What part doesn't make sense? It had been previously imported to Canada so no new duties if it came back. He brought the camper to Europe to travel. Tricky to bring in to the US because of the engine swap.

It would help if you are familiar with Malcolm's recent travels -- which has been posted in this space recently.

Cheers,

BenT

On Oct 3, 2010, at 8:39 PM, Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> this makes almost no sense
> On 3-Oct-10, at 8:04 PM, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:
> 
>> Folks for purely logistical reasons, I'm selling this great van.
>> This Syncro 16
>> van is legal in Canada (no import duties when bring the van to
>> Canada) and
>> Germany (Europe) and is presently in Belgium with Mike Plompen who
>> will make all
>> of the necessary arrangements to ship it to N. America.  Ther may be
>> ways to
>> import the van into the USA, check the vanagon archives.
>> 
>> The van is a REAL Syncro 16" outfitted by  Dehler.  The Dehler
>> interior was not
>> to my liking for my style of camping, so I put in a Reimo camping
>> interior that
>> is similar to a Westy interior.  The van has a Ford Zetec engine
>> conversion that
>> was done by the guys at Bostig.com (sellers of the Zetec conversion)
>> themselves
>> and not some shade-tree mechanic.  The Zetec engine is a dream to
>> drive and
>> Bostig is working on a turbo if you feel the need for more power.
>> 
>> The van has front and rear  locking differentials, and a  de-
>> coupler.  On the
>> dash are Coolant temp, Oil pressure, Volts and Oil temp gauges (Oil
>> temp not
>> hooked up).   The tires are relatively new Michelin 235 r16 on
>> Borbet rims.
>> 
>> The van is advertised here:  http://www.busman.be/pagina57a.html
>> Price is
>> 19,000 Euros.
>> 
>> If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or Mike.
>> Malcolm