STOLEN Split screen VW

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Mrsambulancekidd

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This is a copy & paste from a post on faceache, I don't know this person or anyone connected with them.

Dave Robjohns
Yesterday at 18:12
COULD ANYONE WHO HAS RELATIONS OR FRIENDS IN GLASGOW OR STRANRAER AREAS ASK THEM TO POST THIS PLEASE ?
Original post by Millie Collis.
Last night our 1967 splitscreen screen Devon campervan (RHD) was stolen in Dagenham, LONDON. The van took over two years to restore and we are devastated it has been taken. Please share this post and get in touch if you see this van driving about. Registration is PHV 950E
The last time anyone reported seeing it were very positive sightings heading towards Glasgow...Once being driven, then on the back of a recovery truck on the m74 heading from junction 12 towards Glasgow, possibly heading for Stranraer to go to Ireland.
Please keep sharing and make it too hot to handle
The van means so much to me and my family, every share is appreciated!! Thank you
PLEASE SHARE NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE FROM it’s very likely the bus is going to be taken out of the uk.
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Which direction? M74 J12 would only be heading for the central belt, nowhere near Stranraer. If it does get to a ferry port it will be intercepted by the police if registered as stolen, police and customs checks are 100% here.
 
WillH said:
Which direction? M74 J12 would only be heading for the central belt, nowhere near Stranraer. If it does get to a ferry port it will be intercepted by the police if registered as stolen, police and customs checks are 100% here.
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I have no idea, but your right as being on the M74 would add around 120 miles to their journey if they were heading for Stranraer........
 
That's a bloody long way to Stranraer if they are heading to Glasgow.
They had to pass the A75 to get to where they were (allegedly) seen.
I would take the shortest route to the ferry.
It's not going to Ireland.

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pappajohn said:
That's a bloody long way to Stranraer if they are heading to Glasgow.
They had to pass the A75 to get to where they were (allegedly) seen.
I would take the shortest route to the ferry.
It's not going to Ireland.
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Actually, when I was planning our trip to Ireland, using the Stranraer ferry, my satnav told me to head north to Glasgow before returning south along the coast as being faster than the A75 route. This was, of course, from the North East but I don't think there's actually that much in it.

But whatever way it's going, that is one highly distinctive van, even if it is taken out of the country. Enough publicity should get some idea of where it is now.
 
TerryL said:
Actually, when I was planning our trip to Ireland, using the Stranraer ferry, my satnav told me to head north to Glasgow before returning south along the coast as being faster than the A75 route. This was, of course, from the North East but I don't think there's actually that much in it.

But whatever way it's going, that is one highly distinctive van, even if it is taken out of the country. Enough publicity should get some idea of where it is now.
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living here and knowing the roads well , if going to Ireland from London it should’t be anywhere near j12
 
TerryL said:
But whatever way it's going, that is one highly distinctive van, even if it is taken out of the country
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Maybe so, but its a lot more road miles, much of it motorway, and a lot more chance of being seen.

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No sign of it yet?. The (sad) suspicion would be it is now, or soon will be, dismantled for "spares". Unless it is already out of the UK. The "van" comunity in the UK are unlikely to touch it, it is too "hot", but good spares command a high price. As (it looks) a RH drive?. it would be harder to sell as an export out side the UK.
 
Its a samba and probally been drove into the back of a lorry and transported where it needs to go to be split up for parts shame,had 3 splitys came out of it as sceene was getting to greedy.
 
mike mcglynn said:
As Jaws has said that model is really rare it’s called the Skyliner and has probably been stolen to order.
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Never heard one called a skyliner before, always known as a samba, 21 or 23 window. Not as rare as you think. There is a huge VW scene in the uk. If you go to Busfest in Malvern in September you will see lots of them. Besides all that I feel sorry for the owners as peaple do get attached to them. Hope they had a proper agreed value insurance on it. And has been said it was properly stolen to order to be stripped down. The scene is to big for it to be out there looking the same as it did when stolen.

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Few years back my mate who owns a large plant hire firm had a phone call from the docks to say they had found his stolen dumper :xThumb:

It was in the back of a lorry along with a VW camper van, lorry was Polish registered.
They must steal stuff to order and then make up a full load for the trip by the look of it.
Mates dumper still had the stickers on!

Had a 21ton excavator stolen from Woking years ago and they never found that! Not the easiest things to hide.
 
Looks like a nice restoration. It will be a great shame if it is broken for spares.

I think I would have been tempted to put a tracker on it, if I had done that much work to restore it.
 
Worth a lot of money if the examples on this page are any clue: £60K+.

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Hindsight is a wonderful thing but if it had had a tracker fitted.... :(

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