Your chance at a driveable piece of GRM memorabilia!

I'm selling my minivan

It contains microbes from everyone who's worked here for more than 15 years. It's ultimate stalker material.

jg

I am suddenly reminded of the TG episode wherd scientist test the vehicles for sanitary problems. See where this is going?

Why do you think I replaced the carpet?

jg

In reply to JG Pasterjak:

Because you watched top gear last night and thought we may want to transport livestock?

Wow, that's a good price.

DrBoost wrote: Wow, that's a good price.

It is. I'd like it to go to someone who understands what they're getting, both good and bad. I know the issue is fixable, it just needs someone with more desire than I have right now to fix it.

jg

roadhead /thread.

GRM: Not your typical office staff.

Someone needs to fly in, buy it, run it in the $2012 Challenge, then drive home. I mean, what could go wrong?

David

DWNSHFT wrote: Someone needs to fly in, buy it, run it in the $2012 Challenge, then drive home. I mean, what could go wrong? David

I'd laugh my ass off if it refused to start once at the Challenge, and then fired right up after it was over.

Osterkraut wrote:

DWNSHFT wrote: Someone needs to fly in, buy it, run it in the $2012 Challenge, then drive home. I mean, what could go wrong? David

I'd laugh my ass off if it refused to start once at the Challenge, and then fired right up after it was over.

That's probably how it would work.

And I'll vouch for this van. It's very vanny. I'm also sad to see it finally leave the family. Tim once wrote a column about it. How about the new owner will get a copy of that column--either the original magazine (if that issue is still available) or some kind of second-rate photocopy.

Funny, I seem to remember things about this van that made me surprised to read it was still "in the Suddard family", so to speak. Wasn't there a column/article that detailed how the A/C died and it was hugely expensive to take the instrument panel apart to try and fix the problem?

Still, I am looking for a "part time" hauler of sorts....when the van refuses to start, how long has it taken to get it to start? (Do you wait 5 minutes or 5 hours? And yes, I realize the problem is probably different each time.)

integraguy wrote: Funny, I seem to remember things about this van that made me surprised to read it was still "in the Suddard family", so to speak. Wasn't there a column/article that detailed how the A/C died and it was hugely expensive to take the instrument panel apart to try and fix the problem?

I don't believe that was us. Tim did write about how this van was like his first new purchase.

integraguy wrote: Funny, I seem to remember things about this van that made me surprised to read it was still "in the Suddard family", so to speak. Wasn't there a column/article that detailed how the A/C died and it was hugely expensive to take the instrument panel apart to try and fix the problem? Still, I am looking for a "part time" hauler of sorts....when the van refuses to start, how long has it taken to get it to start? (Do you wait 5 minutes or 5 hours? And yes, I realize the problem is probably different each time.)

I think it had a new evaporator put in it around 90k. It's never given us trouble.

As for the dying thing, yeah, it varies. Sometimes I'd go back in five minutes and it would fire right up. Sometimes I'd decide to drive a different car to work and when I got home it would fire up fine. I don't know if I had waited another 40 seconds it would have gone, of if it just fixed itself the moment I walked back up. It's clearly some sort of electrical connection that is intermittent.

jg

It needed the new carpet after ferrying around Katie.

Other than that.... It was an awesome van, and JG has been good to it. I think it's the nicest 20-year-old van in the world.