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| | | Re: Van Names | Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 2,108 veteran | veteran Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 2,108 | "MOTHER'S NIGHTMARE" I just figured if I was to pull up in some mother's driveway to pick up her daughter in my van and she looked out the window what would she think???? | | | Re: Van Names | Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,105 Likes: 1 old hand | old hand Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,105 Likes: 1 | GALAXY; I am not for high tops, but you really have a nice Vista Cruzer look going on. Very nice top!! I can imagine cruising down the highway, laid back, at night looking out them at the sky. Not you cause your driving. How cooooool is that.
I also have to agree with Reed. Don't really care for Chevy's but you and lostinthe70eees have made me look twice, OK maybe three times. Both very cooooool vans.
One is for the family guy and one is for the single guy.
Got to love vans they are so versatile.
I am in the process of picking a name. I think I may have one, but don't want to say till it is final. I can tell you it is very Van 70's.
Richard
It is better to have Van'd once in your life, then to never had Van'd at all! | | | Re: Van Names | Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 490 addict | addict Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 490 | My first Van, who got a name, was my 87' Vanagon. After I sold the second full-size Van, the GMC Vandura 2500, I put the bugdeflector on the front of the Vanagon. I had put "The Galloping Goose" and some small logos on this deflector shield, and so the Vanagon got the nickname "Goose": As I bought my show-vanagon, it carried the name "Highway Bully" on the bullbar. This sign came from an earlier VW Bus, the previous owner had. First I thought to rename the car, but over the time the name "Highway" burnt into my mind, and so I kept the name. Since I have repainted the travel-trailer, I call it the goose-trailer. BTW, I just picked up the goose-trailer on friday after it got the base-roof repainted. And than their is now an airbrush-mural above the tail-window, and american-eagle with a yellow ribbon, painted above a flying star spangled banner. Will post a picture, when the sealing is finished and the signal-lights and third-brake-light is installed again. | | | Re: Van Names | Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 3,124 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 3,124 | As a kid I grew up in a very tough city. Always figured I'd be lucky to make it out alive. The very first time I ever rode in a van was in '76. I was 15. A buddy of mine had just purchased a bright yellow 67 Chevy van, all decked out. As I rode in his van, with Lynnrd Skynnrd's "Street Survivors" playing on the 8 track, I knew my direction. The van was a symbol of independence, and also a means of escape from the cruel streets of Bridgeport. I too was going to be a survivor of the streets.
I bought a 76 Ford in 1979, and of course, I named it the Street Survivor. I had that van for 10 years, and life got in the way, so I had to sell her. Less than a year later, I found her in a junkyard, smashed and stripped clean. I had a few more vans over the years, and in 2005 I bought my 74 Dodge. This van was unbelievably clean when I got her, no rust at all. A true Street Survivor. I resurrected the name for several reasons. The van and I are both survivors of the streets, and I believe she'll be surviving long after I will. Plus I felt I owed it to the memory of the ol Ford that carried me away from the city I grew up in.
| | | Re: Van Names | Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 969 Likes: 1 old hand | old hand Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 969 Likes: 1 | Widow maker was at the top of my list (actually "widower maker") but is was a bit ironic because my wife is deathly allergic to spiders.
I also thought of something military but if I do that I have to roll with the theme-to-name plus if I were going to do that it'd cost me too much to do it right (cummins diesel, allison trans, camo green or tan, blacked out lights, dark tinted windows, parascope, radar system, etc.)
Boot, That's a great story, good to see that something came into your life and changed it for the better, I guess the lesson here is "a van is a very powerful tool, whether for work, play or shows, it will always get the job done and show you a path of light" I think I'm going to put that into a bumper sticker! Thanks!
Gone vannin' I'll call you later.
| | | Re: Van Names | Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18,213 Likes: 2 Supreme Master | Supreme Master Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18,213 Likes: 2 | Divorce maker
Everyday above ground is a Good Day!!! Never Stop Vannin'
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2003 Grand Caravan Member Vanatics Van Club-Spfld, IL Member Florida Van Council Member Central Florida Vans,-Orlando, FL | | | Re: Van Names | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 28,125 Madman! | Madman! Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 28,125 | I guess the lesson here is "a van is a very powerful tool, whether for work, play or shows, it will always get the job done and show you a path of light" Sounds like Vanner Religion! Let us pray I'll take a couple of those stickers! | | | Re: Van Names | Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 11 stranger | stranger Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 11 | White Widower? Well it is white, and it was covered in widows???
What one thing you can be sure works on an old van... the owner :/
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