I want to introduice our russian van club here, at vanning.com



and our faces



We are based both in St-Peterburg and Moskow, try to find, save and restore US-trucks and vans.

our vans

‘76 Chevrolet Van G30 Long Custom (350)


‘79 Chevrolet Van G30 Beauville Sportvan (350)


‘79 Chevrolet Van G30 Sportvan (350)


‘83 Chevrolet Van G20 Beauville “ZenziBus” (350)


‘83 Dodge Ram Van B250 (318)


‘84 Dodge Ram Van B250 (318)


‘86 Chevrolet Van G20 Sportvan (350)


‘88 Chevrolet Van G20 (305)


‘88 Chevrolet Van G20 (305)


‘89 Dodge Ram Van B250 (318)


‘89 Chevrolet Van G20 Sportvan (350)


‘91 Dodge Ram Van B350 (360)

A lot of pics on the website (see archive) website
but I don't understand a word what you're talking about

yeah, we are doing originalvanners.ru about van culture at all, and in Russian Federation especially.
some material are in Russian, sorry)))

Cool Club and nice website.
Thank you for sharing.

How about an eVANt over on the grounds at the
'summer palace'?!?!?

aa, sorry - what you mean under "summer palace"?

Isn't that what Peter called the palace in St. Pete?


That's what I had heard......

ahh)) no! It's called Winter Palace!

How about a truck in at Chernobyl, You could make all the noise ya want

My bad Anton--so sorry!
I had a 25% chance to get it right!! hee hee

Anyway--still an eVANt there would be cool!

ahahah))))don't worry - 50% of our citizens dont know what's "this green building near this river"))))

Very Cool

Oh wow..that's great wbud!

A Chernobyl joke? Ya know the people that live in that area of the Ukraine are still reeling from the effects of that disaster.

I'm not very PC, my bad

That logo needs to be put on a t-shirt! I'd buy one for sure!

yes, we have it for sale - we will received new pack of t-shirts with this logo soon, first issue already sold.
Please send me message.

Do you get a lot of people asking you about these vans ? How rare are they over there ?

Today this vans are very rare.
Some years ago there is much more old US-trucks in the streets, but wether, salt and recycling of iron makes his deal.
But due to our counrty is wide, we have chance to make some new barn findes somewhere in the Siberia for example - outside of the big cities.
Abnormal custom fee and stupid governmemt not permitt us to import here new vans from US or Europe.

yeah, a lot of people ask us about our cars, but most of them cant understand why we love it - fuel consumption, size, problems with construction and spares, absence of accomodation like ABS, A/C, power steering etc. That's all make his nervous - when they cant understand the become agressive. It's abnormal.
I may tell a lot of stories about accidents with neighbors, homeless, police, lowlifs etc etc etc. Terrible.

Our club' caps (need good quality cap-truckers, maybe somebody to know where buy it?) & t-shirts:





And this is a designer who did our logo, Igor Fomin.



If interested I can show more of his work

Welcome WBud, and Zenzi. Cool Logo and Vans.

WBud, I'm Looking foward to hearing more stories about vannin in Russia.Siberia must be a great place to camp.

Nice Website! I like your logo too!

and very nice site

Thanx! We got two new members, chevy '93 and ford '91:
Andrey from Moscow:





and Denis from Saratov:



http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m88kggNqFR1r7j7i9o2_500.jpg

One of the members temporarily ceased to be the owner of the van, but the owner of very rare in Russia Jeep Wagoneer '79:





Keep on Vannin'!

Good to see all you vanners from Russia keep the pics coming.That is a very logo tell Igor I really like it.Good lookin' vans you guys have,great to see those Dodge vans, gotta love those Dodges!

U-joint f***-up

Glad to see you guys here) Zenzi, I told you we have to translate some part of our home page)))

Nice Dodge Dmitry!

nice looking dodge

A shot of Stoli to you guys--
great to see the love of your Vans!

new update)))

Welcome ! ...I would love to have an XL tee-shirt If you could ship me one ? how much ? 44021 burton, ohio

ok, mate!we will find out shipping rates!

