2001 Chevrolet Express Van 1500: Regular Car Reviews
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The Chevy Express Van:
The official road trip vehicle for mormon families
And ferrying the Amish to WalMart
This is so accurate it’s frightening
Fuck I'm in SLC Right now and that hits hard
I wanted to like this comment but.....69 likes.
@TCL The driver isn't Amish but I've seen it all the time.
Oh my God, that commercial. I haven’t laughed that hard during an RCR ever, and I watch these because I chuckle every week. I love you guys.
Hardest I ever laughed was his speaker commercial when he ‘split that sound log’ and fell on the floor in slow motion. Hilarious
I remember when RCR first started making videos and all of his videos were this funny. The Lincoln Towncar video is still one of my all time favs
@@sirbenjaminarthuriv4019 It's a shame that he took the the Dodge Avenger video down from his channel. I understand why he did it but that was peak RCR in my opinion.
FUCK YOU, BALTIMORE
I liked his 1984 Ford F 250 Explorer video with the Rinaldi & Kline ad. "You wanna hole? We'll dig ya a hole. What goes into it? Ay, dat's up ta you."
My dad drove a van like this around for 30+ years as a mobile mechanic. He was able to accumulate enough money to retire in a large house on the panhandle and buy a couple cars that he had always wanted. He said he could’ve bought a garage and expanded his business but there was something about riding it alone, that gave him a sense of peace. You described him perfectly in the last quarter of the video.
What was the two cars that he bought?
@@kylesoler4139 two more express vans
@@RestrictedHades XD
When this pulls in my driveway, I know the compressor is getting fixed and I'm keeping the pink copy of the receipt.
Why is this so accurate?
theres probably black oily fingerprints on that pink paper too
Forgot the 4l60 probably shot
@andrewjarvis5814 he's got two forward gears that's enough 😊
Chevy Express van, the official car of: "let me get a meat lover's pizza, 16' with a 2 liter coke"
It's the "I'll have my 'usual" of car
When he said the line about the pizza and a Fanta "for fruit", I felt that....
Dang 16 feet?
@@RUSTYCHEVYTRUCK dude's hungry
@@RUSTYCHEVYTRUCK I would TEAR me UP a 16 foot pizza, my god...
Chevrolet Express van: The official van of the underdog business. Not the flashy expensive advertising business and not the throat slicing razor thin profit margin of over seas labor.
exactly.
fact
@Nancy Pelosi are you sure it wasn't a setup snowflake?
@Nancy Pelosi oh boy looks like you used some big words. I would have shared with your friend Joe Biden but I don't think he would've understood it. Ironic when you call someone a snowflake when you responded to their comment that wasn't even related to politics.
When the contractor shows up in a rusty dodge/ Chrysler caravan you know he’s never finishing the job. When he shows up in express van you know it’s good
Chevy Express Van: the official vehicle of gas station breakfast.
Oh this one is accurate
This has to be the most accurate comment lmao 😂
Oh boy, you are right
"Niether does this badge that says LS mean LS."
good old chevy
That Vortec 350" is actually a hot engine... and pistons plus cam bumps it to 425 HP for $350 in parts... (plus injection and exhaust mods...)
@@BuzzLOLOL people keep forgetting that the 350 engine as well as the 305 in the six cylinder, we're pretty good reliable actually a lot more reliable than the ls car-based Motors the Rev so high.
@@joelsullivan3614 - Base level/truck LSx engines don't rev that high, just make more power by better port, cam, and combustion chamber design and higher compression ratio...
This reminds me again that there's so many small businesses that rely on beat-up old vans or trucks to put food on the table. I see worn out vans like this rolling around all the time. Some have business decals on the side, others are just a solid color. I gotta respect 'em. They're invaluable to a lot of people.
Amen to that!
As a future small business owner, who drives a 25-year-old pickup with peeling paint, these vehicles deserve respect. They're the automotive equivalent of the thirty-year-old work-horse. My small pickup is not flashy or new, but it is experienced, reliable, and still going strong at over 210,000 miles.
@@matthewkoch6937 and best of all, when small business owners finally can afford that nice new vehicle, that 200,000 mile, faded paint, torn upholstery, pickup gets sold to me, a college student living off of 10/hr, for the fair price of $2000 cash. This country would have no future without the dedication of people like you, and I thank you for that. Without this 1989 Ford Ranger my mom would still be driving me to work.
