Instead, Angry Grandpa changed his mind and had them fix it.
Byrider keep the van if they wouldn't honor their warranty to repair it. Fortunately, Grandpa was able to pull over to a Sunoco Gas Station and park there. This van also blew out the transmission one time when Angry Grandpa was driving down the road one day with Michael. Angry Grandpa has had several flat tires during the time he's owned this van, one during Halloween 2012 when he was about to drive the boys around to do some trick or treating and another in November 2013. Angry Grandpa bought it from a car dealership called J.D.
About a day after getting the van, Angry Grandpa had lock the keys inside the vehicle while he was about to drop his grandsons to school. This vehicle would become Grandpa’s daily driver. In 2012, Angry Grandpa needed a new vehicle as both of his old Mercury Villager and Ford Focus broke down and were unable to be drove, thus were scrapped. The vehicle later broke or presumably died in early 2012, thus it was scrapped. During this time, Michael played a prank on Angry Grandpa by throwing a string of firecrackers under the car, startling Angry Grandpa. Angry Grandpa tried to start this vehicle one day, and it was running "like a fucking tractor" by the noise the engine was making, according to Michael. Angry Grandpa can barely get in and out of the passenger's side of this car. It didn't look very great after Angry Grandpa was spray painting the car, getting angry thereafter. Michael suggested Angry Grandpa to buy similar-colored spray paint to cover it up. When Angry Grandpa and Tina were in the process of getting a divorce, Tina scratched the paint on this car with various drawings and writings. Tina wanted Angry Grandpa and Michael to pick up a piece of furniture out of the trash from one of their neighbors in the trailer park, and they used this car to retrieve it. Prior to that, it had always sat in a lot next to the driveway in 2011 due to the Focus being turned into Grandpa’s daily driver.Īngry Grandpa and Tina have both driven this vehicle in various videos whenever the red van is not used.
Angry Grandpa said he sold it to a junk yard and it got scrapped as a “trade-in” for his 2004 Ford Freestar he later bought and due to fact that nobody wanted it when trying to sell it, considering in such horrible condition it was in with ticking engine noises, stained seats and floors, ripped seats, cracked windshield, odor, uncovered steering wheel, passenger-side dashboard and airbag, age, etc. In a Q&A video, a fan asked him what happened to the van. This was also where Grandpa heard the news regarding Osama Bin Laden's death on a radio station in the vehicle’s stereo since his old trailer at the time didn’t had any electricity to have him watch the news on TV). While trying to sleep and keep warm, the vehicle gave off a weird gas odor, which Tina said it might’ve been carbon monoxide, even though carbon monoxide is odorless. Another prank involved Michael having one of their neighbors in the trailer park "steal" the van and Grandpa's $20.00 when they stopped at his yard sale. This van was used as a makeshift way to keep warm for one night for Angry Grandpa, Tina, Michael, and the boys, since the electricity in the old trailer was shut off at one time due to Tina not paying the light bill and spending the money for that bill on Christmas presents. The problem turned out to be a wire that Michael had unplugged on the engine. Michael played yet another prank on Angry Grandpa so that the van wouldn't crank when he tried to start it. Angry Grandpa thought that the battery was dead, so he destroyed the battery. Michael played another prank on Angry Grandpa by opening the door to the van when Angry Grandpa was in it, and then throwing a snowball in it. Michael played a prank on Angry Grandpa by wrapping a smoke bomb in a box pretending it was a Christmas present, and it filled smoke in the entire van. There have been numerous pranks involving this van. Angry Grandpa had broken the windshield in it with a socket extension when he was mad, saying that it wasn't his fault that the windshield got in the way.
It didn't have any hubcaps nor a plastic cover for the back of the steering wheel. This is the vehicle in which Angry Grandpa had owned and droved as a daily-driver, until he later got the Ford Focus in around 2010 and later just drove it occasionally whenever he drives with Jennifer’s sons in 2011, as seen in the earlier videos of The Angry Grandpa Show.