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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 01/22/2019 at 19:05 • Filed to: None

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An eclectic mix of vehicles acquired over the last six months or so

(Yes, this is what it looks like when I’m procrastinat ing...)

Tristan > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/22/2019 at 19:38

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IS THAT A LARK WAGONAIRE?!?! GIB 2 ME!!!!!

BobintheMtns > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/22/2019 at 19:39

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I’d forgotten TC had a vw van.... rad

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > BobintheMtns 01/22/2019 at 20:16

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Heck yeah! An air cooled one at the beginning of the series, complete with the metal wheel covers (like my mom had on her ‘80) followed by one of the first ‘ 83.5 water cooled models with its plastic wheel covers (like I had). They never did upgrade past that water cooled one, so you’ll never see one on the show with the post-1986 rectangular headlights.

Road and Track even tested the water-cooled one at Tustin MCAS, close to where I lived (the magazine was based in Newport Beach for decades).

The Revell model was a little inaccurate. It did properly show an early air-cooled unit as used on the first three seasons of the show, but had the wrong wheel covers for that generation of van.

Although not listed in the credits, it seems that VW supplied a good portion of the cars used on the show. The luxury car at Robin’s Nest was an Audi 5000 (two generations), Carol’s car, as well as the Simon’s rental car, were Rabbit Convertibles, and I’m sure there are more examples. Originally the sports car was supposed to be a Porsche 928, but Porsche refused to modify cars for TV productions and thus the Ferrari 308 GTS/GTSi was chosen and modified by lowering/repositioning the seat so that Tom Selleck could drive it. Years later, as thank you gifts, Tom Selleck actually gave 928s to his co-stars on the show.

shop-teacher > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/22/2019 at 20:40

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Dat wagon!

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > shop-teacher 01/22/2019 at 20:49

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I had one as a child, and it was one of my old favorites. Recently I was watching Marty’s Matchbox Makeovers on YouTube and he restored one. At that moment I had to find another.

If you haven’t checked out Marty’s program I would recommend you do so. He’s down in Australia and puts on a silly, but entertaining, program usually about once a week. Watching the various episodes you can see his skills get better week after week.

shop-teacher > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/22/2019 at 20:53

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Cool! I'll check that out.

BobintheMtns > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/23/2019 at 13:34

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Holy shit. Thanks for the history lesson!

Yeah, I rocked a couple of ‘80 air-cooled vanagons for years... still miss those things !

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > BobintheMtns 01/23/2019 at 16:01

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No problem. I’m a bit of a nerd when it comes to Vanagons and that TV show.

Between my mother and I we had three Vanagons - the ‘80, the’83.5 and a’90. I was so bummed when she bought a new car as I was unemployed and couldn't justify buying her Carat. It was immaculate.  One of these days I'll have another, most likely a Westfalia, even though I have no intentions of going camping...

BobintheMtns > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/23/2019 at 16:37

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Yeah- used to live out of mine for 6-7 months out of the year while in college... Still miss those damn things...

And a synchro doka is on my dream car list.... someday..!

IFTNFS > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/31/2019 at 13:57

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Great mix!! Love the Island Hoppers van, but it’s hard to beat a Citroen or Cosmo!