@@notgray88 funny you say that because I put food on our table for years out of an 89 ranger. I paid a grand for it, put a service cap on it for another 1500 and bought new wheels and tires for it and it really looked pretty presentable for a cheap vehicle. That is the only bad thing with these old vehicles. People do tend to judge you based on them. It didn’t matter much in my case and my truck looked fine but there’s an electrician around town, or was, that drove the biggest heap of an old conversion van with a shitty hand painted sign on it and I suspect he wasn’t getting the same hourly rate or amount of calls as this other guy who buys new vans every year or two and has them fully wrapped with custom wheels.
I would totally wanna get one of these vans or them old pickups that last long af
"The Elder Scrolls 350" lol
Chevrolet Express van: The official van of "I'm not buying a bulkhead. I don't care if everything in the back turns into projectiles if i'm in an accident."
Dude should really swap a skilled welder for some carpentry work.
Took a 13" TV to the back of the head in my gmc Safari. Wife put it on top of a bureau and I didn't know about it. Good times.
@@handlesRdumb that's your own fault for not checking the load before driving
@@Drewsky840 nobody said it wasn't
As someone who letters commercial vehicles, I *LOVE* when the customer says "It's an Express Van". Sure it's ancient, but they are the only vehicle left with horizontal/level body lines to measure from. The Ford & Dodge vans have whacked out body lines that'll make us say, "Fuck it, I'm eyeballing it."
Aaahaaa. That's why all these promasters and ford transit get the slanted 30° decals on the sides. Lol
@@sebastiencharette6637 Now you know!
I’m in love with that “Tool Chest.” That’s some real “making it work” type stuff there. And the whole thing about the $10 radio was on point. No luxury here, just a simple van that works hard for the man who works harder.
he did a lot of other interesting stuff too with the interior, like tools stored between the headliner and plastic pillar trim. very nice use of all the space
I just bought this van and the original comment made me lol
I see Kunkleman's is now under the umbrella of the Bill Hell Automotive Group.
Do they still do challenge pissing?😶
I hear they changed the piss height requirement from 6 to 8 feet though...
Eric Oliver Damn, they changed it
Next commercial is gonna start with “Fuck you Harrisburg!!”
Bring your title, bring your trade, bring your wife.
No, just the wife fucking.
The official car of the "I"M GETTIN THE QUADRUPLE BYPASS TOMORROW SO I MIGHT AS WELL FILL UP NOW!"
My dad passed away some time ago, he had a 2001 Chevy Express 3500 with the 6.5L diesel, before that an E150 extended. His work vans not only defined him and his work as a general contractor, but they defined my childhood. Both where panel vans, no windows, but he had a bench seat out of a passenger van fitted for my brother and I. We went camping with those vans, visited friends with them, went grocery shopping with them. They where as much a part of our lives as the house we lived in. I remember I cried when the E150 was written off by a driver that fell asleep and side swiped it in his big SUV, it was a part of the family, and so became the Express 3500 that replaced it.
When he passed his brother kept the van, and I still saw it parked in the driveway for a long time. I haven't been by that house in years, but I bet it's still there even. I've thought about asking about it, but I couldn't drive it anyway, there's to many memories tied to it.
Never stop the parody commercials. You are onto something with these. I laughed my ass of at the last two.
Ronaldi and Kline! you wanna hole, we'll dig ya a hole. What you do with it is uh, your business.
If you gotta write a check make it out to my sista!
Yeah I love these
-Rinaldi & Kline!
-Rinaldi & Kline!
-Eh, eh! We got a van!
-We got a van!
(The van is a 2001 Chevy Express 1500)
Ah the rolling probable cause.
I feel like rolling probable cause used to be the Buick LeSabre/Century - now it's definitely Chargers.
underrated
For the Cast-iron-skillet of a man: hardened and dignified by routine
I’m 41, my van is 18 and yes, we both have to work everyday to keep a family fed. It pays off.
Barely legal, buddy.
4:07 " I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones..."
At kitty hawk in 1903 Charles Lindbergh flew it fifteen miles on a thimble full of corn oil, singlehandedly won us the civil war, it did!
