Hoping to buy a '90 Westfalia Florida

Looks like a very smart van. Mines got 300 k on it too, with new head fitted 15k ago. We love ours, i'm sure you will too!

I guess I won't be posting any pictures of my dildo.....

On the way back to Italy (i live close to Milan) we made a little deviation to see her and the rest was as i said in my previous post.

Anyway i'm happy for you , it is so clear to me that this was you van and you were choosen from her, that i can quite touch your joy!

Westfalias LT  here in Italy were not understand mainly because of our "latin" character: we need to show to other the appearance in order to qualify us as rich and whealty, and for that we need something bigger and full of amenities . If you take a look at our RV production it explains you all; that isn't to say that we build bad RVs, it' s only a totally different philosopy.

When you read italians RV forums the main repeated post is something like: "hey guys i want to get 160+ km/h with my Turbo Ducato, who can done a good chip to me?"

That shows you all, we're really stupid here!

Thanks for your advice about driving the LT, i am confident with the n/a LT engine as i test drove various Sven Hedins here and probably since this is an "old school engine" my expectations were a little too high; anyway what i said about speed it's not my philosopy, to me good times begins when i start the engine and the joy is to travel and learn new things, not to arrive. I'm not in a hurry when i'm on holiday, i want to be safe for me and my darlings.

What to say more? I started to look around from about six months so far, and i saw pretty everything was on offer here! 

The mai problem found is what i said at the beginning of my post: these veicles were not understand here, for that reason you find a lot of them full of post mods in the most cases done without head: bigger fridges fitted ruining the dildo, Cassette wc inserted by cutting the panels inside and outside, missing awnings with holes everywhere, electric wirings cutted and jointed because "this bigger battery is a plus" and so on...

The best vehicle found was a 1987 Sven Hedin in  the Turbo LT31 form, with the straight dildo and the rear door exit like yours, one owner since new and 140k kilometers on the clock, very clean in/out (and very vintage, since you know it's brown and beige!). The LT31 is important to me because you can load 6 people day driving  (LT 28 here reports only 4 on the vehicle documents, and that can be limitating to me). 

So i hope to join this community very soon, thanks for all and all my best for the moment

Davide

Nice to see such a clean and tidy dildo too.

I'm too (for long) in the process to buy a VW Westfalia LT Campervan and i'm looking both to Sven Hedins and Floridas. 

Here in Italy these models were not so appreciated at the time and there are very few around; for this reason i was forced to look around Europe and Germany was the obvious choice.

I went to Neufarn in 12/20/2013 to have a look at what now is your Campervan.

It was for sale from a general car reseller and it was here from a long time. The main reason for that is because it failed the TUV because of a brake problem and a front suspension worn. The clock also read something like 300k+ kilometers.

The seller was asking for 7k.- € "as is" and there was no chance to negotiate, so we pass and left, also because of the hole made on the top for the TV antenna mast (what a bad idea to create a water passage in such a beautiful van).

We foud (i have plenty of pics in my camera) various rust spots scattered around, mainly at the corners of the windscreen, and at the joints of the panels as found in the majority of the LTs.

Unfortunately for you, there was no reason to me to take a photo of the clock, so i haven't one if you ask. I went also for a quick testdrive and i was not very impressed with the general performance of the engine: i found them very poor also because this is a turbo engine, ad i test drove various n/a LTs it was expected to me to feel a difference but it was not perceible at all.

This does not mean that you got a bad Florida; just to fix that wolfs are everywhere and are very able to understand our ingenuity when we're excited for a new toy...

Anyway despite that shock I'm still living the dream. Cleaned her from top to bottom and started tinkering with some bits and bobs. Those VW mud flaps arrived from Corsica so when the rain finally stopped I went out and fitted them and decided to take a few more photos. 

I tried to capture a little bit more of my good fortune - she's in such good condition there's a lot of pressure on for me to look after her well and I hate the fact that she's out there in the rain in the road, but hey ho - she'll be basking in the sun soon enough!

Clean, tidy dildo

Loving how new the Westfalia interior still looks and feels after 24 years!

Complete with vintage home entertainment centre! (tv/vhs unit free to collector!)

That carpeting has got to go!

I know - you're all just staring up in amazement at that blue sky right!

This is the only rust spot on her skirts that I could find :)

And doesn't she sit well. This was one of the main reasons I had to fly out to Munich and see her.

I'm not going to miss these export plates when the DVLA finally pull their fingers out!

Needed new swivel joints on both sides. Parts were cheap; labour not. It took 3 of them with a great big wheel nut lever to loosed her bolts before they could get under there! 

Still the guy who did the MOT was suitably impressed by her condition underneath. The mechanic that owned her had done whatever was needed as it was needed. He'd finished the test but offered to drive her back up the ramp so I could see. New springs, new shocks, new pipes here and there, and amazingly clean.

Paperwork all now off with the DVLA. That blasted V55/5 used vehicle reg form is a mare though. Anticipating it coming back and annoying Adrian Flux who need to see progress by next Thursday...  We'll see.

Anyway the wonders continue. Opened the roof box for the first time today. Guess what's in there? An unused Omnistor safari room for the awning! Amazing.

Posting a tech question about the water system tonight though... do they really not have micro-switched taps?!