New Van

Well, this is my first blog and I gotta say.......I can't believe I'm blogging!!!

Off the bat, just so everyone knows, this blog is dedicated strictly to my addiction to my van and all of the cool things that I do to it.

Let's see...here' s the rundown: a bunch of years ago, I bought a 1992 g20 chevy, shortbox. It was an old rusty rogers van. This is where my addiction started....I began fixing it up, getting rid of all of the rust and quirks and the more I did, the better it got. When I was finally content with it, it was orange with black flames on the front and teardrop windows in the back corners, had a totally finished interior including padded vynel walls and cushy carpet and neon lights.

Then one day, I had an opportunity to get a 1981 GMC Vandura 1500 which is more or less the same van but old school. It had everything that I wanted my '92 to have ie: flares!! old school dash, flip out rear windows, no windows on the sides, chrome bumpers, running boards, chrome horns on top and a sun roof, red velvet interior, chrome rims, highbeam floor switch and a good looking black paint job....all the bells and whistles.

I bought it for a cheap price of $1000, oh yeah, it had a 350 with a holley carb in it!! It had some serious balls but with serious balls comes serious gas consumption. I switched the holley to a rochester and boy did it make a difference. This van was great other than all the problems of vehicles with carbs. The rainy day stall outs were getting annoying; the sun roof was leaking and then the bloc heater quit and started sending burning coolant in to the cab, fogging up my windshield beyond visibility. Having just moved and really needing a reliable vehicle, I decided that it was time to consider buying something a little newer. Having owned both new school and old school chevy vans, I knew the reliability was much better in the 90's models not to mention the fuel economy. But, this meant letting go of such great things like the old school dash and old school brake lights and the highbeam footswitch.......but, I knew it was worth it.

So here's the criteria that I decided on, if I was to buy another van, it's obviously has to a shorthbox chevy van, it has to have rear windows only or no windows, it has to be a 90's model and the body, frame, engine, and tranny all have to be good shape; I even thought to myslef that a musturd yellow van would be nice. 5 min. later I was on the net, just for fun and the first van that I found fit my criteria and it was only an hour out of town away. Oh yeah, this was the only van that I found that fit my criteria....what the heck are the odds of that???

Here's what I got, "SHAZAM!!!" (now immediately after reading the word 'shazam', look at the new van below and be amazed!!

Tune in next time kids, for the exciting next installment of PIMP MY CHEVY VAN

*cue the cool credits/end of show music* (probably with a 'phat' bass line of a sort)