I’m @fakecharlesguan and I collect horrible vans.

I have many ven

Hey what is your opinion on this car? I dunno, I’ve never owned one. I thought you were into cars? Yeah, I’m into shitty vans... do you want a shitty van, because I have five.

People take me for a “car guy”, but in reality I’m only a “3 specific models of horrible 80s van” guy. I know those inside and out, but show me almost any other well-regarded classic sports car or race car and I just go “Yeah, that’s car shaped alright. It’s a nice one.”

> fuckable

Can confirm, have a “White Knuckle” Grand Caravan. It’s the most opposite of that you can imagine.

I will say the Wrangler is pretty on the money for who I’d expect it to be.

You can have traditional brakes with a direct drive. They will either be a little inset into the motor in profile (so the motor itself is a bit of a dish) or located slightly inboard. Keep in mind these motors are basically thin rings on the inside and wouldn’t need all the solid volume in the center.

Higher, yes, but not really more than a live/solid axle would be in any modern truck. It’s a tradeoff.

I disagree. Delicas are perfection, and they are also much sportier than their dopey appearance lend.

Delica😭😭😭

HEY DAVID AND JALOPNIK. DUE TO THE IMPENDING LOSS OF SEVERAL PILES FROM YOUR MENAGERIE HOW ABOUT I OFFER SOME OF MY PILES TO WRITE ABOUT? GUARANTEED PILEWORTHY OR YOUR... uhh.... time BACK!!! (can you refund time?)

In just the past month alone I’ve dragged home not one, but two van piles, to add to my existing van…

The thing I can’t stand about the contemporary direction of car design, especially SUV and truck design, is they always contain multiple cars within them

I’ll take a flying F150!

We can make that problem exist fairly easily.

Do I know you?

This is how I always talk to the Centurion vantruck, as if it were some large, dopey bovid creature. Especially when it was beige-on-brown.

This is perfectly Derpy 80s Van sized. The 4G64 of a Mitsubishi USDM van was 105HP. This will feat neatly behind the rear axle, a location I wanted to put my own electric conversion in. Build a De Dion tube rear axle and use half-shafts.

All the local yards I go to here in Atlanta - Pull-a-Part, UWrench It, and S&W are open. Protocols look fairly similar and when I went to PaP and UWrenchIt I’d say a good 2/3rds of customers and all staff had masks.

Yeah they could (and do - the current-generation Toyota Hiace and Nissan NV in Japan are all cab-over with airbags and crash cells in the front) but nobody would buy it in the US because we’re all afraid of cab-over anything now.