My dad loved custom vans (being in the 70's during his formative years)... Never owned one.
One day I fell down the van hole and found this guys channel. Not great production, but wow does he find some weird stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/user/jjlightning
So many chain link steering wheels....
Cool channel. We had a 87 Master Ace Surf with all the glass windows and double sunroof. But always wanted the Dajiban Tokyo style ones.
I've always wanted one of those. Oh, the mural possibilities!
I need to take my van to one of these shows.
When I was in 4th grade.... my dad had a big white 66 Econoline van with a blue wave painted down the side, and a bed in the back. Not as nice as those show vans though.
I HATED that thing as a kid.... but would probably drive it now, lol.
Custom Vans absolutely RULE, and they always have. I've always wanted to build one myself. I even have a theme in mind! It would have the cover of a video game airbrushed on the side, probably the original Castlevania on the NES.
Inside, it would look like a early-mid 80's living room with a console TV and woodgrain everything, complete with retro video games to play.
Man, that would rule so hard!
Back in college a good friend of mine had a mishap in a mid-60's Dodge Sportsman van wherein he managed to find the limits of its cornering capabilities in a dogleg left in front of a mall. He laid it over onto the driver's side and slid a few hundred feet before coming to a stop. His only injury was a cut on his hand from the side mirror coming through the driver's window. The bleeding worked in his favor as the officer on the scene was more concerned with getting him to the hospital than verifying that he was intoxicated. The abrasive action of the road upon the exposed hinges caused him to drive it for some time after that with no driver's door. The paint wasn't real good on that side either. Fun times!
I wish I could afford and had space to build a lemons car based on a 1978 SWB G10. It would then be done in different paintjobs seen on Kreiger's Van.
In reply to buzzboy :
I built a 78 long ago. Fiberglass hood, windshield visor, roof wingy thing, and front air dam. Custom grill, swivel captains chairs, shag carpet, paneling, bed, big stereo, aftermarket wheels etc. Was a fun truck built under challenge budget.
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I'd love a custom van but my dad didn't pass the body hair gene on to me so I'm not qualified.
I wish I could find my Polaroids of the Three Stooges themed Econoline I fell in love with at the Boston World Of Wheels in the 80's.
I might be able to buy a pair of porthole windows to install in the ex-GRM van, and I already know what mural I’d get airbrushed on the side. I still need to keep the interior functional though, so no shag/paneling/crushed velvet.
In reply to Pete Gossett :
If you watch more of that channel you will realize that stained glass is a prerequisite.
My neighbor has a '74 Chevy panel van with a single cutout bubble window in the back side. Gray, no murals or anything. I hear the distinctive whine of its SBC starter every Sunday morning at 11:45 to drive down to the package store. He's owned it for something like 30 years. Cool old rig, if a bit...sketchy.
buzzboy said:I wish I could afford and had space to build a lemons car based on a 1978 SWB G10. It would then be done in different paintjobs seen on Kreiger's Van.
Vanispheres!
Since we are talking murals, a little image cross post from my build thread.
They are not airbrushed but for each Lemons Rally we have stuck 2x3 murals on each side of our van.
Moscow 2019
World Tour of Texas 2019
In reply to logdog :
I was hoping you would pop in here and contribute. You sir, ARE living the Vanning lifestyle. Well done.
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