strange miniature VW campervan on M50

mondeo · 14-09-2011 10:12pm #1

At about 6:15pm this evening on the slip road for the North bound Firhouse/knockylon exit there was a miniature VW campervan look a like thing in silver. It was parked on the edge of the slip road with a mirror effect rear window tint and a little black square hatch on the bottom right of the rear window. Very strange indeed, surely not a speed camera van in EXTREME diguise or maybe someone filming somthing? ...

Surely someone here must have seen it also, you wouldn't miss this weird little van made up to look like a VW Van, it had a blue stripe on the front of it. Curiosity is killing me on this one!.

peasant · 14-09-2011 10:40pm

something like this?

http://www.subarusambar.co.uk/

Arciphel · 14-09-2011 10:43pm

How cool is that!

mondeo · 14-09-2011 10:49pm

peasant wrote: »

something like this?

http://www.subarusambar.co.uk/

Very similar to what I had seen. It was bloody tiny little thing.

Lucifer · 14-09-2011 10:52pm

It was still there but on the back of a tow truck when I passed at 7:30

mondeo · 14-09-2011 10:54pm

Lucifer wrote: »

It was still there but on the back of a tow truck when I passed at 7:30

Well that explains why he was parked there

Alan b. · 14-09-2011 11:07pm

mondeo wrote: »

peasant wrote: »

something like this?

http://www.subarusambar.co.uk/

Very similar to what I had seen. It was bloody tiny little thing.

Was a pair of them for sale in the car dealer beside clarehall for a long time.

amdublin · 14-09-2011 11:09pm

Cute!

Are they proper campers???

barura · 14-09-2011 11:49pm

That is the dogs bolox! Awesome!

Notch000 · 14-09-2011 11:56pm

I lift a lift in one of those in south america last year, it was rally replica in WRC blue with with the gold alloys & 555 stickers,
Great craic going over a mountain pass doing 4 wheel drive drifts

aido 1976 · 15-09-2011 12:09am

I want one, cool little yoke :-)

Alan b. · 15-09-2011 12:17am

amdublin wrote: »

Cute!

Are they proper campers???

Not really. More like a lite ace, or Bedford rascal van.

barura · 15-09-2011 12:19am

Is there any where stocking these in ireland??

Christ0pher · 15-09-2011 11:08am

As a VW type 2 lover - I have to go on record as saying it's about a cool as fake Burberry, or a €10 Rolex. :eek:
I'd rather wear barbed wire britches than be seen anywhere near one of those things. Wouldn't you rather have something like this: :cool:

http://www.cosyclassics.ie/Ed-s-Split_AT7TQ.aspx

IrishZeus · 15-09-2011 11:31am

Christ0pher wrote: »

As a VW type 2 lover - I have to go on record as saying it's about a cool as fake Burberry, or a €10 Rolex. :eek:
I'd rather wear barbed wire britches than be seen anywhere near one of those things. Wouldn't you rather have something like this: :cool:

http://www.cosyclassics.ie/Ed-s-Split_AT7TQ.aspx

Nope.

gbob · 15-09-2011 11:50am

IrishZeus wrote: »

Nope.

:D:D

Christ0pher · 15-09-2011 1:17pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

Nope.

Ah ok IrishZeus - I know what you're into:

IrishZeus · 15-09-2011 1:23pm

Christ0pher wrote: »

Ah ok IrishZeus - I know what you're into:

Sex on wheels my good man, sex on wheels....

Mr Benevolent · 15-09-2011 1:27pm

Christ0pher wrote: »

:pac: Looks like a Barbie toy.

dr.fuzzenstein · 15-09-2011 2:33pm

Christ0pher wrote: »

As a VW type 2 lover - I have to go on record as saying it's about a cool as fake Burberry, or a €10 Rolex. :eek:
I'd rather wear barbed wire britches than be seen anywhere near one of those things. Wouldn't you rather have something like this: :cool:

http://www.cosyclassics.ie/Ed-s-Split_AT7TQ.aspx

Anyone who doesn't like this, you have no soul.
Seriously, this is cool on wheels, I am right, this is a fact about as sure as the laws of physics.
Anyone who say otherwise, you're just wrong.;)

But how 'bout this:

dr.fuzzenstein · 15-09-2011 2:35pm

BTW, was it this?
It's a new VW concept.

Run_to_da_hills · 15-09-2011 3:17pm

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

But how 'bout this:

Thats like something you would see on the airport tarmac.

Pdfile · 15-09-2011 3:32pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

Nope.

i agree, VW campers are overkilled... kei cars/light micro vans are cooler then cool.

IrishZeus · 15-09-2011 3:43pm

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Anyone who doesn't like this, you have no soul.
Seriously, this is cool on wheels, I am right, this is a fact about as sure as the laws of physics.
Anyone who say otherwise, you're just wrong.;)

Ya and next you'll be tellin' us all that there's an invisible force pinning us to the surface of the earth and a magical faery shield protecting us from the sun...

:D

neilthefunkeone · 15-09-2011 4:22pm

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

BTW, was it this?
It's a new VW concept.

Yeah i have heard VW using Firhouse as their new testing grounds for concepts!!:pac:

dr.fuzzenstein · 15-09-2011 7:42pm

neilthefunkeone wrote: »

Yeah i have heard VW using Firhouse as their new testing grounds for concepts!!:pac:

Ooooh, look out for some interesting Bentley, Bugatti and Lamborghini prototypes!:D
(But it has to be said the Bulli is gobsmackingly gorgeous)

rameire · 15-09-2011 8:42pm

i saw this asshat yesterday, just after junction 13 heading north on the M50, he was crawling along weaving from lane one to the hardshoulder.
he would have been better just picking it up and putting it in his pocket and hitching a lift, instead of causing all the disruption he did.

peasant · 15-09-2011 10:08pm

How about this then?

:D:D

dr.fuzzenstein · 16-09-2011 9:24am

peasant wrote: »

How about this then? :D:D

Now that brings back memories, I used to have the "civilian" version of this, a Daihatsu "van", it had a 1 litre, 3 cylinder engine, non-permanent 4 wheel drive, it was a massive hoot!

Pdfile · 19-09-2011 12:19am

im dying to get a daihatsu midget or similar but ive only street parked for the time being and im 100% sure someone will vandalize it so... :mad:

homer90 · 19-09-2011 6:18am

Funny this thread should sprout up !
Spotted this in Auckland over the weekend... Turned a few heads needless to say

-Chris- · 19-09-2011 8:30am

Jesus, that looks like if you braked hard it'd just tip onto its nose!

strange miniature VW campervan on M50

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