Watch out for a white van!!!!

Ok, so, as promised, here is a look at my friend's new van. It is a 1993 G10 Chevy van shortbox cargo van with 81,000 original miles on it. This thing is in superb shape, no really, it is very nice. My friend is a lucky guy to have such a nice machine. I really can't get over it, there is almost no rust on it.

So I immediately began painting this beast, (again with the $50 paint job method), because the weather is starting to change. It is staying white but is getting a nice fresh coat. After that it will have blue stripes of a sort of it down the hood. The same blue used on my van will be the color of the stripe so infact, it could be that this van will be the opposite of my van. The headlight housings will be white and it will get a nice chrome aftermarket grille to remind everyone who sees it that it is a wicked van and demands respect.

From my friend's old van, which was my first van (the orange one), we salvaged the spoiler, my original tear drop windows, the overhead valiance, the back door louvers and some other little things. All of the accessories will be painted white. I've painted as much white on this van as possible, so that it doesn't look like a cargo van. In the end, once the add-ons are on it, it won't look like a cargo van. It will most likely end up with a flare kit and a downspoiler....it's just a matter of finding some second hand if possible. The ones that I had were from my old van so I kind of got lucky because I wouldn't have been able to afford what they charge for them new ;)

I've had to pull the van in to the garage and to the rolling there. It's a tight space to work in but it stays much warmer in there; without, I wouldn't have been able to paint this van at all. Already, I'm worried that it will be too cold to paint once it's time for the stripes, we'll see. I'm hoping to get the last of the white put on tomorrow because after that, the weather is looking to be getting chilly for days to come and it may not get better. I've done a little bit of spray painting on the spots that need to be cleaned up. The spray will help achieve a unifrom coating faster and right now I need all the help I can get if I'm going to get this done before it's too late.

I had an impossible time getting the emblems off before paiting; actually, I didn't get them off. I couldn't let myself get stuck on them as I knew cold was coming so after an hour of failed attempts, I decided to go with plan B: leave them on, paint them and then remove the paint on the very top surface of the chrome. I even brushed a little bit of "PAM" on to the surface to help keep the paint from sticking. In the end, I think that this will look good and hey, it's just yet another excuse to have something custom and a little less stock.

Other than that, I've pulled the mini me model out of my own van as I need to update it's paint job ;)

That's it for now, more pics to come.

Keep on Truckn!!

Keeping it trim.............

Howdie folks!


In this posting: New chrome trim, Destruction Derby, and coming soon -- new van to do!!




Sorry it's been a while since my last post, I didn't have my camera for a while. I don't like to post without pics.......you just need that eye candy, especially all you chevy vanners needing their fix. I know I'm guilty of it; some people look at porn on the net while others, like myself, look at van porn. My girlfriend has caught me many a times, late night she walks in and says: "what are you doing?" , I say "nothing".......she says, "looking at van porn?" and I say: "yup".......and I love it, I can't get enough of it. Those sexy, spoilers, those flare kits, that all around 'bad ass' look........but I got to say, my turn off is shag, too stereotypical.

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Yup, the more I do on my van, the more addicted I truly feel, needing more vans to get out all of the ideas that I have. Sometimes I figure I should just get model kits and release my van demons that way but then I never get around to it. Sometimes I go on to http://www.ebay.com/ and I search things like "chevy van" and I feel stuck until I get through every listing there is........

Other times I google "custom van" just to see what I can find. Then there's the famous google search for "chevy van kijiji" just to see what http://www.kijiji.ca/ has to offer.......the forbidden fruit if you will. This is actually how I found my buddy his new 1993 G10 Chevy van that we just went to pick up together 6 hours away but more on that in a later post; I'm a little behind in my posts and I need to catch up....but really, it is 99.5% rust free and has 130,000 original kms on it, get ready for it, oh yeah, you know what I'm talking about ;)















So, first thing first, I happened to be in Canadian Tire, as I usually am, and I found this stick on chrome trim stuff for $15.99. As soon as I saw it, I knew where it had to go......it was like destiny. The image of each oval on my tail light covers, chromed with trim flashed through my head like lightning hitting the waters during some wacko, intense storm. Needless to say, I bought this stuff and went to work with it. I did the tail lights first and figured that any left over was a bonus. Well, in the end, I had enough to do the tail lights, the marker lights and my dash which has really spruced things up. The key with this stuff is to pre-bend it all before applying; it is flexible but it may need some help before you stick it on. It's a little tight around the smaller, circular gauges but it looks way better than before.


Check it out:


















This stuff is well worth the money. It came with a good amount and was easy to work with. Just make sure your surface is clean before you stick to it.

Anyone wondering, those green switches control the lights on the downspoiler while the other will shut the interior lights off when the door is open, as to not drain the battery. When I'm working on the van with the doors open all day long, I don't like to have the lights on so this switch takes care of that.



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Yesterday, my G-friend and I went out to Rockland, Ontario for the fourth annual destructive derby.
What is better than a bunch of custom vehicles smashing in to eachother until they can't anymore?
It was awesome and I hadn't been to one since I was 13.....too long. I will go to one every chance I have. Here are some pics and a vid which is bad quality, sorry, it's all I got.

I still intend on doing a video tour of my van but I need to sort out a better camera to do it with so stay tuned for that.

*Also, WANTED: My buddy is looking for a mud style flare kit and a downspoiler for a '93 G10 chevy van. The price for them new is insane and completely unreasonable. Do you have some that you'd like to sell???? Even if they're a little beat up, we may buy them for the right low, low price and then put the work into restoring them. Contact me: didgeman.ca@gmail.com

Ok guys, that's it for now. Plenty more to come, I promise.

Shout out to my KW pals, I'm missing yo' sexy butts.......... ;)

TA-DAH!!!!

Ok all, here it is in all its glory.  For an $89 paint job and an enjoyable time to do it, I'm very happy with it.

I really wanted to do a video for this posting but I was having problems with the camera. The next blog update will be a video tour of my van, inside and out.

Here are a bunch of pictures:

Oh baby!!  Check out the street glow!!  

SO, I know, underlights are totally 'fast and furious' cheesy but they do look cool.  I bought these years ago off of ebay and having used them on two different past vehicles, it would be a shame to leave them in a box collecting dust on the shelf. 

Next posting is a video tour,  stay tuned............................