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She Gave Her Van a 1970s Overhaul, Shag Carpet Included
Wall Street Journal ^
| April 15, 2023
| A.J. Baime
Posted on 04/15/2023 5:00:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway; gundog
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posted on
04/15/2023 5:02:13 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
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To: nickcarraway
This is news worthy of the Wall Street Journal. Thirty-five years old and identified as a student. We are indeed living near the end times!
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posted on
04/15/2023 5:02:33 PM PDT
by
7thson
(I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/15/2023 5:04:55 PM PDT
by
Drew68
(Ron DeSantis for President 2024. A real conservative.)
To: Drew68
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/15/2023 5:08:58 PM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/15/2023 5:19:28 PM PDT
by
sasquatch
To: nickcarraway
That van was made in the day when decent cars were made here.
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posted on
04/15/2023 5:23:43 PM PDT
by
wjcsux
(On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
To: Drew68
Great album from a rockin band! I swear I saw a black spray bombed minivan today with an angled red stripe on the sides and bright red home made looking spoiler on the back. The plates read “B TEEM”.
Freegards
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posted on
04/15/2023 5:27:07 PM PDT
by
Ransomed
To: nickcarraway
The Dodge vans made from the late 60’s to the mid 80’s were pretty much indestructible.
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posted on
04/15/2023 5:27:20 PM PDT
by
wjcsux
(On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
To: nickcarraway
A charmingly impulsive move on her part. I can see why it caught her eye. What a cool piece of Americana and practically dripping with vibe from a time that seems worlds away. Funny to think that customized vans were kind of a craze for a while there. This one has some nice Cragar rims like you’d see on a muscle car, some very deftly hand painted pinstripe accents, and oh man those stripes. I do notice it has some rust issues here and there if you look closely. Maybe she’s got a complete restoration planned once her restaurant starts raking in the bucks.
To: wjcsux
Rust seemed to do a pretty good job taking them out.
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posted on
04/15/2023 6:20:11 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Ransomed
Great album from a rockin band!Hell, yeah! Fu Manchu kicks so much freakin' a$$!
They really should've been bigger than they were. More than twenty five years later, they're still a bar band.
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posted on
04/15/2023 6:24:05 PM PDT
by
Drew68
(Ron DeSantis for President 2024. A real conservative.)
To: nickcarraway
Heck, my mom’s van was better than that and it came with shag carpet!!
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posted on
04/15/2023 6:29:17 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: wjcsux
“That van was made in the day when decent cars were made here.”
Yep... I am converting a 1978 Chevy 4X4 van into a camper right now.
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posted on
04/15/2023 6:39:51 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: Larry Lucido
It’s a manufactured van. The art was in the one off custom trucks. I used to go to a lot of custom van shows with my friend who had his tricked out econoline, saw some awesome work at those shows. This ain’t one of ‘em.
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posted on
04/15/2023 6:48:48 PM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
To: nickcarraway
It’s a bit hard to see. Can you make the picture any bigger?
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posted on
04/15/2023 7:47:59 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: nickcarraway
Hate the side mirror attachments of that time!
(although maybe fashionable, I think her trog footwear sux)
-JRoberts-
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posted on
04/15/2023 7:50:22 PM PDT
by
A strike
("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
To: Clutch Martin
There were a lot of paint and body shops that did cheapo "conversion van" jobs in the '70s. Add a porthole window, some period-popular stripes and maybe a roof rack & rear ladder (chrome, of course), and then offer some stereo speakers and carpet - done.
This one, despite being a Dodge, looks like a Ford factory offering (they had a Pinto with the same "stripes and porthole" package, IIRC.
The serious custom van shops were the ones that were capable of one-off airbrush murals and such.
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posted on
04/15/2023 7:59:06 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: nickcarraway
She needs it to transport a dog that big.
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posted on
04/15/2023 8:09:11 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
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