>>28908248
I once owned a 1997 E150 Club Wagon. It was gud.

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My cuntry didn't embrace recreational van culture. All of our vans are work vans. But we do have panel vans.

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>>28908248
They're a lot of fun, anon.
The good:
>Comfy seats
>V8 noises, if a bit hard to hear over the engine fan
>Come with TVs, perfect to Miracast your phone to or hook up a game console to
>Good ground clearance, as they tend to be built on truck frames
>Curtains make for great privacy if you don't want to be seen eating $40 of taco bell alone at 11:57PM on a monday
>HEAVY, so the lack of 4x4 is irrelevant during the winter, good luck losing traction in a 6000 pound vehicle
>Tend to have 15 inch tires, won't rattle your teeth over every bump like modern cars
>Look cool as fuck
>Aftermarket stereo installation is easy, plenty of room for huge subs
>Can live in it if your house burns down
>Rear seat should fold into a bed for having sex with OP's mom
>Cheap parts
>Spare tire on the back is based
>Glass headlights will never fade
>Will run like shit longer than some vehicles will run at all
>Can sit in the driver's seat while working on the engine
The bad:
>Actually accessing the engine is a lot more involved than just opening the hood, especially if you're like me and you wired a ton of switches to the center console
>Getting working rear air conditioning is possible, but expensive and a massive pain in the ass, looking back I'd recommend just ripping it out and retrofitting something newer
>10mpg at five dollars a gallon fucking hurts
>Aerodynamics of a brick with wheels
>Nobody is going to think your van is cool at the gas station :(
>If you have a high top, you probably won't be able to stand up in it, and you won't be able to fit it into the automatic carwash either (but it'll still fit in various drivethroughs)
>Rear ladder is basically decorative unless you're an actual twig or a child
>Any van with fancy sidesteps and fenders and shit is going to rust BAD behind them unless well taken care of and probably never driven in salt
>People are going to make child molester jokes because 'haha you're driving a big old van' and they will get old very fast
>IT SLOW

i wish vanning was still a thing

>>28908293
Thays a panel wagon.

>>28908248
vanlife is good. i wasted most of my working time in euro vans like vw transporter t4/t5/t6 and above, mercedes vito, toyota hilux, most of the french ones, ford transit, ford E250...
i also got my experience with 80s and 90s ford and gm vans. one of the points with a van is to have a flat floor from the rear doors to the drivers seat. in eurovans thats no problem its transverse engine fwd (or fancy awd) but only ford E series managed to make that somewhat possible in their vans. you still got the doghouse but its way less in the way compared to gm or dodge vans.
and another thing is vanlife is not about screaming hp-at-rpm gasser engines, and only ford put a diesel worth its price into a van, the 7,3...
>t. 2011 transit awd diesel tuned driver
im not the slowest guy around even when towing

>>28908475
not in it's country of origin

>>28908293
what's going on in this pic?

>>28909222
brother and sister in a warm embrace in the back of dad's panel van.

>>28908248
I sometimes miss my E-150 cargo van. Two seats, a cavernous interior, and nothing else. If I hadn't found exactly the right pick-up I might have tried to find another van.

>>28908248
van dude here, you can still find them from time to time on govdeals. good luck.

I hope rebuilding a TBI isn't hard, my van is leaking gas into the oil and I don't think it's the injectors

>>28912762
Remove them and have em tested anyways

>>28913454
who even tests injectors anymore, everything just gets replaced at any sign of trouble nowadays