Once Lee gets his van up and running that will make 3 known European Vans. Coincidentally, a few days after I bought my van I met another Dutch Subaru dealer vacationing in Germany, and when we got to talking it turned out he knew my van from the dealer Mathieu, where he also got most his cars. He ...

And I've been meaning to ask, what is that thing that looks like the choke, but on the opposite side of the steering wheel? The knob's missing so I can't tell from that, and pulling it doesn't seem to do anything obvious.

One advantage with the Subaru is NO DRIVE BELT (unlike DAF) :D Ah, yes. Thank goodness it has a proper gearbox and clutch with a dozen readily available moving parts that never break or wear out after 50 years, rather than some weird $100 rubber band that you have to replace every decade. Really do...

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention: As you can probably tell from the pictures, at some point in the van's life some flapdrol thought it would be a good idea to cut 4 great big holes in it and put some big orange Volkswagen Beetle turn signal lights on it. So yeah... that happened.

Hi there, I'm Jan Pieter from the Netherlands and I just bought what may very well be the only 360 Sambar Deluxe in my country. (And definitely the first one) So rather than starting my own Dutch 360 club with myself as president, treasurer and only member, I thought I'd join yours. Just forgive me ...