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Why would you want a H van...does that mean that mean you are opening some sort of eatery van ;)
At a guess you have the details of the spares people in Belgium.
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The H van thing goes back a long way to Family holidays camping in France, seeing the ugly corrugated pigs used in markets. Then having messed around with, tuned and restored stuff for years, i have decided I want a family camper/day van for holidays with my own kids. The h i got is very good and will get modern running gear, if i dont like how it drives as stock. They are rarer in France than here now! I think about 500 have made it here. I will be serving tea and cake from it but to my self!
Ps very interesting section, good to see what people like and dont like. Personally i limit my self to what I can afford, and although I have driven that blue car and lots of other stuff i have been more than content buying cars for £400 and spending money as and when i have it, then having something worth twice what i have spent and using it for 5 years or so. With some of the projects, I spoke to specialists who would say only they could do something or no you cant do that. I just got on and put my theories into practice and it usually worked out well. I would put a rotary in the H van but the noise and smell would stop the wife coming on holiday! Plus the cost of getting a bellhousing adapter made up would pay for an old passat tdi which has all the conversion parts needed.
VintageJon
Fanks, I grew up around nice cars but got into stuff i could afford on low wages, which has been great fun. I learnt about fiat 500s back in the 80s and was able to build a good Abarth replica. Then I discovered the rotary engine in the late 90s and had 10 years of giggles with them. Something that tickled my fancy about mazda rotaries came when i sold my fiat 500 to a kiwi guy living in London, he told me about roatries in NZ with twin v12 E type jag fuel pumps that could not keep up with the fuel requirment at full revs! Needdless to say when I got out to Nz I was captivated by the brap brap one could hear when walking around Wellington in the late 90s.
I like all sorts classic cars but something in me liked odd more than obvious. I went to Spa Francershamps with my uncle when I was 17, he was running a Chevron B8. I spent my time looking at Dkw Juniors and fiat 600 Abarths rather than lusting after the big expensive stuff. I hope to have my H van on the road very soon, a different sort of pleasure but Im sure it will bring some satisfaction.