Got this thing so cheap, it costs more to fill it up than what I paid for it!


It's a 1991 E250 fully loaded Club Wagon, 7.3L Diesel, E4OD with 3.54 gears. Power windows, locks, cruise, tilt, AC and captain chairs! And has all it's 3 rows of seats for the back.


Bought it from the original 78 year old owner, who is from out west in Alberta. He bought the van brand new in Alberta, ran the van there for about 10 years, then he moved down to Arizona and lived there for 9 years, and been here in Ontario for 3 years with it, and it's been sitting for a year.


It doesn't run, it looses prime, witch is a simple fix, but he just wanted it out of his driveway.


Looking through all the original paper work that came with it (love 1 owner vehicles) I found a receipt for a transmission rebuilt that was done at Aastro Transmission in Tucson AZ in Dec. 2005 at the tune of 3185$. The van has 225k miles on it, and the tranny was done 44k miles ago! Score!


Enough chit chat, here she is! Pretty nice shape to! Original paint! The frame, and underbody of it look brand new, but the rockers are getting soft in some places.

It's the exact opposite from my van, mine has mint rockers, but rotted floors!

Towed it home 80 miles with a tow bar attached to the frame horns. Took the bumper off.

 

Nice find .......would it have the C-6 as well?

 

nice find! if you can live with all those windows back there, you'll surely save a bit on fuel with the 3.54s and e4od

 

So the War Wagon has a prettier step sister now huh?

Looks nice from here---needs a good cleaning though maybe?

And for those of us not familiar what what a tank of diesel costs---just how much exactly did it cost?

 

Yea interior needs a good cleaning, but my van was alot worst when I got it, and I got it looking new inside again, so this one will be easy to clean out.


I got there, looked around the van, talked with the owner abit, and i'm like, ok how much are you looking at getting?

Hes like, whatever you give me. I'm like well give me an idea.... hes like offer me anything over 50$.

Ok.... will you take 100$ then? He smiled and said, yep absolutely, get it out of here!


And I can't wait to get this thing running, so how Overdrive feels with 3.54's compared to the War wagon's C6 with 4.11's

 

WOW----top notch score IDI-DJ----that's what I call a crazy great deal. Heck even at scrap prices the local auto shredder would give almost $300 for it.

Hope to see your progress on this one!

 

E4OD with 3.54's! Man, that thing is going to be awesome! I'm totally envious - what an incredible score John!

 

Cool score!

I thought tow bars were illegal here in Ontario!

 

Never heard of them being illegal. Towed alot of different vehicles with it, never got pulled over for doing so.

 

SHE LIVES!!!!


Just got my 100$ IDI club wagon fired up!


I bought it non running, owner said it looses prime. Hasn't ran in 2 years.


Well all I did was put the 2 almost new batteries from my F350 in it, turn the key on, waited on the plugs, cranked for about 6-8 seconds, and it fired up with a huge puff of blue smoke, it surged up and down very lightly for a few seconds, once that was over, exhaust was nice and clean, engine was nice and smooth.


The IP does sound very very retarded though, as the engine is very quiet, but runs nice and smooth otherwise!



I'll have to re-install the front bumper, slap some plates on 'er and go test drive it tranny feels great just running around the yard, and brakes grab like new!

 

I've wanted one, I don't like todays computer operated vehicles, those old ones were user serviceable and friendly.

 

Me thinks you just may change your tune about the E4OD! If not, I've got a C6 I'll trade ya for it.

 

This should be a "good" E4OD, as it was rebuilt 30k miles ago.

Have a receipt saying it, and the guy payed 806$ for the "upgrade" so i'm guessing it was well rebuilt.

 

The E40D is crap regardless, but being rebuilt, you have some time, maybe, before it pukes. LoL

 

Well I took the club wagon on it's maiden voyage

Heres a vid of it!


Did a full inspection on it today, found brand new brakes all around, front end all night and tight, except for the passenger side tie rod, sealed up the rain gutters and fixed the fuel leak it had causing air intrusion!