1986 LE
"The Tank"

Mods:

• New Rack and Pinion
• New Tires
• Changed Battery Setup

• My Site: www.illestculture.com

I got this Van as my first car approximatly a year ago when I got my license. It was my dad's van. He bought it brandnew in Dallas TX, in October 1985. Then in 1992 we eventually moved up to maryland. When he had just bought this van, he used to save it and not drive it alot, because business wasn't good. He used to drive his 1983 Corolla. So the van only had about 50,000 miles after 7 Years before we moved down here in Maryland. In Maryland while doing our Florist business where we would deliver flowers, he still used his Corolla most of the time when he did deliveries, he would use the van when we had a big Wedding Planned to haul alot of flowers. Eventually in 1997 the Corolla's Head gasket blue at 270,000 miles when it had very less coolant in the resevior. At this time, the van had around 80,000 miles and he started to use it every day, to do deliveries. That was the only car we had at the time, and then eventually after 2 months my dad bought a 1998 Lexus ES 300. He started to save the lexus and use the van alot. Then eventually all of our employees used this van when they would deliver flowers. Miles started Racking up and up on it. We even went to texas 3 times after moving here to Maryland in it, and there was no problems.

My dad started to let me use this van about a year ago. To drive it to school, and help do some deliveries at the florist. When I recieved it, it had 146,000, now currently it has 165,000 and climbing. When I got the van all of my friends used to make fun of it, until quickly they started to like it, because it can fit alot of people in it. Now fortunatly they love it. I have no complaints about this car, although I wish my dad would have chosen manual over automatic when buying, because Im trying to keep this car as long as possible, and Automatic seems to be getting in my way.