While doing research on this apparent unicorn van I recently bought for $500, I read your article on a Pathfinder 4x4 Safari (Trail's End, June '21). At the end of the article, your author asks for ...

This 2003 Chevrolet Astro is a highly capable, custom-built 4x4 pop-top adventure van showing 129,000 original miles.

Manufactured, sold, and marketed alongside the GMC Safari, the 1985 to 2005 Chevrolet Astro van was that rad 4x4 minivan that everyone forgot about, given the current crossover, SUV, and truck craze.

American vans are almost gone from the automotive landscape, their role taken by either pickups or crossovers. But who can forget something like the Chevy Astro? We think vans are pretty cool, ...

Four-wheel-drive vans always have been and always will be rad. With that said, let's fast-forward past the Russian-built UAZ-452, the Volkswagen Vanagon, and many others, to March 1988, when we met ...