So, this is what happened to all the 90's Dodge vans.

[bigmoparjeff]

You need to watch at least the first minute of these videos.

 

[Pete Kaczmarski]

They will rust where the steering box mounts and cannot be repaired is what I was told by several owners.

 

[stubs300]

They will rust where the steering box mounts and cannot be repaired is what I was told by several owners.

Really? And all this time I thought that GM sweated the details?

 

[live4theking]

I would run a lot of vehicles on the track, but that is probably the last thing I would've thought to run.

 

[LeBaron1973]

Crazy Japanese- you'd think with all the skills these builders have they could repair anything.

 

[1970FuryConv]

I usually think of vans as work vehicles, waiting to go to the junkyard to be raided for parts.

 

[GJS]

That'd be one of my least favorite year "Dajiban".
But who am I to judge?

 

[Turboomni]

The room in these vans are often times bigger than apartments in Tokyo.

 

[detmatt]

Kool! I’m sending mine off to be modded now!

 

[bigmoparjeff]

In the first video he mentions that they originally were using the vans to haul race bikes to the track. Someone must have had the crazy idea to blast around the track in his van, and it all probably started from there.

My theory on "why Dodge": There are a few U.S. military bases in Japan, and I suspect the first vans may have been surplus military units, as the Navy used Dodge vans for decades.

Jeff