My brother-in-law now drives a Chevy HHR panel van

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein) 07/03/2017 at 12:51 • Filed to: None

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My wife’s sister and her husband came for a pre-July 4 visit yesterday. He’s a flight attendant, and they had been in the market for a cheap commuter car for his 60 mile round trip from Burlington, WI to the Milwaukee airport. They showed up in this.

I was genuinely curious as to how someone could end up deciding to pay money for an HHR panel van, when they are not a plumber, florist, or some other profession associated with panel vans, so I asked, nicely, how they chose it.

My sister-in-law has a new-ish Honda CR-V but my brother-in-law had been commuting in an early 90s Buick Regal coupe. They finally decided to replace the Regal when the a/c stopped working. They were looking at cheap and fuel-efficient used cars at the few dealers around Burlington (population: 10,541) and this HHR was the lowest mileage car in their price range, with only 27k on the clock. My sister-in-law remarked that she actually kinda liked driving it. So my brother-in-law figured “hey, it’s the lowest miles in our price range and by wife is willing to drive it, I’m buying it.” And he did.

If you were curious what’s on the other side of the HHR panel van’s not-windows, it looks like this on the inside:

I made sure to take off the dealer tag frame before they left. Because we all know dealer tag frames are evil.

EL_ULY > Textured Soy Protein 07/03/2017 at 12:52

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GRAVE DIGGER livery naow kthxbai!

Textured Soy Protein > EL_ULY 07/03/2017 at 12:55

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Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Textured Soy Protein 07/03/2017 at 13:00

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This obviously means you’ll have to one-up him... by getting a PT Cruiser GT!

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Textured Soy Protein 07/03/2017 at 13:02

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I find it more interesting that someone bought a HHR panel van and swapped the doors from a standard HHR onto it. The panel vans didn’t have outside handles or windows in the rear doors.

Danimalk - Drives a Slow Car Fast > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 07/03/2017 at 13:10

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There were actually Full and Half panel versions.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Danimalk - Drives a Slow Car Fast 07/03/2017 at 13:16

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Interesting. I never even heard of the half panel.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > Textured Soy Protein 07/03/2017 at 13:26

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I’m just confused as to why the half panel even existed in the first place...

WiscoProud > Textured Soy Protein 07/03/2017 at 13:33

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I don’t hate these nearly as much as the PT Cruiser.

Takuro Spirit > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 07/03/2017 at 13:40

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Convertible!

Dave the car guy , still here > Textured Soy Protein 07/03/2017 at 13:45

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A service writer at our dealership noticed that in an old college town where we used to work we had a lot of old hippies driving them. One day an HHR came in and the car smelled heavy from weed. From then on the HHR stood for “Honky Hold’n Reefer”.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > WiscoProud 07/03/2017 at 14:18

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You would from the inside.

Danimalk - Drives a Slow Car Fast > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! 07/03/2017 at 15:13

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It’s for companies that have a small logo.

:p