"It's not that the PO's wife didn't like the van (she love it, I think).
It's that they got stuck one too many times by the side of the road, wallet
out."

Oh, I forgot about that.  To be fair, I have to say that both of our
vanagons have Subaru engines. Before Betsy was a vanaru, I would never even
take the kids to a drive-thru window because I was always staring at the
blasted blinking coolant light.  And I never strayed beyond a reasonable
towing distance.

It's been several years since her transplant surgery.  Thanks to my gifted
and talented hubby, I've come to take her reliability for granted.  My bad.

Sandy