I left the cobwebs for now though, since it really was just a beater. I began using the Van for work. I had been out of work for a while and my friend Peter was retiring and selling his walk up coffee stand on the mall of our state capitol.
The van fit my umbrella or awning plus my supplies perfectly. After having used the Land Rover for this task, I was a little embarrassed driving this beater up on the mall every morning and afternoon to unload and load my stuff. But it was infinitely more practical than the Disco. Eventually after driving it long enough, I began to realize that besides having to add water to it every few days, it was not such a beater.
I cleaned up the interior and began driving it as our primary family vehicle. But I digress. You may wonder what happened to this little gem? A certain person who hails from Haiti and was mentioned in another post happened to it!
You see, the unnamed person was in the habit of borrowing my Land Rover or Van for his camping trips with his wife. Since he owned Saabs this made perfect sense! One day he asked to borrow the Van. I warned him bout the water, well you can guess the rest. Amazingly it did still run sort of. But I knew I would never get around to rebuilding the engine, so I put it on Craigslist. Several days latter a lady called up and wanted to give me a deposit to hold it for a month.
Normally I think scam, but she sounded legit. She still wanted it bad. So I took her money via Paypal and held it. When she came down to get it she was ecstatic! However, I am a bit gun-shy now that two have met their near-death in my ownership! Just the ticket! Much, much later, I got hold of a passenger van; and while the engine was dying a slow death from several previous overheats —.
Love the driving experience. Had a Chevy briefly; it needed more work than I could afford and with no shop, doing it myself was out of the question. Had a Vanagon, which I liked but which nickel-and-dimed me to the curb; but the winner could have been, if I could have found one and found a way to upgrade the cooling system, would have been that generation of Toy.
Speaking of these vans, saw one the other day I think getting cash out of a Chase Bank teller machine. It looked straight, but the paint seemed a bit rough though but yes, it was being driven under its own steam as the guy had just parked it and had gotten out as I strode past on my way home from the grocery store. I wonder if it was a factory or dealer option? I heard that some were imported as cargo vans and then converted by some company. It had something to do with tariffs or something.
I think the same company did most of them. I believe those vans disappeared due to some horrible front and side impact ratings. I do recall seeing a few victims in the boneyards of So. Great sized van though, had a neighbor with one. Sometimes, safety is overrated.
Rather than have government ban these things or their design, I think the fair way would be just to RATE them — and let buyers take their chances. I agree with you on just rating them. But I must correct one slight flaw in what you said.
The Vanagon had excellent frontal impact performance. The myth you are referring to seems to have started from a Youtube video of and orange Transporter pancaking into a wall in what looks like an impact test. I was worried about that and then I researched it and found video of real tests. The Youtube orange one was was to test the impact wall. If you watch it you will find that there are no reference markers, no dummies, no speed data etc.
It was propelled at some ungodly speed to test the facility. But they have more bracing up front than you might think when you get to looking at them.
Yeah, I saw that; and since the engine weight was in the rear, and really nothing but the body ahead of the axle…it seemed logical that the front might collapse. The traditional chassis rails split into two in front of the front axle, sort of like a wishbone in a chicken.
Toyota said it spread and absorbed impacts much better than competitor vans with a single rail. If you want to buy a safe car, get one with great safety ratings. On first blush, the Toyota looks like an also-ran; with the added problem of accessibility for engine servicing. The Toyota feels a LOT more substantial; has superior forward visibility and driving position; is shorter but with more interior room.
But it was no matter; the van was a stopgap until Toyota could bring in a better product, with the long carlike nose buyers expected. FWD was two redesigns away. Fundamental problem is that your feet are in the crush zone. Had a guy at work years ago run up the back of a parked car at about 30mph, enough to slide the full-length roof rack about a foot forward.
He ended up with a broken foot. Both are 4X4s. It was sitting a few weeks ago on the back of a scrappers trailer hours away from being pack with other junk and hauled for recycling. I need a front Y-pipe for the exhaust to one day change with my spare new manifold and have run out of options. I had one of these 4 wd Toyota cargo van and loved it. I loved it so much that when it got into an accident not my fault I purchased another one with a blown engine just to fix it.
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