Is anybody into 70s custom vans? I think they are really cool!! I'd love to have one someday. My dream van would be a mid-70s Dodge Tradesman 100 short-wheelbase. It would have a fully customized interior with **** carpeting and leather seats. The only windows it would have would be the small porthole windows on the sides. It would have the sidepipe dual exhaust. The wheels would be aluminun slotted mags, and it would have white letter tires. The back-end would be jacked-up a little bit. I would want it to have either a custom mural painted on the sides or some custom striping. I'm not sure what color I'd want, maybe silver or orange.

 

Wow, thats a blasts from the past! I remember when I was younger, thats all you seen at the custom car shows. I wonder what happened to all of them.

 

My dad used to do the customizing on those vans. Almost 20 years he worked on them. He has a bunch of magazines with vans he has done in them. Always amazed me.

 

"I wonder what happened to all of them."Well there is one in a junk yard close to me .

 

I wonder what happened to all of them, too! I have some magazines from the 70s that show pictures from some of the van shows of that era and there were tons of those vans! They're next to impossible to find today.

 

They are pretty cool , my friend sold his 77 Dodge van , had the lil port hole windows , green **** carpet ,bed in the back and the van was orange lol. It had the 318 in it, and we always took it on road trips. He was the kinda guy that drove it like he stole it so he ran slick tires on the back so he could slide it around curves, never did flip the thing. Well he sold it, got a 280Z and rolled that about a week later. {Never did figure out his weird luck} He is still kicking himself for selling that van though. It was one cool ride i have to say, even though people kinda laughed at it.

 

Owned a '88 GMC K3500 4X4 van for a few years. It was all done up on the inside with carpet, sunroofs, cabinets, couch that turned into a bed, and a love seat that was right behind the drivers captains chair. It had 2 huge windows. One on each side. One with an etching of a boat pulling a waterskier. The other was a very dark tint with a opening on the bottom that slid from left to right. It sat up nice with some 33" AT type of tires on it. It was a great traveling vehicle. I still wish I had it.