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Re: What started your interest in vans?
wolfpaw518 #508909 November 01st 2011 7:01 pm
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Back around '77 a friend bought an old van from the phone company he let me sit behind the wheel and I remember looking out at the mirrors on each side and thinking I gotta have one of these.

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Re: What started your interest in vans?
wolfpaw518 #508944 November 01st 2011 9:20 pm
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Re: What started your interest in vans?
Hayduke #508957 November 01st 2011 10:34 pm
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Very well said Hayduke........ smile


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Re: What started your interest in vans?
wolfpaw518 #508971 November 02nd 2011 12:05 am
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It's been in my blood since birth. My grandpa had a '69 Dodge, then a '75 Ford window van he gave to my dad which we used to go surfing in. He kept his last, a 1986 Ford window van until his death. The 1975 went to me and I learned to drive in it. Then my dad conveniently forgot he gave it to me and sold it a week before my 16th birthday. Was he afraid for the girls??? So at 18 I got my 1977 Dodge which I restored and kept for 7 years - I still regret selling her. I finally got back into it as my wife kept questioning why I would drool and stare every time a cool van went by. I love my '75 Chevy and don't plan to make the same mistake twice. And one day I hope to own my grandpa's 1969 Dodge as well. He sold it to a neighbor down the street who keeps it like new to this day. I've left some notes over the years, but now that my grandma is in a retirement village I don't see it anymore. So just in case, if you live in Northridge,CA and bought your old Dodge from Wallace Andersen and decide to sell, let me know.


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Re: What started your interest in vans?
wolfpaw518 #508974 November 02nd 2011 12:16 am
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Re: What started your interest in vans?
wolfpaw518 #508979 November 02nd 2011 1:34 am
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I liked the fact that the van was much like a jeep, the custom-ability is only as limited as your imagination will carry you.

When I was about 6 years old my dad had a brand new E350 with the 460 that he used for Snap-On tools delivery van and I remember helping him paint the sides with the Snap-On logo and some added side stripes the interior wasn't anything truly special but the fact my big bro, lil sis and I would be in the back of the van horse playing on our way to Vegas from Tonopah, (when it was frowned upon, not necessarily illegal) not to mention the smell of "skunk" of which I will never forget.

But lastly, I think it was the purchase of my 88 G20 that got me hooked. When I found this website I never truly understood the meaning of "vanner" but soon realized that everyone here was more than helpful in my troubles. Thus I consider these mysterious "vannin" people my new family that I have yet to meet.


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Re: What started your interest in vans?
wolfpaw518 #745594 February 23rd 2019 10:55 pm
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Re: What started your interest in vans?
wolfpaw518 #745595 February 23rd 2019 11:32 pm
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I've started surfing at age 11. Age 26 I flew to South Africa, Bought a 73 VW westfalia.

After two weeks of living from the van traveling from it, I was hooked.

Bought my Dodge van when I returned to US years later.

Been avoiding being a 'responsible' consumer citizen, ever since, as White picket fences and children and 40 hour work weeks living hand to mouth were never my dream,

Keeping a woman happy, I always saw as a futile and pointless endeavor.

Re: What started your interest in vans?
wolfpaw518 #745615 February 24th 2019 2:01 pm
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I never thought about it that way.I just tried to be a decent person and found a woman who made me happy. Nuts and bolts and amps and volts are way more fun than women. To each their own I guess.

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