The first one we did was a friends 68' and treated it like a house. We started by wiring first, then buying a gallon or two of undercoating. We brushed this on the sidewalls as a sound deadener and stuck the 3 1/2" fiberglass to it. Then it was 1x2's the length of the sides and added paneling and trim like you would do a house. The corners we boxed in and used the area for speakers and lights leaving a removable access panel for the jack. We also boxed in the wheel wells and made benches from the front of them to the corner. The roof with the thinner ribs we also undercoated but stuck carpet padding to it. this was covered with masonite sheeting screwed to the ribs and painted. As far as the doors we took garbage bags, the large lawn and leaf ones, pulled the paper off of the 3 1/2" insulation and put it in the bags. Taped them shut and stuffed them in the side and rear doors then screwed masonite to the door. We didn't do anything to the front doors because of the window assembly and didn't know what to put in there at the time. Then cut plywood strips, undercoated the floors and stuck the strips to it between the ribs and put down masonite and carpet.

You wouldn't believe how warm and quiet it was in there. On cool nights the condensation would form on the outside of the van everywhere but where the ribs were. Eventually we closed in the area between the wheel wells and made a bed there and put the spare under it with everything else. In all we ended up doing 5 vans. We used them as campers and places to party. I basically lived in mine for about two years.

Man, those were the days......