Why not buy both and convert them into a Syncro Westy!!!! Add the EuroSpec engine and you'd have one nice machine, with the other for spare parts!

BTW, our family loves our Syncro Westy -- I use it as a daily driver, my wife occasionally uses it as a portable artist studio (she's a pastel artist) and my daughter uses it as a "playhouse" for her friends. And the family uses it to go 4-wheeling on the beach as well as camping in the summer and fall (we're going up to Vermont/New Hampshire/Montreal next weekend).

In short, a most wonderful machine. Nothing else like it.

Cheers,

MJS

At 08:28 PM 9/24/98 -0700, J. Andersen wrote:

>In the last week I have been offered a 1982 diesel Westi and a 1986

>Syncro at what I feel are great prices.  My problem is I need an opinion

>from the list about the vans, both need motors.

>        The Syncro may need some drive train parts, tires, broken window

>repaired, and the air fixed.  The Westi needs a general cleaning and the

>seats redone. None of this is beyond my ability to fix but I would like

>to hear from list members what it is like to live with either one as an

>every day drive.

>

>        Drrufo

>        SOCal-81 vanagon(maybe changing soon)

<bold>Michael J. Sullivan

</bold><italic>Director of Catalog Design

Open Market, Inc.

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