We tied a "No Fear" wallet to our belt with a chain. Which was the style at the time.
Glad I wasn’t the only one who caught that reference. Lol
I can hear Grandpa reading this!!😆
"We always had walking bird with all the trimmings: creamed corn, injun eyes, and yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we all watched football, which in those days was called baseball."
what the heck no more monday mornings, this epic
He schedules releases for midnight EST Monday morning
Monday morning for India lol. For the 10 Indians who watch him
@@hardbodybrain lol tell me about it.
Richard Wakefield Then how come we’re used to getting the notification at about 4 AM EST? Is this a new upload time?
@@richardwakefield5902 oooooooooo
This was facelifted in 2003, and has been built for 17 years straight since with virtually no additional changes
Yep. Just different engines and transmissions and the mandatory back up cam. Blind spot also an option 😂
Andrew Duong no the 2007 got an steering wheel, cluster, and chime change
@@aidenthecomputernerd Well except for those. And I don't know since when, but on the newer ones the lower trim levels look closer to the higher ones, but the chrome bits are plastic.
Interior got a slight refresh sometime around 2012, and I believe that 2019 ended the reign of sealed beam headlights. I’m not sure of those years though. Just educated guesses.
more of a rework. they made some changes to the body structure and lengthened the front end for the new LS engines. 08 they revised the interior again and you could get side curtains. But yeah, they're still stamping the same sheet metal engineered in 03, it's crazy.
Thanks for mentioning Australia and our love of the Toyota Hiace 😊
You would not believe this but my father took us right around Australia (in the outback) towing a 15" caravan with a 1978 Hiace. It crossed crocodile-infested rivers without bridges. All he did was put a bullbar, extractors and 8 ply tyres on it. 3000km and the only thing that went wrong was a blown headlight!
Sorry for the long story...
The official car of that kid in your Boy Scout Troop’s dad who has 7 children and always gets worked into going to the campouts because of his van.
This is scarily accurate.
Very accurate, I was in Kiwanis(Christian Scouts) as a kid in the early - mid 90's, and our group leader had a Chevy Express Passenger van, 5 kids, and a nagging fat wife. 😂
I had at least 5 parents in my scout troop who drove 7 and 8 passenger vans but the one family that had 6 kids had a 5 passenger van and a crew cab pickup.
That is the reason to not have a minibus if you really don't have to. I knew two kids whose familiea were big and they had those old taxi VW Transporters with plush interior, different front grille and fancy side stripes. The vans were always in the football matches/class trips/scout camps...
So accurate, but our troop leader had a grey Dodge passenger van, think of the one that almost ran over Kevin McCallister. So many trips in that van to camp outs, canoe expeditions, and Cumberland caverns. I felt bad for that kid in our troop, cause his dad was a total asshole wife beater, which is why he had a Dodge instead of a Chevy. Only assholes drive Dodge trucks lol
Kunkleman Chevrolet ad is the new Big Bill Hell's Used Cars ad and I love it.
Big Bill Hell's Used Cars is still better, but this was a good attempt.
*FUCK YOU BALTIMORE*
aries IF YOU’RE DUMB ENOUGH TO BUY A CAR THIS WEEKEND, YOU’RE A DUMB ENOUGH SCHMUCK TO COME TO BIG BILL HELL’S CARS!!
what other reviews has kunkleman appeared in? I know I've heard it before but i can't find where
Home of CHALLENGE PISSING.
Chevy Express Passenger, the official van of: “Wife’s pregnant again. Yup, baby number six.”
When your family hauler is an Express 1500, you have a big family.
When your family hauler is an Express *3500* , you're the reason we still need Roe V. Wade.
The only 90’s vehicle still on sale in America.
To be fair, I bought my '96 Dodge Ram only a year ago. Some of these trucks and vans last forever....
I love how these vans look pretty much the same since their debut.
Yep all they did was change the dash a wee bit and the update the nose a little bit of course now it has that new 6.6 l V8 from the heavy duty center should be a rocket
My crown vic disagrees lol
Thats what makes it reliable
Welp theres the feels trip.
My grandpa was the hardest working man I ever met. He had a light duty 99' 2500 express with the 305 vortec. When he went downhill and retired and couldn't drive anymore, I emptied it out and sold it for him
(315k original miles)
I think it's still being driven around somewhere.
