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New project daily driver to be: 82 TransporterD "Betty" by Renax on 15 Sep, 2014 04:50
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My old Caravelle Coach "Willy" wich had a tuned 1.6 GTD golf engine met an untimely death, against a Passat at around 70km/h
My friend found another VW Transporter for me, and the work began. Only good part of the car is that its more than 30years old, wich in Norway is a huge tax advantage, and it had a AAZ althou poorly mounted, with wrong IP, and leaking waterpump, and it did'nt start.
Theese things made it cheap, and since i got a good parts car (thanks to a Passat owner who couldn't keep right) i got it home and started dismanteling.
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#1 by Renax on 24 Oct, 2014 06:41
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Picture time...
How i found it.
Towed it home, with a rope, 30-40miles...
Soundproofing+insulating with a two layer system. floor, walls an roof.
Putting in my old interior, the seat is Norwegian made and put in most norwegian sold passenger cars because taxes...
Sliding door was rusted too far to fix, and since this is a 82-mod, i had to cut and weld the hinges and locking mechanism to make this 89mod door fit. In the prosess i made extra space for bigger rear wheels...
Painted black.
Lowered (yes, this is as low as the goverment allows)
Fixed the rear lights, i don't like orange. These old ones has no reversing light...
My old one at its best:-)
After the crash, doesn't look that bad, but trust me, its worse than it looks...
Good thing is, that after a head on collision going 45mph, no one got injured. Considering i had my two kids (1˝ and 3˝years old) i call that a success:-) -
#2 by FrizzleFry on 28 Oct, 2014 09:34
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Oh my gosh! Its good to bear everyone is okay. Ive watched a few of the factory crash test vids with vanagons and they're pretty impressive!
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#3 by libbydiesel on 28 Oct, 2014 11:26
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Oh my gosh! Its good to bear everyone is okay. Ive watched a few of the factory crash test vids with vanagons and they're pretty impressive!
Actually, the vanagon has been rated one of the safest non-airbag vehicles. Probably the 'factory crash test' video you are referring to is the one where someone piled several tons of bricks in the back of a Doka and then drove it at highway speeds into a block wall... Give me a break...
Look for the ones where the vanagon goes up against a Volvo at highway speeds. Anyone in the vanagon would have been uninjured and anyone in the Volvo would have been dead.