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Looking forward to seeing your progress! It's sure fun to have a blank canvas to work with.

Very, very interesting! What an amazing place to be. Please keep the updates coming! Checking the blog out now...

Yeah, gorgeous color for sure! Does your V10 purr like mine? I love it...

Countin' the minutes, man! It felt so good on the 1st of the month cause I had about $1000 due for DMV renewals and they got nothing but two giant middle fingers. I think I saw the "Ex" this morning. Was it backed into a spot by the hill?

Congrats on the Excursion, Terry. I have an '03 V10 and absolutely love it. Same thing, always admired them but wasn't in the market til I saw one on eBay in LA and picked it up about two yrs ago for $7900. It's the Limited Eddie Bauer and everything has been utterly perfect about it. Put new...

Nice to see some updates pics of the van and glad to hear abour our trip, Rune. Best wishes on the sale!

That is too cool! Heading down to La Paz for 6 weeks first thing in the morning. As soon as it's a permanent move, I'm going to do the EGR delete as well. Nothin' but trouble!

Shhhhhhhhhhh. In the current Liberal, anti-American environment, that is a very "uncool" position to take and facts be damned. Anything Oriental is the **** and American is so not hip.

Okay, surely I'm not the only one who thinks that is anything but cool. I'll stick with what I can get parts for on any corner and looks like what most people think of a real van looking like (outside of North Korea or wherever that thing is made). If I tried picking my kids up for school in...

That's pretty difficult for most to do with lingering memories of the decades of the 70s, 80s, and 90s and especially with the anti-American media, most notably Consumer Reports that is extremely anti-American to the point of losing all credibility.

I think you just answered your own question. You have very specific opinions on what you want just like the rest of us. You don't trust a SMB but would take a '72 Suburban out there? You're kidding right? :sombrero: No, for the specific application I come here to discuss, I would not even...

That's not what I said at all, is it?

I love the Hiace (though the ones I've rented in the Yucatan and Riviera Maya look different than above.) But it's extremely underpowered for anything other than moving 6-8 people around on asphalt roads in excellent condition. I mean choosing a Hiace for what we do is like choosing a SMB for an...

I'm trying to understand this concept. Maybe I'm just dense or you're kidding? Maybe that Sienna would be a good trailer to drag behind for a couple of the kids to sleep in? Well, maybe one kid anyway. I mean, why not go all the way and make a Kia Optima into a camper? Or a Nissan Cube? Nothing...

Sickness? What is this sickness you speak? :sombrero: That is a freakin' man's van right there.

That would be a great help! Do you have them?! :wings:

I should have weighed in by now with my praise too. I had to call the wife in to see your rig; very well done, man! I have emailed my fab guy this pic: It takes him forever to get around to me but I'd love to have this done by October when I head back South again. Thanks for the great thread...

Okay, I guess I should have just had the balls to say what I really felt: For my family and I, a Syncro can't compare on any level to what we have, and to be quite honestly, especially on the "cool" factor. It's not even close. I could drag a Synrco sideways down the 70 mile long creekbeds I...

I would vigorously disagree with that and doubt that I'm alone. Like Bill, I don't see how you can compare the two because it all boils down to what you want. Personally, I don't give my camper a human name, it doesn't have a heart or a soul, and I don't care about VW nostalgia. And I can...

Okay, been back from Baja for a few days and just thought I'd update the thread. I got under the van this morning to change the oil and discovered a couple of things. First, the transmission pan is leaking from one side and I found a broken motor mount. For info on that and other van...