I miss you gramps.
I saw that van. It was in the back lot of KUNKELMAN.
You got me there
I see RCR has been taught by the Jay Leno’s Garage school of late night TH-cam uploads.
He out Leno'd Leno!
Yeaa that was really stupid.
Leno is on Californee time, RCR wakes up in PA after noon and pass out just before dawn.
Cinema sins reference?
When you hire someone to do work and an ancient, rusted out beat up van like this pulls up, you know for damn sure you're getting the job done well in a timely manner.
My immigrant grandparents had one of these as their last work van. Janitorial service for offices.
I still remember getting rides home as a kid in that van. My grandfather driving 10mph under the speed limit and my grandmother diligently keeping me secured in her lap.
Childhood memories of when hard work and an honest life would lead to the american dream.
"Every van can be a work van."
I know someone's dad who got a first gen Fit with a stick and in black (Not unlike Sally) and loaded it up with tools in the back and uses it as he work "van".
My dad used a 1998 Ford Escort Zx2 as his work vehicle for a couple years, using it to haul tools and bandsaws and whatever else he needed to haul in it
That Zx2 was supposed to become mine but I can't drive stick so I ended up with the 2006 Scion xB that he started using as a work vehicle instead and he bought a 2000 GMC Savana 3500
My neighbor was a landscaper and drove a Pontiac Montana full of landscaper crap everyday!
My brother was that guy with the Odyssey as his work van. He drove delivery routes in two generations of them and still just loves them, transmission replacements and all.
my dad used a Peugeot 306 automatic as his work "van" for almost 10 years and before then it had been our family car since almost new, that thing served us well. now he's using the family Skoda Yeti until he retires
My 4 door Yaris makes a passable work van with the seats folded down, and I can haul long things (ladder, lumber, etc) on the roof rack. Only thing is that it only gets 24 mpg if I have 400 lbs of tools and material in it. And I can't move more than a few hundred lbs of cement at a time. I probably should buy a real van.
"Any van can be a work van"
One of the electricians that I work with uses an early 2000s Toyota Sienna as a work van.
Not a bad choice, good gas milage, and reliable.
Back in my painter days, the boss had a Ram truck (plus trailer if needed) for big jobs, and a Subaru Legacy wagon with a roof rack for everything else, because 30 MPG beats the crap out of 9.
I know an electrician that uses a Scion TC as his work vehicle.
@@480JD yup, and he really doesn't have a reason to drive anything bigger. It has a roof rack for the one extention ladder that he uses, and everything else fits in the back just fine when the seats are folded down.
@@krabgrass Yup, got a friend who's in the special effect business. Think "setting up haunted houses." He hauls around all kinds of stuff in the back of his TC - I once lent him my MIG welding rig, complete with large gas canisters, and it went back there just fine (along with the other junk he was carrying)
"Is this vOrE?" freaking sent me man 😂
The official van of "I could rent a room, but I rather live in a van."
haha nice that's exactly what I did. renters would envy my bank account.
As the son of a man who's livelihood for 20+ years was held aloft on a passenger van hauling a business to and fro, this speaks to me. I miss the '87 and '91 Econoline 150's that got the job done.
with 75% market share econolines were the backbone of america, chevy and dodge just couldn't hang.
Now, THOSE were vans! Econoline all the way!
They still make the Econoline, but only as a cutaway cab. The Transit isn't bad, though. It's probably more customizable and comfortable than the E-series, and also cheaper to own because it's more aerodynamic (which means spending less at the pump) and not exclusive to North America, so parts are a *lot* more widespread and cheaper.
@@Park_Place
Yeah, but what if you want the traditional club wagon or cargo Econoline? Now, if you want a new Econoline, you just get the cab and frame, unless you want the moving van or bus body on it. And, most people who buy a work van are little more concerned with it ability to pull and haul. Personally, while I accept the Transit's place in history, I just can't see being as rugged and have the North American vans. I'm not saying they aren't, I just don't see it. Case in point: I travel a lot. It used to be very common to see an 18 passenger Econoline, Chevy (GM had several different fun size van models), or a Ram pulling a large utility trailer or a piece of equipment behind it. I rarely, if ever, see any of these European based vans doing that. But, that's the beauty of those old vans; they're basic, simple, no bells or whistles, just a capable truck (legally, what we call a van is really know as a panel truck) that can do everything we need.
