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Offline Carissima

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Big Families and Vans
« on: July 28, 2018, 12:06:27 PM »
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    • Here is an ad for a passenger van for sale. https://amarillo.craigslist.org/cto/d/2005-ford-e350-xl-extended-15/6653237007.html

    Anyone with, or from a big family will probably relate. I know I can haha. 
    If you have not experienced van driving with kids you are missing out.  :laugh1:

    Cheers to the family, they sound like they are a fun bunch :cheers:
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    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #1 on: July 28, 2018, 01:22:50 PM »
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    • My son refers to this kind of vehicle as a TAV.
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    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #2 on: July 28, 2018, 01:23:16 PM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on July 28, 2018, 01:22:50 PM
    My son refers to this kind of vehicle as a TAV.

    That would be a Trad Assault Vehicle.
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    Offline Maria Regina

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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #3 on: July 28, 2018, 01:24:48 PM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on July 28, 2018, 01:23:16 PM
    That would be a Trad Assault Vehicle.
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    Offline SeanJohnson

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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #4 on: July 28, 2018, 01:27:17 PM »
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    • Quote from: Carissima on July 28, 2018, 12:06:27 PM
    Here is an ad for a passenger van for sale. https://amarillo.craigslist.org/cto/d/2005-ford-e350-xl-extended-15/6653237007.html

    Anyone with, or from a big family will probably relate. I know I can haha.
    If you have not experienced van driving with kids you are missing out.  :laugh1:

    Cheers to the family, they sound like they are a fun bunch :cheers:
    Going to have to tell my wife to quit posting on Craigslist.
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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #5 on: July 28, 2018, 02:24:24 PM »
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    • Looks like a decent van for a decent price...

    But I have another style in mind to haul around my brood, let me know when you find an outfit like the one below...
    8)

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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #6 on: July 28, 2018, 03:59:22 PM »
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    • Quote from: Maria Regina on July 28, 2018, 01:24:48 PM
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    Mr. T.!  My all-time favorite!
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    Offline songbird

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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #7 on: July 28, 2018, 04:28:54 PM »
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    • When we were kids in our station wagon, our neighbor said, "When you wave to the Ellet family you get 18 hands waving back!
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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #8 on: July 29, 2018, 02:22:52 AM »
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    • Quote from: St Ignatius on July 28, 2018, 02:24:24 PM
    Looks like a decent van for a decent price...

    But I have another style in mind to haul around my brood, let me know when you find an outfit like the one below...
    8)

    This is small compared to what I rode around in when I was a child.
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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #9 on: July 29, 2018, 06:37:51 AM »
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    •  :laugh2:

    Love the van ad! 

    My husband's on the lookout for a stretch limo.  So we can roll up the dividing window when it gets bad back there.... 8)
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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #10 on: July 29, 2018, 08:23:51 AM »
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    • We just have a dodge caravan 7 seater right now, and with only 3 kids so far, so in a couple years when we outgrow that we're planning on just going straight for the 15 seater and filling it up!
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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #11 on: July 30, 2018, 06:01:32 PM »
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    • Did anyone on here grow up with a Country Squire station wagon?  Ours was yellow with fake wood panels, had seats for 10 + driver.  It had the third fold-out seat in back and my Dad made and installed two small seats on the floor.  He put in extra seat belts, so the front had room for three, middle, four, rear fold-out, two, plus two facing sides.  We piled luggage in a homemade roof pod that clamped onto the roof rack.  Obviously, this was the days before car seat laws.  Seat belts weren't even required, but Dad made us wear them because he'd been in the Navy medical corps and seen what happened to sailors who got tossed out of vehicles.  
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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #12 on: July 30, 2018, 10:35:15 PM »
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    • Quote from: Seraphina on July 30, 2018, 06:01:32 PM
    Did anyone on here grow up with a Country Squire station wagon?  Ours was yellow with fake wood panels, had seats for 10 + driver.  It had the third fold-out seat in back and my Dad made and installed two small seats on the floor.  He put in extra seat belts, so the front had room for three, middle, four, rear fold-out, two, plus two facing sides.  We piled luggage in a homemade roof pod that clamped onto the roof rack.  Obviously, this was the days before car seat laws.  Seat belts weren't even required, but Dad made us wear them because he'd been in the Navy medical corps and seen what happened to sailors who got tossed out of vehicles.  
    when I grew up for a time there was a station wagon. 
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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #13 on: July 31, 2018, 12:07:32 AM »
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    • Quote from: jvk on July 29, 2018, 06:37:51 AM
    :laugh2:

    Love the van ad!

    My husband's on the lookout for a stretch limo.  So we can roll up the dividing window when it gets bad back there.... 8)
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    Without auto locks, to park a vehicle like this you get to take a nice walk all around to open, lock and close each of the many doors.
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    Re: Big Families and Vans
    « Reply #14 on: July 31, 2018, 12:20:07 AM »
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    • Husband says this is my next car   :laugh2:

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