The 2003 VW Eurovan has been in my stable going on three years now, and it's one of the few in the U.S. that's been converted to the European-spec manual gearbox. We recently installed an ARB awning on it to perhaps drive us to use it more as intended, which is as a rolling camp site or beach shack.
For whatever reason, I'm just bored with it. The only reason it's still here is due to my wife's objections whenever I mention wanting to sell it. There's no financial incentive as I'll never get out of it what I've put it in (a break-even scenario is a remote possibility); it's more that it takes up a lot of room and if I'm going to take a "fun" car out for a quick spin, I usually take my E30 or the 996.
I loved it after it took us down and back to Georgia a few times. I suppose some of the thrill has worn off now that we're back to flying. What I am hoping for is that a pending relocation to the mid-Atlantic region will open up a few doors to make long-distance traveling more feasible as we'll be a reasonable ten hours away from my in-laws and two hours to places like Ocean City and Rehoboth Beach.
But we also live in a place currently where Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard are a stone's throw away, and we simply don't find ourselves with the kind of time and schedule to take off at a moment's notice. So, the van's utility is definitely neutered, and like every specialty vehicle I own, they like to be driven and don't take well to sitting.
However, as the one vehicle my wife feels strongly about keeping, it's not going anywhere any time soon.