Vansploitation movie

The gloriously bad 1978 film "Mag Wheels" is currently on Amazon Prime.   Weirdly mislabeled as "Summer School" 2013.

Vintage vans and pickups, spectacularly bad acting, the whole 9 yards.

You want Midnight  Madness.

Mag Wheels was one of my favorite movies as a kid. 

"Cool van-driving stud Steve gets the hots for Anita, who's the new girl in town. However, this doesn't go over well with Steve's bitchy and jealous girlfriend Donna, who sets Steve up by telling the cops that he's a cocaine dealer. Donna covers her tracks by claiming that Anita ratted Steve out to the cops. This in turn incurs the wrath of Steve's fellow van-driving buddies."

The only cast member I recognized was George Barris.  :) 

In reply to Pete Gossett (Forum Supporter) :

Had to look that up; playing now. It's pretty bad. Noticed George Barris was involved. At least the customs are not as far over the top as his other stuff... so far...

Sweet vans.  There's a lifted 4x4 Ford van that awesome.  

The actor playing "Pledge" bears a remarkable resemblance to Harold Ramis.

But yeah, a couple of the scenes are super cringy.  Overall not a good movie, but a serious flashback movie for me.  

Cringy and the 70's, they very much go together.  I give you pop music from 1973:

I gave a girl a ride in my wagon
She crawled in and took control
She was tired as her mind was a-draggin'
I said get some sleep and dream of rock'n'roll

'Cause like a princess she was laying there
Moonlight dancing off her hair
She woke up and took me by the hand
She's gonna love me in my Chevy van and that's all right with me

Her young face was like that of an angel
Her long legs were tanned and brown
Better keep your eyes on the road, son
Better slow this vehicle down

'Cause like a princess she was laying there
Moonlight dancing off her hair
She woke up and took me by the hand
She's gonna love me in my Chevy van and that's all right with me

I put her out in a town that was so small
You could throw a rock from end to end
A dirt road main street, she walked off in bare feet
It's a shame I won't be passin' through again

'Cause like a princess she was laying there
Moonlight dancing off her hair
She woke up and took me by the hand
We made love in my Chevy van and that's all right with me

'Cause like a princess she was laying there
Moonlight dancing off her hair
She woke up and took me by the hand
We made love my in my Chevy van and that's all right with me

'Cause like a princess she was laying there
Moonlight dancing off her hair
She woke up and took me by the hand