Mickeyspinn
rBotM Winner
I know the workshop and guys that van came from....some very cunning trickery went into that engine and the running gear...with hindsight it was actually a bargain ....but then I did um and ahh over 18k for a kink screen 356 from the Stuttgart workshop....I'd own a house now if I'd bought that!I blame that twat Jamie Oliver!
The VW scene was mainly young, skint, working-class dudes struggling to keep their daily drivers on the road.. the bus he bought was on the market for years.. we all used to laugh at the price.. nobody is going to spend £10k on a splitty, surely?
Oliver comes along, buys the most expensive bus in a vain attempt to increase his street cred, inflating the market in the process.. his middle-class admireers followed and all of a sudden the festivals are full of folks eating artisan bread with quinoa and romanesco sprinkled with chia seeds!!
..now you can't buy a bus for less than £40k...Damn you Oliver!!!
Still I did own possibly the rarest early bay for a while....that'd probably got me a nice flat by now!
Now I'm skint destitute and ride bikes...