Audi 4000's
with a little different body.  But one was the Wagon, which was kinda cool.

Matthew
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lars Bruchmann" <pilotlars@yahoo.com>
To: "Antaki" <wrack@comcast.net>; <fahrvegnugen@cox.net>;
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 10:35 PM
Subject: RE: Drove a Syncro Vanagon over the weekend..


> were buses the only sycros sold in the US??  were no
> passat or golf syncros brought over?
> --- Antaki <wrack@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > My personal VWs in our family's VW farm are: 1 ea.
> > '88 Scirocco 16V 2.0l and
> > 1 ea. '86 Syncro Westfalia.
> >
> > They are both fun, on opposite ends of the spectrum.
> > Guess which one is the
> > money hog? Clue: only 8 valves...
> >
> > On the other hand, I doubt any Scirocco could
> > survive, much less succeed,
> > climbing the Stairsteps in the Hollister, CA
> > off-road park!
> > http://ohv.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=1179
> > Every year in early May,
> > we have the Syncro de Mayo there. Oh, what fun it is
> > putting to shame many
> > other Manly 4WD machines, with our quaint little
> > boxes, some of which have
> > stoves and upper deck sleeping!
> >
> > My daily commute is made a lot more enjoyable behind
> > the wheel of Buzzbomb,
> > the one with lotsa valves. Sigh...
> >
> > Roccin' Ron
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> > [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf
> > Of David Utley
> > Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 8:56 AM
> > To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > Subject: OT: Drove a Syncro Vanagon over the
> > weekend..
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
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