I grew up driven around in an 87’ econoline and my first car was an 85 econoline that cost me a set of brake lines and spark plugs. So much rust I painted it rustoleum brown with a roller.
"this tie an onion on your belt engine"
perfect.
my favourite line. had to google to see if it's in anything other than the simpsons. and for what it's worth, RCR is the simpsons of car reviews and that's a high statement because seasons 1-10 are basically what raised me as a child.
@@Mattyew ok boomer
I do understand it was the style at the time.
@@Maker277 It's what you wear when you're taking the ferry to Shelbyville.
Back then nickels had pictures of bees on ‘em. “Five bees for a quarter!” we’d say
I love old Chevy vans from the early 2000s. The seats were so soft and the seating position was upright and ergonomic. I could drive one for hours on end.
I love old Chevy vans from the early 2000s. The seats were so soft and the seating position was upright and ergonomic. I could drive one for hours on end.
I have drove mine from Miami to Tennessee and back. And it was very comfortable.
Chevy express van: the van that hasn’t changed since it was created
Very true
Kunkelman Chevrolet license plate frames that look like the ones that come on dealership cars. Could be 3d printed.
It would feel more rcr if they were just sheared outh of scrap metal/plastic & finger painted lol
If you design one on Zazzle (or other site) let us know. I am suprised Mr Regular isn't making a killing on Merch for Kunkelman at this point. I would buy this stuff up. I might even want to buy a car from them.
@@mnewberg I superchatted about this a few livestreams ago, and blame Roman's "lazyness." It's basically being pushed aside due to other things.
The official car of Cadillac badges and fake chrome. And ugly pin-striping, and body kits, with blinds in the windows. And a BROWN interior.
Edit: I forgot about the crt hanging from the ceiling in the back
Only Chevy van I've seen Cadillac badging taped onto was a Chevy Venture
Brown? You mean dark orange?
I’ve never seen a Cadillac badge on one of these. I’ve never even seen a fake Cadillac badge
BBRROOOOOOOOOWWWWWN
I've seen Astros with Escalade front clips chopped up to fit. It's horrendous.
one of the other uses for these types of vans, the one that I've used them for, is hauling a bunch of geology students across the country to Wyoming and trucking them up and down sketchy washboarded BLM land oilfield roads so that they can learn how to map rocks. These vans are tough as shit, and they make the best/worst noises when you're in the L gear creeping down a crazy steep 4000 ft. mountain pass at like 15 mph loaded up with students, gear, and more rocks than you really want to think about.
Haha holy shit I studied forestry for a brief minute, went on loads of field trips down what you could generously call "roads" in express vans. They're insanely durable.
Kunkleman Chevrolet: Our markups are so high that we have a Cadillac Sign for our Chevy Dealership!
You guys need to review the Astro van!
Yesssss had a 1995, had a EGR valve that was getting stuck and it killed the engine as I was getting off the highway. Sailed right through an intersection wheeeeeeeeee
Yes please!
I just discovered this channel a few weeks ago, dug thru their archives, now imma fan
But the other day I was looking to see if they covered the Astro Van
They already did
@@jefferyepstein9210 nope, searched on their channel, no results. Donut Media is the only major channel that did a review of it.
"There's no LS in the Champaign Van"
I understood that reference :)
Chris Rock?
Hey, fellow '90s kids!
So glad I’m not the only one here that’s close to 40 years old haha
No matter what a stripper tells you...
@@junyangli8882 look up "No sex in the champagne room"
You're welcome
I love how a every europeam van has a 2 litre 4 cylinder while this thing has a 5.7l v8 and is just sloghtly more powerful
pull a 6000 kilo trailer in the mountains see who is faster wink wink
Specific output is a pissing contest
At least the 2 litre isn’t a stone age ancient engine
@@potatoes5829 At least the 5.7l actually MOVES when the damn thing is loaded! I drove radio vans for a summer. They had a couple of old ford vans that, if I remember correctly, had the 5 liter V8. They also had a brand new Nissan thing with a four cylinder. Guess which ones I felt safer in while attempting to merge while fully loaded down with radio gear? (Hint: it wasn't the Nissan!) Sometimes, there really is no replacement for displacement!
