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General Information => User's ride Wall => Topic started by: Renax on September 15, 2014, 01:50:11 am
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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.
I will post photos as fast as i can find out how...
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Picture time...
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/24/bc55a74095ebf5fba9c461dd5cd4fd43.jpg)
How i found it.
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/24/620f87383bfbcac46dd7bf5a5751ff7e.jpg)
Towed it home, with a rope, 30-40miles...
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/24/7504dc7ca849662f9b7dab56a138a7f7.jpg)
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/24/4efd9d36fe1f9b8a0fd59d6b26129b42.jpg)
Soundproofing+insulating with a two layer system. floor, walls an roof.
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/24/b9d5f78dec8ec3b0362ebb1071dfc4aa.jpg)
Putting in my old interior, the seat is Norwegian made and put in most norwegian sold passenger cars because taxes...
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/24/c9ca5e2253f7aba30281e04f014ce6d4.jpg)
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...
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/24/630ee3cac40e54c4e529fb5e574921e9.jpg)
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/24/fbfc7dec2c682ede7a1921b53e170bd4.jpg)
Painted black.
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/24/eb5fb54ff2b11a7174e5da1f044861a2.jpg)
Lowered (yes, this is as low as the goverment allows)
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/24/4ed09c2b77de96e5e4df229be890d932.jpg)
Fixed the rear lights, i don't like orange. These old ones has no reversing light...
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/24/66c7dc0bd35decf4bb8ba5f799ef79ad.jpg)
My old one at its best:-)
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/24/defa20684e5f5fa72e5a9854e4d3a1f6.jpg)
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:-)
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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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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.