The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van

Gravityloss•43 minutes ago

Interesting that they replaced the central panel with something more traditional looking?

bloomingeek•about 1 hour ago

Really cool story! It's always been my premise that good maintenance means longevity on vehicles. I keep our vehicles with the idea of "driving the wheels off of them", but always end up giving them to my kids after wanting an upgrade vehicle with some modern tech. (One of them has almost 200K miles on it.)

As for a Honda Element, I've always wanted one, but my wife thinks they're ugly. ;)

chiph•about 2 hours ago

"Runs and Drives" for $4300 is a bargain. All the other features were a bonus.

PaulHoule•about 1 hour ago

For a while my car buying strat was to buy a new Asian car and run it for 130,000 or more miles. In the pandemic though we had to get my son a car in a hurry so he could drive to work and new and gently used cars were hard to find so we discovered you can always get a pretty cool old car for that kind of money with the expectation that pretty soon you're going to spend about the purchase price in repairs; in our case it was just fine because once he had the job he had the money to pay for repairs himself and it is still a lot less than the payments on a new car.

mschuster91•about 2 hours ago

That paintjob reminds me somewhat of the GTA San Andreas campervan of The Truth.

jcgrillo•about 1 hour ago

Fleet vehicles are generally not a terrible bet, they've at least been somewhat maintained.

chasd00•about 2 hours ago

My kids call those “free candy vans” hah.

MrBuddyCasino•about 2 hours ago

I can’t find details about their bankruptcy except some platitudes. How does such a business suddenly go broke?

delichon•about 1 hour ago

  "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.
  "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually, then suddenly."
  -- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

mcphage•about 2 hours ago

Thanks for sharing that, that was just a nice story.

RickJWagner•34 minutes ago

I agree. Today has some very good stories on Hacker News, best day I can remember.

The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van

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