.......thanks !

Beauty Dodge you got there Dmitry...........Gotta love those Dodges!!!!!!!!!

Love those old Dodges. What do you pay for gas in Russia?

0,87$ per liter) Not so expensive, but we got a natural gas stations with the price - 0,45$ per liter, but for use it you have to install special equipment.

Welcome to the site from a neighbor in China. Great to see the vans and the van club. Logo is awesome.

Cheers!

Glad to hear from you, Great to hear about Van Clubs in your country. Have fun with it Enjoy your vans and let them be the avenue to meet new friends and have good times as we have for the last 38 years, Vanning is a life style and you live it every day just like good rock and roll. It's just fun to do. Welcome to the site.

Photos from our last meet last weekend:














Weather was good, that's strange for the end of the season in our area this summer. We met together in the suburb, near Gulf of Finland.
Two vans arrived from Moskow - one white shorty Chevy and one maxivan Ram Van.
From St-Petersburg were red Timshan's Ram, Zenzibus, one white-blue color Chevy of our mate Sergey, who's the owner of this beautiful place near water, and the biggest and longest van in Russia. And our smallest transport - shorty Vitara)))

Hi,

nice pictures and glad you had a good weather.
I was in Dahme at the baltic-see in northern Germany for the 16th Van Roundup of the Northlight Vanners, and we had some heavy rain and cloudy weather with lot of wind. But overall it was better than to expect after the weather-forecast.

The white lowtop with the blue-stripes looks, as it was imported to Germany before coming to Russia.
The German Van-importer AM VAN in Osnabrueck had to add german signal-lights to the front to get the vans licences, and he used the from old Opel models.

Hey pics looks like a great time! Keep the pics coming.

You guys know how to do it over there , looks good to you all...

and update again!
We have new dudes in our club - it's
Yura and his G20 Sportvan'80





and Valera Sky with Dodge Sportman'77 (by the way I may said that this Mopar have manual transmission from Opel)) Valera will make this van original, be sure!





His other rides are:







and Pavel with shorty Dodge Ram

I love seeing American Vans with foreign licence plates on them.

And this is hilarious:

Wednesday night

do you guys buy them and ship them back or are they availible in your area ?
how much do you end up spending on average for Van ?

Welcome to the site, and i love your vans.

Wow!! Very nice!!!

You guys have a lot of beautiful vans in your club.

pics keep'em coming.

Yeah)) Will keep coming.

We bye them here. Money spending depends from owner, for example I bought mine for 6500$ and spent around 9000$ for restoring.

Hey all!

Andrey Zenzi got new shorty Chevy!
Not in perfect condition, but nice '78 (i'm not sure, maybe it's '80? I dont remember) van. I comes from our club member Anton with longest in Russia custom G30.
It's with 305 sbc & rebiulded TH350 - hope, it's run well.

Cool...keep on vannin !!!

Cool pics

looks like a fun project.

Great find you got there!

Thanks for posting! I follow a few of you guys on Instagram, an I always enjoy seeing these classic American vans over there. Love that black Dodge, Dmitry. And congrats to Mr. Zenzi on his new ride! Will make a cool project.

Very cool site your club has there, and an impressive collection of vans.

Hey finally a club in Russia, I have a member in my club who has been just put on the inactive list who lives there. I will send him your link and guess he will be in contact with you. We are a multi state van club with members all over the USA and Europe.

Tumbleweed
Nova Vans
Free Spirit
Spirit In The Wind
Virginia Van Council

update!update!
Shorty is already in Andrey's yard!

Hey brother it's the first step on the road to being a fine ride again.

Thanx! It be in this colours and old metal grill:

Waiting tranny from service


There i can read about convert 78-82 face to 71-77 ?

And we got new member in our club Artyom from Lipetsk on b250 1985, he want chop it :


Keep on vannin in Russia

Keep the pics coming...

