Nissan Urvan E23 9-Seat People Mover
#vacationwagon
All those classic V8 Woody wagons. All those 21st century 4wd Crossovers.
Nice.
when I went on vacation as a child, it was in the back of one of these next to vomiting sibling 4 & 5.
Powering this powerhouse was a OHV 4-cylinder of 2.0 litres, and maybe 90 PS (67 kW). With a loaded trailer behind, and most of its 9 seats occupied, this family hauler was not excited to do NSW Brown Mountain, made all the worse with fuel starvation from a clogged fuel filter, courtesy of some dodgy jerrycans and the fuel contained therein. We encountered this problem often enough that we modified the fuel lines to allow us to perform the filter change/clean from inside the vehicle through the engine hatch (see interior image with the front-centre seat tipped forward) rather than from underneath the car (in the rain/mud).
With so much car and so little engine, you wouldn't expect these to be fast (they weren't), but a max speed run (Schumack St) got much more km/h than I was expecting. A full-bore braking stop in the dark though, felt like the world was about to end/be very interesting, as the van pitched so much that everything went completely dark as the headlamps pointed down at the road immediately in front of me.
And this was the first car I ever drove.
Nissan Urvan E23 9-Seat People Mover
#vacationwagon
All those classic V8 Woody wagons. All those 21st century 4wd Crossovers.
Nice.
when I went on vacation as a child, it was in the back of one of these next to vomiting sibling 4 & 5.
Powering this powerhouse was a OHV 4-cylinder of 2.0 litres, and maybe 90 PS (67 kW). With a loaded trailer behind, and most of its 9 seats occupied, this family hauler was not excited to do NSW Brown Mountain, made all the worse with fuel starvation from a clogged fuel filter, courtesy of some dodgy jerrycans and the fuel contained therein. We encountered this problem often enough that we modified the fuel lines to allow us to perform the filter change/clean from inside the vehicle through the engine hatch (see interior image with the front-centre seat tipped forward) rather than from underneath the car (in the rain/mud).
With so much car and so little engine, you wouldn't expect these to be fast (they weren't), but a max speed run (Schumack St) got much more km/h than I was expecting. A full-bore braking stop in the dark though, felt like the world was about to end/be very interesting, as the van pitched so much that everything went completely dark as the headlamps pointed down at the road immediately in front of me.
And this was the first car I ever drove.