One Of A Kind

A 1979 air cooled T3 syncro? Mike Ghia tells us the story behind this one off creation.

- Mike Ghia

Visitors to Busfest will know Mike; not only does he organise the T3 syncro displays and arena obstacle course, he has also demonstrated doing a 2wd > 4wd conversion over a weekend at the show! Always up for a challenge, Mike decided to convert an early 1979 air cooler into a syncro.

“I spent years building up an original VW T3 Transporter (Limey) 1989 Syncro 16” Kombi into a full-on Westfalia (using factory equipment) pop-top and then High-top. On top of that, I wanted to have it the tallest, the quickest, the best shopping, the best off-road, etc… well I got some of what I wanted but you can’t have everything in one van and just having one of the above points costs money, so trying to do all of them costs mega-money and silly amounts of time. Would I do the same again? Hell no! After waving goodbye to Limey (Divorces are expensive huh!) I started thinking about a replacement.