Junkyard Gem: 1990 Chevrolet Lumina APV

Chrysler managed to get to the tip of the Nineteen Eighties earlier than Common Motors might give you a reputable competitor for Lee Iacocca’s Ok-platform-derived front-wheel-drive minivans, which made their debut within the 1984 mannequin yr. This was the U-body minivan, which was bought with badges from three GM divisions: the Pontiac Trans Sport, Oldsmobile Silhouette and Chevrolet Lumina APV. Here is a type of first-year U-vans, a really battered Lumina APV, present in a Denver-area self-service yard not too long ago.

The Chevrolet Lumina sedan had arrived for the earlier mannequin yr, and GM determined to slap its identify on the Chevy model of the brand new van regardless of not a lot relationship between the Lumina automobile’s W platform and the Lumina minivan’s U platform.

The Lumina APV/Trans Sport/Silhouette suffered from an unlucky resemblance to a highly regarded hand-held vacuum cleaner bought by Black & Decker, and so these machines grew to become generally known as the “Dustbuster” minivans.

The lengthy snout resulted within the high of the sprint being deep sufficient to retailer an extra-large pizza or three.

Each Dustbuster van ever bought got here with a V6 engine with 3.1, 3.4 or 3.8 liters of displacement. This one has the three.1-liter, with 120 horsepower driving the entrance wheels.

There is a digital speedometer, however the remainder of the devices are fairly low-end.

It seems that this van was bought new within the Washington D.C. area by “Completely satisfied Jack” Klawans in Woodbridge, Va.

The Dustbusters have been constructed via the 1996 mannequin yr, after which the platform was used for the Chevrolet Enterprise and Pontiac Montana (in addition to serving as the premise for the Pontiac Aztek).

Have you ever ever traveled like this earlier than?

The Oldsmobile model acquired Leonard Nimoy and his daughter in its tv promoting. How do you high that?