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Back in the 70s when people first got the idea to customize vans....
which were previously just utility vehicles, I was working for a guy who also owned a company called Superior Coach I think it was. And he bought and sold hearses and ambulances.
In his back lot he had a few low milage trade in hearses, and I bought one. A 1957 Pontiac 371 cubic inch, if I remember correctly. So instead of customizing a van I drove this hearse. I bought a couple of old fur coats and put them in the back as a bed and installed an 8 track sound system and I was all set. I jacked it up a bit which was common at the time, put on headers, road pipes and 10 inch mag wheels. It had a red leather interior in the front and rear/burgundy velvet in the back. The only weird thing was it had no door locks.
Hey. It was a different time and I was wild and crazy.
That 70s Van
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Back in the 70s when people first got the idea to customize vans....
which were previously just utility vehicles, I was working for a guy who also owned a company called Superior Coach I think it was. And he bought and sold hearses and ambulances. In his back lot he had a few low milage trade in hearses, and I bought one. ...
First thing I thought of when looking at your photo
Was Monty Python - bring out your dead! ...
The first time I parked it in front of my girlfriends house the neighbors were calling to see if everyone was ok.
I mean C'mon. Does a regular hearse have mag wheels and jacked up. lol
Thinking back, a couple of my friends had tricked out vans and one had a 57 Nomad. Basically all for the same reason.
One guy was married with a couple of kids and the back of his van had a stove, sink,....basically like a travel trailer. That's what marriage can do to a guy. lol
Funny you say that. I just looked but none that I can find. A lifetime ago.
I grew up in the late hot rod period, where guys a few years older built hot rods, and my group bought 68-70ish muscle cars. ( I had a 68 Charger 440 magnum after the hearse) There were a number of guys doing custom paint in my area, the one van had lace ...
What an Awesome Time, Cars are a lifestyle, did yours look like this...
Source: Carscoops Check out this interior 😎 Source: facebook ...
Yup the vans were like that (except the married guy). My Charger we just like that with out the red stripe on the back.....
and I had mag wheels, 10 inch on the back and 8 in the front. I fell in love with it from Bullitt and got a gold one and painted it black with a black vinyl top.
I saw the pic, that's the coolest Charger 😍 how was the drive?
American Graffiti is an excellent film
Great for the time. It was automatic and could chirp the tires shifting from first to second. Nobody. was looking for a great ride in those muscle cars.
Gordie Bonin the Funny Car driver (Pacemaker Bubble Up Funny Car from Edmonton Alberta) had a 68 or 69 Chevelle and would put a 10 dollar bill on the dash and as he went through the gears if you could grab it you could keep it. Nobody could do it. Here's ...
What did he do to the Chevelle to make it that fast?
Love these Yenko Chevelles Source: Fuel Curve ...
It had a 396 with headers, not sure what else, probably a cam or something. His story was, he was the hang around kid (just 18 I think) to a couple of guys...
who built a dragster, one was a rich kid who's dad had a bunch of money and the other guy was a car/engine builder. So Bonin would tag along to the drag races and the rich kid always drove the dragster but could never win. So one day Bonin convinced the o...
One of my pals has a '68 Roadrunner sitting in his pile . . .
. . . of project cars up in Fort Bragg. All original, 383 four-speed, some body/frame damage. Let me know if you want it. They say you can't go home again, but obviously whoever came up with that phrase never loved a Mopar.
That's interesting. I've kind of lived my life in phases, and although I've loved the phases, I just never go back and try to relive them.
I had a couple of friends back then with Road Runners and a Super Bee. I think the Road Runner ended up on its roof one night. We used to take over a piece of highway at midnight and drag race. It was a mile long straight away and we put lookout on hills ...
Three adventures I'll never forget: almost drowning after sailing off of Sunset Beach . . .
. . . summer of '73, the 8-ball game vs Kacie a few months ago, and the freeway race in January '73 between Berge driving his '70 GTX 4-barrel 440 and a blonde in her '69 Hemi Charger R/T. I was riding shotgun. 😵💫
That was really….yes wild and crazy haha….
I saw a couple of Maserati hearse recently…going out in style, as they say..
You knew . . .
. . . this was coming. Btw, the guy in the yellow jacket sitting under the sign at 36" is my dear friend Miguel Murillo, master chef of The Rainbow Bar and Grill. I took this photo of him in 2013. He passed away three years later . . . missed but not forg...
Hahaha 😁, I also like the later Chevy G20 Custom Big Window Vans
Source: Google Images Cooler than the ubiquitous Mercedes Sprinter Custom Vans and SUVs, perfect for road trips ...
That billboard in the background...funny but true.
"Your Ride Came With More Ashtrays Than Seatbelts"