Found this on FleaBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/301750091480?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Not mine, no way affiliated with the sale---just found it a blast from the past.

Actually for a beginning restoration project this would be a great start, pretty complete with most of the hard-to-find parts included.

 

I had no idea Ford made anything like that. I thought it was just VW.

 

Your kidding......right......

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JWA - you should pick that up for a winter project

My collage roommate had a '67 (in the mid '70's) and yes........we put paneling on the interior

Locally, there was a guy that drove one around town, that had the double side doors on both sides, very rare to see one of those.

 

JWA is completely finished for a lifetime on "projects", weather and complexity/thoroughness of restoration notwithstanding. My next big project will be replacing my rusting-away-as-I-watch-daily 03 E250. I've spotted several decent candidates but 1,000-1,200 miles away so not sure if that's a way I'll go.

Looking for a "nice E250 extended body with a few amenities like PDL & PW, cruise control (aka VSC) and windows only in the rear area doors makes this a bit slower of a successful hunt.

Were it not for me needing a rear heater one with barn doors on both sides would be da bomb!

 

That is what I learned to drive in. 1965 Ford Falcon Van, 240 straight six set between the front seats with a metal box around it, three on the tree for tranny. Had to slingshot on the highway if you wanted to pass someone on a TWO LANE road. Ours had windows all the way around though.

 

Aka "The Mystery Machine"! Remember Scooby Doo? Just slap a couple daisies on that thing, and yer all set for goin' to San Francisco in the Summer of Love with some Flowers in Yer Hair. Groovy Baby!

(Too bad they neglected to tell everyone about the Autumn of Syphilis, and Winter of Gonnohrea though. Oh Well.!)

 

None of which even comes close to the Spring of AIDS huh?

'Twas a time of discovery, experimentation by a generation thought to be taking the USA on a no-return path to destruction. Oddly enough that same generation is now leading us-----could it be all those doomsday fears of the elders back then took 45 years to come true?

 

Nah, heck no they pretty much had it pegged spot on back then I reckon.

 

When Volkswagon of Mexico was finishing production of the old-style Kombi (also called the Microbus when first imported into the USA) in the early-'90s, IIRC, somebody, maybe the company, put up a wonderful billboard with a photo with one of the vans in the background, and an old hippie with long grey hair and the beads and all of it, sitting and sobbing into his hands, all with the caption, "Adios, Kombi."

 

The "Mystery Machine" was a Chevrolet Corvair Greenbrier.

P.S. The word was spelled 'hippie'. Probably to distinguish it from folks with oversize fundaments!

 

I don't think slang was ever standardized particularly.

"Hippy Hippy Shake" was released in 1959 for example.

 

I pick up loads occasionally in Santa Teresa NM....I can tell you its a very dry desert area...adjacent to El Paso Texas....

Thats a neat looking old van but I personally have no need of any more 'projects'...