Monday, January 10, 2011

This extra post is for Scott and his wife!

Scott from P.A. asked if I was OK since Andrew had been doing all the posting. I'm doin' fine just busy with the baby lately.
This little puppy was for sale years ago on Vannin.com and I would have given my soul for it. Unfortunately, my soul isn't worth shit so I wasn't able to buy this perfect Dodge. It was also around $10,000 if I remember correctly.



Some wild interiors

Once again, I pulled these from god knows where so if they are from your site, let me know and I'll update the post. Pretty rad shit though! Botom two are the direction I'll be going with my van when hell freezes over and I have the money to redo my ride.







Love this van!

The Dice guy's did a feature on this sucker awhile back. Man, if this is your ride shoot me an email! I'd love to see more pics. jmcruz37@yahoo.om

Sunday, January 9, 2011

KOZY KAR BAR S.F.

We've known about this place for awhile and Donny has been fortunate enough to live in San Francisco and actually drink there. He say's it's "Vantastic!!!"

Get it, "Van-tastic"

OOOOOHHHH SHHHIT, I'm LOL!
It's probably a good thing that this place isn't close to my house otherwise I'd probably live there.
http://www.mazeltovproductions.com/
1548 Polk St (at Sacramento)
San Francisco, CA 94109



Thursday, January 6, 2011







Night Train (chromed axle is a nice custom touch)




Mural ideas from Hot Rod Jan '76






CB Radios

Breaker Breaker, this is rubber duck over. Here's some CB advise from the pros to keep them smokey's off your ass.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Larry Ask's Econoline

This Econoline is on the top of my list. Such a clean finish, who said work vans where white? They even based a 70's van model after it.







Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Norwegian Van Update

Jason,


 I just looked at your post on Vandoleros from Sunday, November 28, 2010 about the custom painted Dodge van.
The pictures are from a old Norwegian car magazine, that still are going strong. www.amcar.no.
The Van still looks like in the pictures, it`s been in my area sins the early 80`s. 
It was customized in Canada in 1976, by Ivan Benic, www.ivanbenic.com. 
He painted the van on a car show in front of the public.
Maybe I can find som more original photos of this and other old cuztom vans here in Norway.
I finally got myself a Old School Short van earlyer this year also. 1975 Chevy.
 
Found som pictures I took in 05/06.

Regards
Stian Julieboe
Norway

PS. Love your work, Great Stuff!!!



Thanks Stian, Very much appreciated!!! Look for a post soon about Ivan Benic's van murals!



Monster Squad!

Do you remember the TV show monster squad from 1976. College kid works at a wax museum in the monster section and has a machine to bring them to life at night and they fight crime. Kind of Kroft style of show. Anyway as stupid as it was I loved that show. They drove a black chevy van with flashing light on the roof. tomb stones on the sides, sword and old lanterns.   They only made one toy buy Ideal. It was a small friction car just a little bigger than a Hot Wheels. I have had this thing since 1976. One of the few things my mom didn't toss out. Anyway just curious if you remember it or not. I have never found any pictures of the real van. Wonder what ever happened to it. 
Take Care, Scott


Here is a link to the trailer for the show with a split second of a really cool van in it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuFO5QzT9fw&feature=related

Rad Chevy!

Man, I wish I could remember what blog I ripped this pic from. Let me know if this is your van or where the pic came from and I'll update w/ a new post. 
I LOVE THIS CHEVY! Where is it from?

Thanks again Scott!

Friday, December 24, 2010

1ST RIDE AT UTILITY!

My buddy Josh over at Utility sent me this just before the baby came and I was supposed to post it then. Should be pretty cool if you're going to be in the area. It's in Upland.

Vandoclaus say...

"On, Donner! On, Blitzen! On, Chewy! On, Tavo! C'mon, Becto!"

Oh, well, man, he had some magic dust, man.
Some magic dust?
Yeah, magic dust, y'know? He used ta give a little bit to da reindeer, a little bit to Santa Claus, a little bit more for Santa Claus, a little bit more...
And this would get the reindeer off, man?
Aw, got 'em off, man?!? Are you kidding, man? They flew all da way around da world, man!
Hey, that's far out, man! Hey, I come I never met this dude, man?
Oh, man, he doesn't do that bit anymore, man. It got too dangerous, man.
Yeah, I can dig that, man, 'cause that's a dangerous bit, man!
Yeah, lemme tell ya, it sure was, man. Like just two years ago, man, he got stopped at the border, y'know, and they took him into another room and took off his clothes, man, and searched him and searched his bag of goodies, man...and then, when he was leaving, man, he was flying through the air and somebody took a chot and his reindeer, y'know.
Aw, that's a drag, man.
Yeah, it really was, man. And then, man, he went down south, man, and they tried to cut of his hair and his beard, man. And all the time, he was getting stopped and pulled over and asked for his ID, man....just everywhere he went, he ran into too much recession, man.
No, man, you mean he ran into too much REPRESSION, man.
Aw, "repression"..."recession", man...it's all da same thing, man.
Yeah, man. But, it's a drag, man, 'cause we could sure use a dude like that right now.
Oh, he still comes around, man.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, but he comes in disguises now...
Aw, he went "underground", man.
Yeah, "underground", man.
I can dig it.
Yeah. But you ought to see his disguise, man; nobody would ever know it was him, man.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah. He's gotta job in front of da department store, ringing this bell and playing this tambourine next to this black pot, y'know?
AW, I'VE SEEN THE DUDE, MAN!
YEAH! You know who I'm talking about, man!
Yeah, man! I played with that cat last year, man!
WHA?!?!?

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Don't miss the next one

What a great time this I had this weekend at the van swap, ya it rained but was good times. Craig was already there and got some cool new captains chairs for his van, score cause now I get his old ones. As for me I got a stack of chopper mags a cool US vintage horn cap and of course a CaPtAiNs HeLm shirt.

If you got a van don't miss the next one, lots of cool stuff and people to hang out with.

Got to see Chase's new BaDaSs pipes and rims. Oh and see some guys aren't scared of the rain they just bring a tarp.


Went to eat after.


And it was pizza, you could see Craigs vans in the glass


Here's some of the goody's I got, I'll post the cap when I put it on.