Shite Vans.

[Junkman]

The Mercedes T2 Dusseldorfer set the benchmark in terms of unkillability, eventually becoming the darling of stoned old Hippies at Glastonbury.

 

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As an aside, how come there was never a van version of the Austin Allegro estate?  It'd make a lot of sense.

[Ghosty]

Probably because the Hydragas would shit itself if you overloaded it.

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VW Gol.  Brazilian market with a VW Beetle engine in the front.

 

 

 

 

Quite difficult to get pictures of the van, or even the Gol, because of the existence of the Golf and the rarity of the van.

[Ghosty]

Didn't know Gols were aircooled!

[Ghosty]

When they were making the Brazilian VWs did they send the names and designs over on a dodgy fax machine? It seems that way.

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Which came first - the Gol, or the mk2 Scirocco...? 

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[Vin]

A previous Autoshite favourite, the Spanish coachbuilder 'Emelba' deserve a mention again for producing amongst other things a Horizon and Ritmo/Ronda van that are just AWESOME.

 

For Example,

 

 

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[Cleon-Fonte]

My mate has one, which has been in the family since new. Hugely slow, with only 60 bhp but feels incredibly well built. Don't know if they're standard, but it even has grease nipples on the door hinges!

 

Camping in France a few years ago:

 

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Lack of performance was definitely a feature. As we didn't have a car for a long time when I was a kid T2s were our primary means of transport (unless we took a taxi), and my abiding memory of them is being ragged everywhere flat out but barely actually moving.

 

Still, the earlier round-nosed van conversions managed 12 years of receiving such abuse 10 hours a day, seven days a week (despite living their entire lives in salty sea air), some of them doing a few more years in the driving school after that. The later square-nosed ones with proper bus bodies did even longer service and worked up moonship mileages.

 

I will own one eventually, even if they do begin to attract some kind of scene tax, as they're probably the vehicles that kicked off my automotive interests in the first place. And, let's face it, the round-nosed ones look fucking mega.

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