FIRST GEN CARAVAN! 1990 Dodge Grand Caravan SE at U-Pull Salvage Yard in Minnesota

[@oldyellow8120]

Great to see that you could use so much off it! Much better than just going to the crusher.

[@redneckbryon]

When I was a kid, we had an 87 same colour. It was a blue and blue base model. With the V-6. It had factory AC that still worked with its original charge, even when we got rid of it in 2000. Something that was cool with the old Caravans, the second glove box underneath the passenger seat. We lived in the rust belt, ours wasn’t rotted out. The engine was starting to use coolant. That’s why we got rid of it. But it had over 300,000 km

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@redneckbryon pretty decent mileage for an early 3.0 v6. Super cool story!

[@klwthe3rd]

Not too many people back then bought the BASE model. And if they did, they didn't get the upgraded V6 engine. Do you know if your parents bought it off the lot or was it special ordered??

[@harrymiller8538]

You did good. Got so many good parts off that 90 1st gen. & 50% off price to. What a haul & jackpot. Looking forward to seeing your 90 after you incorporate those parts.

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@@harrymiller8538 i know right! It's going to be a lot of work, but it should turn out ok! As long as it's better than it was, that's what counts (:

[@Hobotraveler82]

That 90 Dodge is exactly identical in color and equipment to my grandfather's 1989 Voyager. Amazing. Boy if I had money, i figure out a way to get her back on the road. So many good memories in that Voyager. It was my grandparents first brand new vehicle in 13 years. Thanks for the memory jumpstart. 😊

[@michaelwyatt8030]

Afternoon nice blue caravan no rust for the year lots of parts good tires on the back so thanks for the video

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@@michaelwyatt8030 thanks for watching mike!

[@michaelwyatt8030]

@ your welcome you no I like watching you love to come over there help you bc fix vans go to the decking yards

[@Minivan_Man]

Wow😍😍 Favorite color... And my freezing evening is saved, thanks!

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@Minivan_Man freezing here too!

[@Minivan_Man]

@MNMoparMinivan We sit arround 20° Fahrenheit over here, converted from metric to freedom units😁

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@Minivan_Man 21F and dropping here. I heard something about -20F windchill tonight :(

[@richroj]

very good video again, thank you👍

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@@richroj appreciate!

[@mostlymoparih5682]

Looks like you figured out how to fold the rear bench seat. Good haul. Happy Motoring.

[@mnchryslerminivan9537]

I’m very happy that I saw that first gen Grand Caravan when I did on facebook and told you about it, it’s seriously helping your Blue Van and it’s beyond amazing in my opinion and it’s a early Christmas miracle

[@thestuffz]

man.. a 3.3L in a first gen! that thing would haul butt!

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@thestuffz my 90 does pretty good with it!

[@thestuffz]

man what a find!! glad to see you got a fair share of parts off of it! I seen in the wheelbarrow near the end you also grabbed the under front clip "spoiler" thing. I used to have one on the propane van until it caught a hard finger snow drift on the way to work. didn't notice until the end of the day and by then it had been ran over 100 times.. I also have a gen 1 bug deflector off the propane van that I want to put on whatever van I get going next year. I know they don't help with the mileage but I know first hand they really do cut down on the bugs and grasshoppers making it to the windshield. I woulda grabbed some of them floor bench seat blanks to if they were any good. not easy to find them in matching blue!

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@thestuffz yeah when I switched my 90' from the plastic bumper to the chrome one I never had that underskirt. Was glad this one had a good one. I kept the deflector on the hood, not sure if I'm going to use it or not. I'm 50/50 on it.

[@thestuffz]

@@MNMoparMinivan the deflector is just an iconic piece of the 80's era

[@Compact-Disc_700mb]

Nice van, good thing you got some parts off it before it got crushed.

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@Compact-Disc_700mb yup! I'd rather have traded mine for this one though..

[@Compact-Disc_700mb]

@@MNMoparMinivan Yeah that one was in great condition, did not deserve to be scraped like that.

