Anyone own a conversion van?

[Titan]

I'm thinking about buying a conversion van when I have the money for it in a couple years, but I don't know a lot about it. I think it would be cool to take a vacation driving around the country living out of the van. I'm in the market for used with around 100k, maybe about 10 years old, so like a 94 or newer.

After looking on ebay motors, it seems dodge, ford, gmc, and chevy all make them. Any imports? I definitely need a high-top, as I am tall, preferrably one with a good amount of overhead storgage.

Cany anyone offer their insight? Do they usually run well? etc...

Any info/opinion is appreciated.

 

[nakedfrog]

Have you looked into a 70s VW camper?

 

I used to really want one when I was a little kid, but I eventually realized that only hicks take their immediate families on road trips across the country in conversion vans.

 

[Titan]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Have you looked into a 70s VW camper?

when I was a kid playing on the farm where my dad worked, I knew a guy who lived out of a green VW camper. He was very good at carpentry and made a wooden VW front tire cover. He had a doberban-mix dog named murt with one blue eye and one brown.

^ translation: I don't wanna be that guy. I am a pretty big guy so VWs are too small for me any way. I'm wondering what the biggest one is without being an RV or a VW

 

[Titan]

Originally posted by: jumpr
I used to really want one when I was a little kid, but I eventually realized that only hicks take their immediate families on road trips across the country in conversion vans.

I won't take that as an insult. In fact, I wasn't thinking about taking any family along, just me. I figure it's cheaper than a hotel, and with gas prices what they are, it makes a lot of sense.

So you're saying no one at AT OT would know, everyone drives BMWs and Nissans here so I need to go find some hicktown forum and ask?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: tkotitan2

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Have you looked into a 70s VW camper?

when I was a kid playing on the farm where my dad worked, I knew a guy who lived out of a green VW camper. He was very good at carpentry and made a wooden VW front tire cover. He had a doberban-mix dog named murt with one blue eye and one brown.

^ translation: I don't wanna be that guy. I am a pretty big guy so VWs are too small for me any way. I'm wondering what the biggest one is without being an RV or a VW

Heh... owning one doesn't mean you have to live out of it. I'm 6'2ish, not too small for me. But if they don't float your boat, that's cool. I don't really have anything to say about the conversion vans.