Yes and no. They’re certainly “alt-classic” and turn heads, and are fundamentally made of Ford truck parts, of which there are more than there are atoms in the universe.

However, the Econoline and really all legacy full-size vans are legendary for being service nightmares because of how packed full of gear the engine…

This needs to be on a blog, website, or other searchable/indexable format.

The current sheet metal style and tail lights, minus the Super Duty headlights, started from 1992. So just backswapping the front clip will make it 90s-correct on the first order. Like I said, plenty of 92-07 owners go the other direction and get a 08+ front from the junkyard.

hey that’s my line

Should have given me a buzz, I would have sold you one of my ignominious malformed vans for low ruble. The front two are both IDI diesels.

“I’m going to swing down there and pick up all of the front end sheetmetal to do a body backdate.”

This is the first time I’ve ever heard of anybody going this direction. Made even more convincing by the one-year-only “90s interior, 00s exterior” crossover point. Nobody will ever know.  It’s like you 6.0 swapped a 90s…

They all run and drive though, because I have principles. All are more functional than David Tracy’s armada.

At this point I can somehow turn a mild profit on my 2016 Grand Caravan if I resell it to Carvana or one of the other online vendors. That’s not something I expected to ever have “resale value”.

Of course, I need 1 functioning normal-people van to justify having 8 dysfunctional van piles, so I’m not gonna do it.

Consider it lack of exposure. I just have been conditioned to believe that every German car has an Audi S4 V8 timing chain array inside it somewhere that will explode the moment you look at it (but only after removing the entire front of the car, all the accessory drives, and engine because it’s on the back side) and…

I dunno man, I’m kind of thrilled to see simple geometric elements return to auto design instead of everything getting more and more Baroque and edgy.

Reddit has scared me away from ever owning anything German, so anything BMW, Audi, or Mercedes is likely going to cause me to scream...

*scrolls down and hits check box and Next*

So I read Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) a whole lot and this story was also linked there - in the comments, someone posted a link to this short story, which I enjoyed reading a bunch while twirling my invisible moustache about The Gig Dystopia we live in: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Remember when Bring a Trailer was for terrible, run-down project piles? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Yeah, I wish this content had a less cancerous home....

Plenty do. The current-generation Hiace and Nissan NV350 come to mind. Full set of airbags.

As for if they’ll ever overcome the “Modern Crash Test Standards” of American safety ninnies is another question.

Yeah, no. My TLC was directed at people who clutch pearls about an abstract notion of “safety” every time a non-US market vehicle is presented as a conduit for reassuring themselves that they are socioeconomically above someone else.

It’s not about safety, it’s about pointing down and laughing. “I am concerned about…

My top level comment was directed at someone like you. Please read it and understand you are part of the reason why we cannot have alternatives to crossover SUVs at the moment.

So to answer your question, me. I would. I’d take it on every residential, surface road, state road, and county road around me. It’ll be just…

I need to make sure that everyone understands the reason we don’t have things like the Hong Guan Mini is entirely political and social, not technical or economic. It would be literally illegal to build similar low-cost cars here because our transportation laws metastasized in the 1950s to 1960s to center around the…

Can you explain the difference between a Maxi and a Can? It seems like I’m having a hard time pulling up diagrams that aren’t just reprints or identical to the ones in this article. I was under the impression that all air brake actuators on trucks (like, literally all of them on one truck not meaning types thereof)…