[@klwthe3rd]

These final years of the first gen are very attractive vans. The front end treatment that came out in 1987 and finished in 1990 makes these first gens in my honest opinion. I would hope you would save the grille and lights since those are so hard to come by these days. Being an SE in powder blue really looks nice. I wish people would put these vans up on marketplace or craigslist BEFORE they just junk them. Once the average junkyard get a hold of them, the general public destroys them without any care for what they are. If you look at the manufacter sticker, this was ONE of the LAST first gens to roll off the assembly line since it was made in June(6) of 1990. Another great van that could have been saved. 😮‍💨

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@@klwthe3rd well all of the parts i took went towards saving mine so not all is lost (:

[@MNMoparMinivan]

Who was gonna tell me about typo in the title 😅. Caught it just now

[@luke9511]

my grandparents used to have a red or burgundy 90 grand caravan and they got it brand new , they replaced the engine attleast once, it had been wrecked atleast once and then the engine finally died again and it was sent to the crusher, that was back in the mid 2000's and i think the body had over 300k miles on it, but it was a decent car

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@luke9511 wow that's amazing! Definitely got their money out of that van

[@462ANIMAL]

Man , that blue van doesn’t belong in the junkyard. You need it !

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@@462ANIMAL well i took home as much of it as I could!

[@462ANIMAL]

@@MNMoparMinivan I take it you snagged the rear bumper ? You need a few wanted ads posted wherever you can . Might get some good deals.. add more vans to ur fleet !

[@462ANIMAL]

@@MNMoparMinivan Did you get much snow ? We got about 4ft in the last week

[@MNMoparMinivan]

​@462ANIMAL bank account and yard space says no can do. And we got an inch or so. But it's cold as heck.

[@462ANIMAL]

@@MNMoparMinivan 9F overnight for us , feels like -2F I’m buried in snow . We got over 60” since the end of November.

[@CRXJDM88]

If I could I would have showed you a video of what I found on the scrap yard I found the first gen with complete full front and back bumper and great condition same color too

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@@CRXJDM88 if you've got pictures, email me! (:

[@CRXJDM88]

@@MNMoparMinivani do email

[@briandjordjevic9969]

I have my dads 88 caravan 3rd row seat in my garage. Same blue

[@martinmccoy2735]

When pinstripes represented a deep pocket.... The small town banker or lawyer.

[@brianseippel493]

I want the bug shield, lol. Can't find any around here. Still, slowly, getting my 90, with woodgrain, together.

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@@brianseippel493 I'm not sure if I'll keep it on mine or not

[@dancline2143]

Seems like this thing was well cared for through 1999. Maybe original owners? I would say that with the mouse nests, this was probably parked shortly after the tires were replaced. Probably would have been just as easy and cheap to buy the whole van lol

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@dancline2143 yeah not much wear on the tires. I'd say you're right!

[@oxygon2850]

The first few words out of your mouth in this video sounded like you were the Heath Ledger Joker finding an interesting minivan... LOL

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@@oxygon2850 🤣

[@davinp]

Chrysler updated the minivan in 1987 added the longer extended version called the Grand and changed the grill.

[@legoeul2676]

Looks old school

[@peachyclean93]

That's the first year of the 3.3 l V6 same drivetrain that's in my 1990 Chrysler imperial such a shame to see that in there another little piece of my heart broken!

[@timbriden625]

You had mentioned something about the transmission computer update /replacement. Is this something that can be done still. My 90 3.3 with the 4 spd auto has a mind of its own at times. Wondering if this is what it needs

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@timbriden625 theoretically it would be. You would need to find a dealer that still had a drbII, the required software, and someone that knew how to do it. That may or may not take some calling around. Or you could salvage a trans computer from another van that has a software update sticker like this one. I don't remember the latest revision off the top of my head but the version is noted on the sticker.

