Welcome back ! Always good to read detailed posts like this. There are some active vanners down your way that you will meet here on the vanning.com forums and a bunch more if you venture over to :

http://vcvc.org/

One of the vanners you will meet over there lives just up the coast from you and has similar taste in vans. I met him at a gathering we had in Huntington Beach last March :

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This is an actual calendar page for the 2008 VCVC calendar that Wookee and Carl put together. Another great idea for an Xmas gift for early Chevy lovers. If you want one get over to VCVC.org quick ! Top notch calendars that help support their site.