Picked up a new project. RESPECT THE VAN!

Now that takes me back. When I got out of the service in '72 I bought one exactly like it, right down to the color at a Bell telephone co auction. God knows how many mile was on it, but I took off across country and lived in for months. The starter went out somewhere in the south west and I didn't have the money to fix it so I would either park it on a hill, or employ a few of the local hippies who were always willing "to help a brother out" with a push. What an adventure!

 

It WAS an Ohio Bell Telephone truck! good eye guys! you're f'n cracking me up with these comments.

my old lady said something similar when she didnt want to take the maiden voyage with me around the block.

 

They've been hotrodding and customizing these since they first appeared in the early 60's

The Hamb has always been about early customs and hotrodding.

Yep, and so does everything else..

Sheesh! lighten up!

 

Are you a size 14? Dig it man, leave it like it is for a while...just to creep out your neighbors.

 

spray paint "free candy" on the side

 

I respect it, ****** GREAT!

Nick.

 

Old timers on the JJ seem pretty resistant to early vans being traditional hot rod material. I've been PM'd "don't you belong on some van site, anyway?" That's OK. I would go there if there were any as cool as the Journal. Unfortunately they're pretty lame, and many seem to be full of some leftover hippies that talk about van-ins and such. But I did take the van avatar down as it semed OT in many members eyes.

If you have interest in both hot rods and vintage trucks, the 60s van thing sort of straddles the two in a way. My A100 isn't a Scooby Doo job or a hippie van, it has a v8, headers and Edlebrok manifold and 4bbl and it's scary fast and requires a minor deathwish to drive. No power steering, no power brakes. Kind of like the thrill of drivin' a hot rod without spending all the dough it takes to obtain a decent project. This was free, and it has a drag racing (push vehicle) background at some local strips, which I found pretty cool. It ain't exactly traditional, but it works for me for fun.

 

But to take it elsewhere we could use the new JJ site features and start a social group for old vans and stepvans and get outta the way a bit, but still be a part of the scene without ticking off the old guard like manyoldcars who get tired of newbies trying to change things. Just a thought.

Although I see he has a 60's pickup with a 460, which is damn cool and sort of in the same vein as an old van, kinda sorta.

 

the thing is on a motorcycle if you hit something you go flying, in this you hit whatever you ran into with your feet . nothing wrong with em,i would love to own one too, just a thought to add a little metal during construction.

 

DOOOOD! i just thought about that today at work. i was gonna patina stripe and letter this thing before the first car cruise here. and make it say that.

did i mention i hate my neighboors??

 

Vans are Neat!

Not a Ford, but still cool!

 

Sniffinpaint,

Since I was born and raised in Ohio, I have a pay it forward for you.
If you will PM me or give my your snail mail address, I will send you a
1965 Ford Service Specifications for Cars and Trucks Manual.

I was going to list it somewhere for sale, but looks like you would put it
to good use. It has been used, but got plenty of life left.

Just p*** the favor to someone sometime. No april foolin.

Let me know

Bill

 

...couldn't resist...

 

Hey those vise grips look just like the pair in the back of my 62

And jump on board here---> http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=178391

later,Bill

 

haa! AWESOME. i wish i would of taken a better picture. lol.
i hear lowering these is very involved. not saying that im scared, just that i think ill wait until the leafs start to bend the other way to slam it.

 

The second I saw the first picture it reminded me of my dad stopping home in his bell telephone van. The nasty "telephone truck green" paint on the inside just nailed it. I can still remember goin' for a ride around the block sittin' on the engine cover and the sound of that little six ticking away undrneath it.
Man, that was a lifetime ago.

 

Same as there are bobbers, 2-ton haulers, bread vans, panel deliveries, sedan deliveries, late '60s and early '70s drag cars, station wagons, four-doors, limos, funeral cars, and many more on the HAMB...

So, what's your point?

 

Now all you have to do is Write Free Candy on the side and tour your local playgrounds

 

Vans and panels before them have been part of hotrodding since the begining.....just look at the early SCTA photos,and they will always have a place in hotrodding,I understand how some of you young kids dont get it,you are just going off what you think it was like.I was raised around it from the early 60s...........they have a place in our history

 

yes i would like to see the hot rodding rule book where it says no vans and nothing but v8's, lot of people seem to be quoting that one lately. but never seen the rule. that old van is great. do it justice.

 

Right on! that's "vantastic"!!!!
Attached is a doctored pic of my '66 Chevy sport van.
What do you have planned for yours?

 

KEEP ON TRUCKIN'.A word to the wise,I had the English equivalent,the mighty Transit.I brought it back from the dead over a 2 year driving/fixing thing,as soon as I sprayed it some &%$^£* nicked it,I'm still pissed about it!I must have done too good a job?Alarm it

 

my plans for it are to tighten the steering, turn signals and brake lights, stripe it and drive it! when my roadster is done ill tear into this thing.
being a striper it is a perfect advertising vehicle and great to take to the shows with all my paint in the back. a good friend of mine (J-bird) another great striper has a sweet looking econoline with his studio name on the side and graphics all over it.

 

"Respect the van", just saw the commercial for the first time. Now I get it...

 

Looks cool. I dig it.

 

I was walking out of the Advanced Auto in Macedonia, when this guy sees me getting in my older daily. He asks if I want a 65 Econoline Van. I have no room for another car, so i call Dave(chrome daddy-o) who looks at it and it finds it's way to SniffinPaint....cool. Who knew it go so soon. Glad it got a good home. SniffinPaint, how about paining "strangers have the best candy" on the side of her? And also, how many more newbies want the name G***er 57....WTF? Have fun, it should haul some paint..

 

It is a sick world and sniffinpaint is a happy guy!!!

To bad the guy striped the interior, bet it was weed smelling **** carpet, bed in the back with a divider wall comlpete with a heart shaped entry hole!! "Love mo sheen"!

Post pics of any progress, it is very HAMB friendly and folks eat this **** up!!!!

I will find one for myself someday! and have a big *** ChromedaddyO.com logo on the side!

Thanks for the lead G***er57!

Dave

 

i had to

 

cool van at least it doesnt have those dont laugh at it your daughters riding in it stickers on it

 

how do you tell the diff between 61-65????