[@98-SR5]

Montana doesn't spread salt I believe, but sand instead. Lucky find! Are you going to paint the 90 to match these new panels, or the panels to match the van, or something else?

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@98-SR5 I'm going to paint my 90' back to its factory color which was the dark blue. Currently its that speckled blue. I think I've shown it a few times but my van was dark blue with woodgrain. You can still see remnants of that in the door jambs

[@98-SR5]

@@MNMoparMinivan yeah, figured that was the way you'd go. Would have been sharp with the woodgrain back then.

[@bulbman7080]

#DodgeGrandCaravan

[@stevecole101sc]

God i wish i could post a picture youd hate me i turned one of these into a pickup truck. It was missing the rear glass and it had 289,080 miles on it

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@stevecole101sc ive seen a few pictures of the pickup conversions. Some are really well done... others not so much. 289k... only 4k more than mine has lol!

[@RangerRick-cg2gu]

I know by the look of the background it's sitting at a U-Pull-R-Parts. My hunch is East Bethel Minnesota.

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@RangerRick-cg2gu Youre good! Check out the description ;)

[@RangerRick-cg2gu]

My apologies. Have you ever been to Hiway 101? They have a you pull it section.

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@RangerRick-cg2gu i have. Although I haven't been since their original shop burned to the ground. They don't have as much older stuff. And upull has had everything i need as of late. When I need something they don't have, I swing in there. Although if their inventory was as easy to check as upullrparts, I'd be more inclined to go.

[@RangerRick-cg2gu]

What I do to find out what might be in stock at Hiway 101, is go to their website. Then I look for a common item that they used for the whole generation of production, like a hood or windshield. Right now, it looks like they have an 07, then a few 08-13 minvans.

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@RangerRick-cg2gu that's how i filter at upull, is with a fender. But the thing about 101 unless they've changed. They use car-part.com salvage listing's which iirc requires them to input a lot of those by hand. They miss a lefthand fender on one and then you don't see the van listed. UPull doesn't work that way, it just autolists every vehicle that *might* have that part.

[@bulbman7080]

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[@michaeljackson8510]

Hey, my name is Michael. This van is the exact same color as my 1990 Plymouth grand Voyager exact color. I tried to call Bethel I live in South Mississippi. Can’t get a hold of anybody to see if they can ship me the bottom part of the seat only the cushion part the bottom part and a couple other parts Don’t laugh at me, but it would probably save me a ton of money instead of having to try to find somebody to rebuild my cushion part of my seat, along with visors and the little chrome trim pieces that go round the inside of the door lock I can Venmo you money give me an idea how much to ship it how much it is about to buy I know you told me you don’t normally do that but I’m trying to figure something out because we just cannot find these body styles down here and is the exact same color as my vehicleplease respond. I’m so sorry for asking you this but I would definitely Venmo if you gave me a reasonable offer this extra cash.

[@MNMoparMinivan]

@michaeljackson8510 I do not work for this yard, but their policy is that it is a u-pull only. They don't pull any parts or ship any to my knowledge. Im not in a position to pull and ship parts for others either unfortunately. I suggest going to car-part.com and browsing for 1st gen vans. I like to use a front left fender to find listings. Then call around and see if anyone has the parts you're looking for.

[@michaeljackson8510]

Hey, my name is Michael. This van is the exact same color as my 1990 Plymouth grand Voyager exact color. I tried to call Bethel I live in South Mississippi. Can’t get a hold of anybody to see if they can ship me the bottom part of the seat only the cushion part the bottom part and a couple other parts Don’t laugh at me, but it would probably save me a ton of money instead of having to try to find somebody to rebuild my cushion part of my seat, along with visors and the little chrome trim pieces that go round the inside of the door lock I can Venmo you money give me an idea how much to ship it how much it is about to buy I know you told me you don’t normally do that but I’m trying to figure something out because we just cannot find these body styles down here and is the exact same color as my vehicleplease respond. I’m so sorry for asking you this but I would definitely Venmo if you gave me a reasonable offer this extra cash.