@@ryano.5149 my vw transporter is filled to the brim most days with pipes, and a fuck ton of tools and gas boilers, its a plumbers van, atleast a ton and a half of tools and shelving, it can still move nice, and good, and is very very good on diesel. I have No doubt i van fit a trailer on and fill it up with whatever shit you want and it will pull it no problem.
Plus, from my experience I drove a Nissan van / opel and it was the worst thing I ever drove, almost as bad as a transit connect.
Chevy Express. Official van of "Yeah, in the ad I said I had the title but...."
Kunkleman Chevrolet! We've got used rav 4s out back!
I'd buy something from them, they sound like they know good business :|
they really don't make RAV4s like they used to. The new ones don't qualify as offroad vehicles at all. My dad drove a 1998 RAV4 until the wheels literally fell off and it was totalled.
Ah the official van of going 10mph under the speed limit and still brakes when it sees a cop.
In the _left lane_ too
I rented one of these one time to haul some furniture. It felt like a 10 ton iron slab on wheels made of marshmallows.
Ah, so similar to my father's land-barge 1998 Suburban? That car was a bright red tank of a work vehicle....
So you had the "sport tuned" version. ( Im kidding calm down youtube).
"His favorite line..."
Simultaneously shows video of brake line.
I know a guy at work who has like 23 kids. He had this when I started 20 years ago. Still has it. It won't die.
Damn how many wives?
@@boygenius538_8 just the 1.... Was exaggerating. Think the kid count is 10.
Dave's Commonplace Book
His pull out game is weak
Jeffery Epstein nah he just wanted to be evolutionarily successful
Chevy Express Van, because someday you'll realize that your dad wanted to be millionaire rockstar too before he accepted reality.
My grandfather still has this truck. 400,000 miles. Painted for years. Painted SKYPAC, The National Corvette Museum, and tons of other places. It's still to this day his work/paint van
"The important thing is, I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time." -- Grandpa Simpson.
The official vehicle of a family that just didn’t stop producing more and more and more kids
Also known as Mormon assault vehicles
The theoretical Quiver of the Quiverfulls.
Sleep: Broke
Mr. Regular covering a Chevy Van: Woke
Get woke, go broke
Laughs in PST
Ok doomer
@@iHaveTheDocuments Libleft's mantra
@@trevorcollum6883 Girlfriend: Gone
2001 Chevrolet Express Van 1500: Always here for me and you and 4 extra passengers
The official car of people with business names of “We fix Garage Doors” that you’ll find dumped in the back of a Walmart parking lot
Chevy Express van: the official van of 'I've got killer gear in the back that I gotta offload for super cheap, you interested?'
This brought back a lot of memories for me. When I was a kid, we had one of these that was also an LS. It had vinyl seats, vinyl floors, manual windows but for some reason had power locks (?) and a 305 under the hood. It was gutless but it ran good and we drove it from Texas to Arizona with no issues. They're good vans and the fact that this one in particular has 258,000 miles (which are probably original) doesn't surprise me in the least. I bet it would make it to 300,000 no problem, 350s are known for that
How many siblings you have
4
New upload time! Cool!
that's very unexpected
"Sometimes the trash puts out itself" is such a truly beautiful sentence
That chassis looks pretty good for an 01 in the rust belt. I love the Vortec family of engines. Other than having to change the factory intake gaskets at around 150k miles and change the fuel pump every 10 or 15 years they are fantastic reliable high mileage engines. My Dad and I towed a 4 place sled trailer with his 98 C2500 with 275k miles from CT to Northern Quebec without a problem. It wasn't fast but it got the job done.
I'm still cracked with that 24 yo mistress, but you summed up a personality that i never understood. Since being a reasonable boy i was surrended by this type of men, and never catch their drift, always thinking they were work dogs alienated by the system. And now i can feel them, they put their pants on and try to turn around things day by day. They seem more revolutionary than most artist, they don't criticize, they just live and work. And more and more, i feel like thanks to them we're the spoiled generation, who knows, who are more educated and have opportunities to choose. Thanks to his hands, thanks to his mind, I can choose. I don't think you're watching, but thanks dad! And thanks RCR to made me realize this, jokes aside, you show car by car a different reality, teaching respect (or not) beyond preconception.
