** At 07:44 AM 4/13/2004, Andrew Grebneff
<andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> **

>Actually these vans are not unique in styling... the first-generation
>Mitsubishi Delica/L300 (RWD & 4WD), released in the same year as the
>T3, was quite similar from the front and sides. Pure coincidence, but
>there it is.

really liked these vans on a trip to NZ in 1995  running all about
4wd and all, and us in our crammed mistu hatchback :-(
http://timschneider.org/NZ/index.html

obj: disclaimer.. (first few photos are *not* NZ.. oops.. !
      actually Zion NP and a bike race in downtown Florence IT)

A bit smallish compared to the vanagon though?

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/docs6/history/html/delica.htm
http://www.delicaclub.com/index.php

  -t