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joetiger 
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 Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:26 am Post subject: Backyard Syncro Sighting |
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Right where I catch the train into downtown Denver, I happened to actually look around for once yesterday and spotted a gunmetal grey 7-passenger Syncro in somebody's backyard. I drove down the alley to investigate further and saw that it appears to be in great shape, bodywise, but looks to have been sitting awhile.
I immediately daydreamed about a Zetec in the back and an Adventurewagen top, then snapped back to the reality that I need to do at least $2k worth of work to my own Vanagon before next summer.
Samba member? I feel nosy asking, but they're getting rarer by the moment!
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Joe T.
'86 NAHT Vanagon GL Syncro/ supercharged ABA 2.0 "Pigpen"
'04 GTI 1.8T
'04 Golf R32
"get metaphysical with it. if it's simply a means to get to and from places, it will let you down. if it becomes your zen, it can't fail you." -dabaron
"Still, it's good to be afield."--VWagabond
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campism
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Location: Richmond VA
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| Feels like striking gold, doesn't it? I found a backyard Syncro that had been parked for a couple of years but I had just bought a Westy and could not convince my bride that the Syncro was essential. |
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blueridgedog
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| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Feels like striking gold, doesn't it? I found a backyard Syncro that had been parked for a couple of years but I had just bought a Westy and could not convince my bride that the Syncro was essential. |
So, has she remarried? |
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campism
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| Actually, she has gotten into Westy ownership and has been instrumental in many of the upgrades and improvement projects and she digs camping. If I had REALLY made a case for getting that other one (and believe me, it was cheap for a syncro) she most likely would have let me get it. But I do not need a syncro, no matter how much I might think I want one, and a marriage doesn't make it to 24 years without a little work. Not buying a cheap syncro is a lot of hard work. |
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madspaniard
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| campism wrote: |
| Actually, she has gotten into Westy ownership and has been instrumental in many of the upgrades and improvement projects and she digs camping. If I had REALLY made a case for getting that other one (and believe me, it was cheap for a syncro) she most likely would have let me get it. But I do not need a syncro, no matter how much I might think I want one, and a marriage doesn't make it to 24 years without a little work. Not buying a cheap syncro is a lot of hard work. |
LOL
those are wise words that I also share with you.
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joetiger
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It's gone! I have no idea how they even got it out of that yard, it had appeared to have been basically fenced-in.
Hopefully it went to a Sambanista!
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Joe T.
'86 NAHT Vanagon GL Syncro/ supercharged ABA 2.0 "Pigpen"
'04 GTI 1.8T
'04 Golf R32
"get metaphysical with it. if it's simply a means to get to and from places, it will let you down. if it becomes your zen, it can't fail you." -dabaron
"Still, it's good to be afield."--VWagabond
Available Now! Vanagon to Louisiana--A Two-Lane Reckoning Through Past and Present
www.josephtrussell.com |
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campism
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| Yeah, I've been keeping my eye on a tree-damaged aircooled Westy in the 'hood and it suddenly disappeared after a couple of years. Poof! There went my wheel trim rings and single headlight grille. |
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hiram6
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| Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| joetiger wrote: |
| It's gone! I have no idea how they even got it out of that yard, it had appeared to have been basically fenced-in! |
It's a syncro!! No fence could stop it!
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