TRS Garage : Dad was an auctioneer.. He used to say that everyday he woke up unemployed.
Very nice to see this vid while pulling the motor on my dads '05 express. These plain vans mean a lot to me as they've put me through many years of my life. The under appreciated workhorse
Blew a tire going 75 fully loaded in an express. That was fun.
These videos truly are a work of art, your writing fills me with emotion and appreciation. Thank you.
Chevy Express, perfect for living in down by the river.
And there is nothing wrong with that.
6:40 Ah, I see Pennsylvania has its own version of Big Bill Hell’s Automotive.
I assumed they were affiliated with Big Bill Hell's.
Fuck you Baltimore
Chevy Express Van: the official vehicle of “back in my day, we had this and that”
Sounds like I need to go to Kunkleman Chevrolet.
Chris Random : Sounds like they’re coming for you!
Something about the front end of the van along with C/Ks of the same era have a nice vibe to it but I don't know what.
Very clean and well proportioned.
The Escalade wore it best, but none of them looked bad.
Yeah, I think like Ben said, clean and nicely proportioned. Plus I feel like they're not trying to be extremely showy or look super aggressive like every single newer vehicle. To me, it's a look that says "Humble and reliable" rather than "Look at me!!!!".
OH HE WAS SO CORRECT WITH THE JOBSITE RADIO! No one actually buys a jobsite radio unless you really like one or its on sale. Plus, those shit box CD players have the good juju
That was so true. Why pay good money for something that's going to get beat to hell? It's not as if you're going to get great sound quality on a job site no matter what it is.
The guys I work with now hang those little beercan-shaped JBL bluetooth speakers from their tool belts. So it's just a big ol cacophony of nu-metal and mumble rap.
There's a DeWalt work radio owner in my family that fit part of that description of primer dust and sawdust, but when it went kaput it ended up getting replaced with another DeWalt. That was $100 to create a similar looking radio, just with a working power knob.
Not here in NZ. Everyone has a makita radio
I always thought the big draw of those job site radios was you can run them off the same rechargeable batteries as the rest of your tools so you eventually make your money back in all the D cells you haven't had to buy for the cash converters boom box.
A taxi and shuttle company I drove for had two 2005 Express vans. They were 3500s with the 6.0 LS. One had a pretty good exhaust leak, so it sounded pretty good when you put your foot in it.
The other van would death wobble if you hit pretty much any bump. By the time I was ready to quit that job, I'd tell alarmed passengers that, "we'll be okay as long as the tie rods don't snap." I wonder how much business my boss lost because of me...
There's just something amazing about your guys' videos. I can never understand why I just love them!
The important thing was I had an onion on my belt; which was the style at the time, They didn't have white onions, BECAUSE OF THE WAR
It all started back in nineteen dickety two, we had to say dickety because the kaiser had stolen the word twenty, I chased that rascal to get it back but gave up after dickety six miles!
NOTHING BAD EVER HAPPENS TO THE KENNEDYS
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Holy crap Regular, was this at Lindenfield park? I used to live not even a five minute bike ride from there and used to play soccer there growing up. You also drove through Chalfont?! I can't even tell you how happy I am to see where I grew up in a car review, thank you so much Mr. Regular you just made my week! :)
That is seriously one of your best and most hysterical videos. You knocked it out of the park.
As somebody who drives one of these, i am so happy this video exists
Edit: by the way
My grandad has 3 of those
One blue 1996 Chevy Express conversion van that has all the seats removed
One White 2001 GMC savanna pannel van
One 2006 GMC savanna which has the ever holy LS
Funny thing is the Chevy express
My grandad got is extremly cheap, it has a V6 its a 1500 and it normaly tows 3000 pounds worth of watermelom trailer
Watermelom
You should have seen the hell we put my grandpa's 2500 light duty through.. Pulled 10k lbs multiple times. It had 3500lbs of tools and equipment and parts in the back (he was an electrician)
When we sold it it had 315k original miles
@@MangoVisionn im not used to this phones keyboard lol
@@MangoVisionn materwelon
My dad has the massive ass 2000 GMC Savana 3500 with the Diesel
It's a total pile of fucking dogshit and barely runs
And if my manager is a middle-aged single woman who only hires the ladies?
Doesn't mean she can't have a mistress
Then if you want a raise/promotion I guess it's time to get busy pleasing her.....in the bedroom.
