Up for some exploring?: ’69 VW Syncro Doka Tristar

These Syncros are the darling of expedition fans and adventurers. Read on and you’ll know why. In 1983, the water-cooled engined vehicles allowed VW to rethink four-wheel drive. This time VW decided that they would not use the well-tested “Quattro” system already installed on their sister companies Audi range but instead they went for a completely new and different “Ferguson” system (originally invented by a Briton). They called it the Syncro and although the vehicle itself was exceptionally good it was expensive. The logistics of the manufacturing process, that involved a lot of moving around partially built trucks, contributed to the high price. Initially, body shells from the Hanover works were delivered to the Steyer-Daimler-Puch works at Graz, Austria to be fitted with their 4WD train. Read More