I recently found my Grandpa's old 1995 Chevy G20 5.7L Gladiator van sitting on a used car overflow lot by doing a vin search.
My Grandpa surprised me with it one day after Kindergarten in 1996 and I fell in love with it. After he passed away in 1999, we traded it in. Of all our past family cars, it's one I feel the most nostalgia for.
It looks almost just like how I remember it, although the TV/VHS I loved as a kid is gone but that makes sense now that everything is digital. The body has a couple rust spots mainly under the window moldings but I think it still looks pretty sharp and better than I thought it might look and it surprisingly only has 124K miles on it.
I really wish we could buy it back but we just have no room for it at the moment. It was nice to see it though and I'm surprised it was in one piece, as it seems almost every other family car we've sold has ended up totaled.
The day he bought it in 1996, I was 5.
I've always loved the front end style on these vans, still has the deer whistles my grandparents always stuck on their cars on the rubber bumpers.
Seats still look nice, looks like some wood trim is missing on the dog house cover:
It has the cool lighting fixtures on the ceiling and walls.
Somebody did a hit and run on it while it was parked in 1997 but the body shop did a perfect job fixing it all up.
The tire cap is missing or maybe inside, funny the Python alarm stickers are still on even though it was taken out right before we traded it in. The emblems are laying inside.