Subaru Forester
land rover
The Kunkleman Chevrolet ad is the 21st century version of Big Bill Hell’s cars!
Van: Starts up
Gas Gauge: AAAAAAAAAAAA Okay we good
My favorite part of monda- oh well, my sunday night just got a whole lot better anyways
gonna call it. this is the best video ive seen since the dodge avenger review years ago.
GRAND COUNCILOR V A R M O N
RHUBARB!!!!
This is one of my favorite episodes. So real, so regular, so American.
Sounds like "A decorative cookie tin filled with buttons and sewing needles" ...This is why I watch this cannel. Love it
Just get in the van...
Hey Bob.
Damn the last time I was this early I made my girlfriend cry
Body on frame, Big V8 engine, strong reliable design. You can't beat this
I bought a 2001 Ford E150 working in New York (would love to let you drive it) at 21 years old. I’m 23 now, we’re a few weeks shy of two years with her. It’s moved me from Alabama to Georgia, been my home on tour with my band, came up to Philly with me for nothing more than fun this year (COVID crisis makes off days very boring for traveling workers these days) I don’t use it as a work van except in the sense that my band tours with it but it has become such an integral part of my friend group, life, identity really. It’s the most reliable vehicle I have ever owned and it’s been there for me more than any other material item I think I’ve ever owned. I love big momma.
Once you’ve owned a van and loved a van another car will never be the same. When I’m home now I daily an 07 Volvo S40 and I love it in a very different way. Nothing will ever replace big momma. Keep loving vans, van dads.
My dad used a 1998 Ford Escort Zx2 as his work vehicle for a couple years, using it to haul tools and bandsaws and whatever else he needed to haul in it
That Zx2 was supposed to become mine but I can't drive stick so I ended up with the 2006 Scion xB that he had started using as a work vehicle instead because he bought a Savana
*haven't learned how to drive a stick, yet.
Nobody knows how to drive a manual, until they learn. You should learn.
Great video guys!
But you missed some of the coolest oddball things about these vans
The rear doors can open a full 180° to allow it to back right up to a loading dock
It had the largest magnesium casting in a vehicle behind the dash, helping to reduce body flex, and these were one of the best selling vehicles GM ever had (but was still quite a ways back from the amount of Econoline vans that Ford sold)
Oh and the Vortec insignia does make quite a bit of difference. It refers to the cylinder heads (GM did this to all its V8 and the 4.3 V6 in the 90s)
Vortec heads are a much better flowing head than the regular heads on these engines.
For example the 350 gained 50 HP with the Vortec heads
The 454 (7.5L) big block was the last of the old school engines to be fitted with Vortec heads and pushed it to 290 HP, and that was I believe 1996 if memory serves me right lol.
GM kept using the Vortec nomenclature for years and used them on the LS based engines, but at the point it was nothing more than just a name.
(Haha yeah I have faaar too much general knowledge of 90s vehicle lol)
You nailed it. Same color, same year, same interior, same broken side-door handle. It's the very van I spent my formative years loading furniture in and out of for my dad's one-man antique business. It's the van we took on family road trips, and took to Home Depot for gardening supplies. It paid the mortgage, and paid my tuition.
At 20 years old and 240,000mi, it burns oil like a 2-stroke, the AC hasn't worked in a decade, and the vent controls are stuck on "defrost". The old man was going to scrap the van when he retired, but I gave him a grand for it... Sometimes you just need a clapped-out van to do a job. That's what an Express is for.
My father is a semi-retired upholsterer that has his own business. He's owned 3 vans. A 76 Dodge Tradesman, an 87 GMC Vandura, and a 99 Chevy express, and the express is a former passenger van with the rear two benches removed. He left the first bench seat in because it sometimes did double duty as a family vehicle/towing a camper.
This story hits home, even the bit about the thrift store radio. Dad needed a new stereo for his workshop, so I put one together for him out of parts from the thrift shop, $20.
I can already tell this is gonna be a great week.
Finally I'm early for a car review
That minute monologue from 9-10 is a gem and one of the reasons I keep watching
I work for Carlisle Events, saw your Corvettes at Carlisle review from 2014, and instantly became a big fan of your work. This video multiplies that fandom. Subcsribed!