There was this van that seated 12 and was very old and beat up and dinged and our mechanic bought to fix it up and put a new engine in it and then discovered it was too large for him to park it at his house so he put it up for sale and I bought it. I was in the middle of staying home with the kids and taking in other people's kids for after school and summer and it worked well. It was old and I didn't care if food or drinks got spilled. There was a fold up table. It took us all over the city and to the beach. Later it took the Boy Scouts camping.There were problems with it. It stood 6'8" so there were parking structures it couldn't drive in. I had to park across a major street from a LA Mall and dodge traffic to go buy a toy horse stable and carry it back because all they had was underground parking with a 6'7" clearance. If a door was left ajar and the inside light was left on, the battery would die in about an hour. It got 10 miles to the gallon. It died on the mountain trying to get up to Lake Sabrina and had to be taken down to a mechanic who didn't fix it and my son and I took 5 hours to get home because the thing would die every 15 minutes on the road and we would have to stop and let the engine cool before we could drive again. Turned out to be a dirty gas filter. Finally, as Camp Dan ended and every time something needed to be fixed it was $600.00 to $1,000.00 a pop, I sold it to a couple who wanted to use it for their daughter's girl scout troop. Hopefully, it is still out there somewhere hobbling along having fun. Getting ice cream cone spots on the ceiling and hiding week old Burger King leftovers in the compartment on the armrests in the very back.
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