Very cool

Very brother keep the pic s coming.

Good to see another Dodge brother in the fold tell Artyom for me

Gotta loves those Dodges

good day, first russian chopped van

Fantastic!!!!!Keep the pics coming

kool

Thank you my friends! in Russia, even a little thing like 10" wheels width is already delivering a lot of fun Timur made a small mod for his dodge, rear 15&10 -44 and MaxAir shock absorbers for rear :




p.s. Flasher and sticker for the job. We worked as a lifeguard in the summer on the lakes

A new set of wheels can make a world of difference! Looks great!!

Now that is a gonna be a cool ride brother!

Gotta love those Dodges

New owners in ourclub:
Alexander with newbarn find Econoline '73


and Jenya with Vandura '76


it's vans very rare for Russia! Keep on

Great pics !

Awesome pics.I would love to see more of the chop.

Hi, Dear Friends!
If you already follow us at originalvanners.ru or our Instgram you know all news.

If no - I will show you.



Due to winter comes to Russia and warm season is finished, we decide to make "Season Closed Party" and invite all our frineds, who were with us all this year.

Of course, Andey Zenzi try to make his ride "driveable", but due to all amount of diffirent problems it's not happened.



Anyway we have new incomer - Tony with his fresh El Camino '76. Nice lookin' car, some works with engine already done and it's run perfect.



Unfortunately, our Big frined and car collector Slava El Kaka was absent, but he Borrow his fantastic 510hp MadCamino to Andrey Zenzi.


We started at parking near big city mall in St-Petersburg's suburban.

Again, we have another one newcomer - Oleg with Chevy G20'88.


We stay for 2 hours ant the parking, wait for our frinds form Moskow, meet with frindly Muscle Garage shop



and then our convoy starts




First stop in suburb, near Gul Of Finland.
We want to say, that weather was perfect - sunny day, without rain as usual at this time of year.















We rest for a little, ride a little, skate a little, boiled our MadCamino and went for the BBQ at OVVC headquarter, placed among the forests near suburban village Repino.









Next day our friends from Moskow spent some days in St-Petersburg, visit some friends and trucks, who were absent and our meeting.



More photos you may see at OVVC
and at Flickr

Thanks Timur Timshan, Andrey Zenzi, Machete Speed Crew and all our frineds for support!

Stay tuned!

Awesome! You guys are doing it right! Just friends getting together and having a good time! Keep it up! Keep the photos coming please!

Hey guys cool pics nothin' like takin' a ride in a van with all your friends along.
Any update on the Dodge that was being chopped?

No, but you may follow it here:
http://www.drive2.ru/cars/dodge/ram_van/ram_van_2nd_generation/staylucky/

It's in Russian, but you may check some pics.
We will post all updates with photos and info about works.

Our video from Season Closing this fall.

ALRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's Awesome! Good luck with the chop

Where is this van now ? I would like to see more pic's of it, how did it get that long ?


How did the chop go on that van ???

Great stuff. Love the t-shirts and hats. Do you guys sell on eBay or we could possibly maybe trade I have a few vintage American Nationals t-shirts, all size large though and I am an extra large. I have to 10th anniversary Nationals t-shirts and would be willing to trade if you would like or I could just purchase one of yours.

Do you have any Russian vans in your Club or is it strictly American made Vans and trucks.

That's great! I bet those big American vans attract allot of attention in Russia.

I would love to have a UAZ 452 or a Barkas B1000. Not only do I have an attraction for full size American vans I also like quirky European cars.

My Trabant 601 attracts allot of attention here in East Tennessee, someone from Germany or Eastern Europe is always flagging me down to ask me about my car and why it's even here!

Hey there,

I enjoyed the story and pictures. OriginalVanners seems a big club actually.
Any update ?

The Facebook page seems to have stopped in 2015.
VK social media seems to have some news though here and
there is activity on Instagram

@Jseabolt : nice Trabant btw (still the german plates ?!)

F.

Very nice thanks for sharing.