This is right up my alley

http://limaohio.craigslist.org/cto/3669487478.html

I grew up in a string of these vans, my dad loved them. This thing is really well preserved and cool in that 197x custom van kinda way.

Awesome. I am a little skeeved by the "Shaggin' Wagon" title.

There was another old dodge painted up like the Mystery Machine in Dayton a couple years ago.

That photo with the old circle track car is pretty bad ass too. History.

I would be all over that!

Buddy Arrington?

I guffaw at their claim of 23 mpg.

The_Jed wrote: I guffaw at their claim of 23 mpg.

@55 mph?

that thing is cool though.

I look at vans like that on CL all the time and get excited and then show them to my wife. Then she reminds me that I like being married and draws me a Venn diagram of people who are married and people who own vans like that. The two circles do not overlap.

Gearheadotaku wrote:

The_Jed wrote: I guffaw at their claim of 23 mpg.

@55 mph? that thing is cool though.

That's true, there is some sort of bent appeal in driving something like that!

@ MazdaDeuce:

I love some classic van, SWMBO even appreciated a certain amount of cheesy van.

I love vans, but I want a 70-71 swb Chevy panel van. I want to paint a mural on the sides. :)

In reply to Fueled by Caffeine: Yes.

The NASCAR history of that thing is awesome.

That rules. It looks more comfortable than my house.

May not be the same van - HOF van in pic has 2x round headlights, CL van has 4x rectangles. Could be the same van, but would be an unusual thing to decide to update/upgrade. Just sayin'.

Found this:

Buddy Arrington raced 2 1981 Chrysler Imperials in the Winston Cup stock car series of auto racing. Although he received no Chrysler support, he finished eighth in the NASCAR points total for the 1982 season. Unfortunately, Buddy's Imperial was the last Chrysler product to run in the NASCAR Winston Cup series.

The Imperials were first run at the very end of the 1982 NASCAR season, and in only 2 races. Buddy Arrington campaigned a 1981 Dodge Mirada for all of the '81 and '82 NASCAR seasons (save the two races he ran the Imperials in). After finishing eight in total points for the 1982 season, Buddy alternated between the Mirada and the Imperials in the '83 season. For '84 and '85 (until May '85), Buddy campaigned the Imperials on the superspeedways and the Mirada (which he converted to a Cordoba by changing the nose cone/bumper assembly) on the short tracks. He never won a race, but finished as high as 6th in a few short track races.