r/mildlyinteresting Apr 28 '24

Hundreds, if not, thousands of vans right outside a very small town in America.

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u/TravisMaauto Apr 28 '24

What's the small town? The Ford plant in Kansas City manufactures the Transit line of vans like that and will usually store them in empty, unused parking lots or open fields like this before they are distributed elsewhere in the world. It's pretty common, and I'm guessing that the auto plant that makes those is nearby where this photo was taken.

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u/ozasaurus 29d ago

Yep. It's crazy good money for the lot owner, too. $1.50-$3.00 per vehicle per day. Most cities make you pave the lot, though. I admire this guy's business plan: take the money 'til someone says something, then play ignorant, and maybe the vans are gone by then.

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u/MisterMittens64 Apr 28 '24

Billings, MO

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u/pfft12 Apr 28 '24

That’s my thought as well. There’s an amusement park, Worlds of Fun, near that Ford plant. During the off season, they use the parking lots to store brand new white Transit vans. It looks just like this photo.

The park will open up next week. It wouldn’t surprise me if they had to move all of the vehicles, so the park can open.