Vans!

[Motornoggin]

Originally Posted by Hayduke

Any pics you could scan?

Not here. Everything is in my mother's secret photographic archive (huge pile in a closet somwhere...).

Think lots of alternating 6" white/metalic powder blue/metalic medium blue stripes with dark blue pin stripes between. Raised fiberglass roof, ladder on the right rear door, but no roof rack (ladder to knowhere!). KC Highlighters (smaller than Daylighters) on the front bumper for night driving through Indian reservations. Drove like a floaty tank.

[DirtyOldMan]

[Hayduke]

Originally Posted by sixer

I know its not a "van" but close enough no?

I spent many summers camping out in one of these in my childhood.



I never got to sleep in the pop up portion, always got stuck with the cot across the front seats. Good times, I'm glad my parents were hippies.

Sweet. This is the last "van" I owned...

[mutineer]

my Uncle who was also the only other motorcycle guy in my family drove nothing but late 60's Econoline's for a long time

he was also a photographer

I never really put that together until I was older


he is the coolest motherfucker in my whole family

[Juice Box]

[katbeanz]

I sold this one five years ago, sucky picture.



An old GE fleet van, added captains chairs, house speakers and an amp.

[FLYING EYEBALL]

[Beery33]

Originally Posted by Hayduke

Sounds like my childhood. We had several, including a 68 (?) flat nosed Dodge... those really are my favorite. The one in the pic was a '73. I gotta ask Dad if he has more pics.

I want to say ours was a '74 Tradesman 300. I picked yours for a similar Dodge from the interior door handles.

[nwgs]

[Hayduke]

Originally Posted by German Trick

I always liked the Dodge A100s.

Me too! Those are still my favorite. My Dad had several of those, and one of his best freinds had one with the "boogie man" painted down the side.

One of ours looked alot like this, actually...

[mike54]

Originally Posted by Gravity's Dog

205 story -

1986 was the year I first "caught air" with a motorized vehicle. An '85 (maybe older) Dodge 13 passenger van. My dad had bought it from a car service. It was on a 1/2 ton frame that sagged on the driver's side 'cause the chauffeur was a fat guy. Like really, really fat. The van was blue and white. I took it over a hump in the road going way too fast. I was on a date with one of the nicest girls I knew. She was not impressed and dumped me. Almost putting her through the windshield of my dad's van on our first date was probably only part of it. Right through the passenger's side. From the inside out. Which was cool with me, 'cause I married her best friend about 7 years later, which was kinda my plan all along. Seriously. Including the air. The van was never the same. It was better. We called it Orca.

edit -

Like this '82 but with a blue strip and blue roof -




edit - I looked like InfoManiac's avatar at the time.

I like that story.
A bunch of us guys got 65 ford econolines when I was going to school becuase that's what the phone company was getting rid of. 'Cept I got one of the 1/4 ton pickups. We were getting 'em to carry our surfboards to the beach and I thought the pick up would be better and different. Then I found out that the vans could do double duty as a place to neck with your sweetie. Man I was such a dork-o-potomus. So I traded the pick up for a VW bug with a rack on top. That didn't work any better but it was cheaper to keep running.

[St_rydr]

[d mc gee]

When I was a kid we had a early 70's VW (oranage and white), dad tried to rig up an auxilary heater. I remember it was always cold, and it broke down alot. I think the slider popped off a few times too.

We were more staition wagon people, at one point my parents had matching Caprice wagons.

[d mc gee]

Build one of these.....

[Carlo Muro]

Originally Posted by Hayduke

I found and scanned this pic of me and my Dad the other day, and since looking at it again it seems like I keep seeing some really cool vans out there- and some of them have really cheap prices on them!

Maybe it's because I spent my summers living out of this thing, but I love vans!

Screw your hippie van...I'll take those Ansen wheels off your hands though. Damn I love those. They might be ETs but they look lke Ansens