Drove a Syncro Vanagon over the weekend..

[pilotlars at yahoo.com (Lars Bruchmann)]

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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