Show us your Van

Well if you havnt seen it already, this is my NEW Van / Bus.

70s-groover wrote:So is this the other toy you were telling me about Ben, these are alot of fun.

Its one of a few toys I have, and yeh, its awesum to drive, great for scaring passengers

If this is your new van, whats happening to the old one?

Handing the rego in on the HG, no more play time, goes up on stands soon , will become a dust collector till a later date in time.

New van has power, uses less than 1 tank to 2 tanks of HG and Calais, this thing is cheap, fast with tones of space and is to date the best van i have ever owned ( yes thats right, all my mates are very confused too of my transfer from GMH since 16 yrs old to VW ) ( yes im a closet VW lover and have been for yrs ), even the VT Calais sits out the front most days now.

Will i do it up, Yes, the wife has given me the good nod to go ahead but slowly over time.

How many toys do you have Ben ?????

At least stick a holden badge on it

If you want some interesting idea's for the VW go to youtube and type in VW bus/kombi and scroll through the video's some very innovative engineering in the kombi's

Yeh, ive also seen some wild stuff from Japan with VW's as some of there custom work is of the planet.

rambletamble wrote:At least stick a holden badge on it

Hahaha funny you said that, have thought of it, will get 1 on there somewhere

70s-groover wrote:Handing the rego in on the HG, no more play time, goes up on stands soon , will become a dust collector till a later date in time.

New van has power, uses less than 1 tank to 2 tanks of HG and Calais, this thing is cheap, fast with tones of space and is to date the best van i have ever owned ( yes thats right, all my mates are very confused too of my transfer from GMH since 16 yrs old to VW ) ( yes im a closet VW lover and have been for yrs ), even the VT Calais sits out the front most days now.

Will i do it up, Yes, the wife has given me the good nod to go ahead but slowly over time.

How many toys do you have Ben ?????

Some would say too many
the buggy

The ute, can't bring myself to admit I own a FFFFF, nah can't do it
My niece decieded to make the front more aero dynamic,
Plus a 1980's Pajero,honda XR250, a gocart, a few rc cars, the van.A Vr ute, missus's subaru forester,plus both our work cars, parking is sometimes a problem round my place

Bought my van in 96 off original owner with 100k km on the clock with factory Caprice front and ugly 2-tone paint!

And i see you took the windows out as well.

yeah not the best job either, but looks fine in the pics!

You'll have to come on one of our cruises on day.

It looks very good to me, Better than mine at the moment, currently being stripped down for a do over

yeah maybe, only been out twice this year *shame*

It's on in the middle of october and it's only half an our or so away from you.

Cool, also will have the van at Del Rio on Oct long weekend

I'm trying to get there on the Sunday as the saturday is my eldest daughter's birthday.

no worries! I will be there the whole weekend from fri-mon. hope you make it!

Hey Scoot,

The van looks great in some of the photos I took last weekend too.
I'm get 'em on the puter and send them across for you.

Gday again, i have been abit slack, finally got the van finished almost a year ago now but didnt get around to posting pics so here ya go.









Looking forward to summer again so i can get out on some cruises, anybody from wa knowing of cruises let me know please

Mate, this van is a credit to you, absolutely fabyaloose job you've done. my only complaint is you own it and not me.
ENJOY..

DRKNSTRMY: a great looking van!

Ive neglecting this forum of late, but I have been really busy... Ive just spent a few hours looking through the threads, I just wish vanning was like it used to be here.
Anyway, thought Id keep you up to date. I did a partial rebuild of a V6 cologne engine last winter and it was finally fitted a few weeks back and boy did it sound good Sadly, it has all gone down hill since. Had a lot of trouble with the MFI injection system and after it was running it promptly blew a head gasket, 10 minutes after driving
So the heads off again, lap in valves and new seals and I'm half way through fitting it out again...



Hopefully it will be running this weekend, Oh by the way, ignore the green hose, just filling up the gearbox

bugger bout the mishap but hope all goes great from here on Alan.. the motor looks a treat