The Steyr-Puch Noriker is certainly a cool rig.  There was one for
sale in Germany last year that went for about 15.000 EUR.  Not bad
for one of 13 or 15 prototype vehicles ever built.  I'd hate to see
what it would take to fix some of those drivetrain parts.  At least
with the LT 4x4 you can get a lot of the stuff in North America as the
transfer case is a New Process 208 (Jeep Cherokee has these) and the other
parts were all designed with the help of Dana.

As
you may know, I just bought a 1992 LT45 DoKa 4x4 and it will be a nice
truck for several reasons - the biggest issue that I have is the fact that
it has solid axles, stock with the 7.50R16 tires there is 21cm of ground
clearance as there is a pair of differentails in the way.  I will be
installing some 9.00R16 tires on it, but that will still give me less than
30cm of ground clearance.  My camper has almost 40cm... I guess
that's the trade off in having a truck that could legally carry the
weight of my camper in the back of it and seven people in side of
it.  :-)    Yup, a Noriker would be nice.  Then
again, I am willing to bet that the Noriker is simply an LT with a Turbo
Diesel Pinzgauer drive train installed on it - I'd rather a water-cooled
Pinz 6x6 than a Noriker!   At least that way I wouldn't
feel as bad customizing it - the Noriker is so rare that I am sure some
purist out there would have an issue or two taking a sawz-all to
a vehicle like that.

David Marshall

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On Mon, February 26, 2007
07:19, Karl Mullendore wrote:
> Yes, as mentioned before, that is
the plan. I've had the 2.5 AEL TDI
> sitting here, waiting for me
to find time. But I would love to find an
> LT Noriker. :-)
>
> David Marshall wrote:
>> Not so good at all
Karl,
>> It looks like you do already own a good van
>> to turn into the perfect van. I absolutely love my high top
camper -
>> why not turn your Syncro 16 into a nice clean TDI?
I think the only
>> thing better than my Westfalia hightop
would be to move up to a
>> Westfalia
>> Atlantic
in the LT range so I can get a toilet and shower in there.
>>
They never made these in a 4x4 variant, but that doesn't stop the
>> determined,
>>
>>
>