What's your favourite type of van? Mine would have to be the 1980 Ford Escort Sundowner panel van. Feel free to post your favourite with the hashtag #bringbackthepanelvan!

Updated: 09 Dec 2024

This particular example is tastefully modded with a turbocharged Ford 2 litre engine in it and has had a ground up restoration.

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the ford jaguar transit a.k.a jag xj220 mule

This one.

Not sure if this counts, but it is pretty awesome!

It’s gotta be the A-team van for me

This might be stupid, but my parents old 2001 Toyota Sienna. It was slow, it was somewhat comfortable (not really), it wasn’t the best looking, but it stuck with my family for about 10 years or so. I remember it was the first car I “drove” back when I was 13. All I did was move the car back and forward in our parking lot, not even touching the gas (it’s an automatic :l ), but I felt like a bad ass. My parents used it for their cleaning business, too. And my dad used it to get to and from work. Why was that job sort of special? It was my dads sponsor in the immigration process…. Thank God in 2013 my family because fully legal and got their licenses and everything. The 2001 Sienna to me is so special, honestly.

Thats an awesome story. Is the Sienna like the egg shaped one? We had one of those years ago, and my parents hung onto it when we upgraded. Called the tarago in Australia. I can’t find a pic but it was dearly loved (read flogged) by me and my brothers when we got our Licenses :)

Yeah it’s the egg shaped one lol. It was exactly like this one except it didn’t have the white things on the wheels (always forget what those are called damn it).