We offered him $10K before we bought the yellow van, he wouldn't sell it...I see it regularly driving about, and mostly at the Post office. I actually had the tailgate in the back of my car once when he was at the PO and showed him, and told him to hurry up and paint his, he laughed and asked where I got the tailgate, I said it was painted, and off our Red van, I think because it looked so new and nicely painted he thought I had bought it that way lol....he loves our vans, and if he was financially better off prob would restore it...it is his daily, and still runs well, and sounds great....just surface rust on the van...and everything he told you about the prang etc. is all true....