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Tell your wife she will have the coolest "Dude Magnet Rig" on the block... This is my wife's DD and she gets guys drooling on the hood at least twice a week asking if she would consider selling it! Nuf said. :) Thom OK...a PS...All the above AND...she can pull over anytime and take a potty...

Greetings, your van is a nice blank slate! They are nice rigs as a base. I attempted to figure out the year of your van...2008?? Maybe you stated the date and i missed it. You might have better luck than i did finding a driver swivel for your year, but i've been told by insurance companies and...

SPOT ON!! 100% in agreement. (Though, like you, we were seriously considering the SMB. And will admit 75% of _my_ reasons were the bling/status factor. But hey, no one would ever say your rig lacks bling!) Thom

Hi and glad you had fun "lurking" in my build thread. It has been a fun project. We both commute about 10 miles round trip here on the Oregon Coast. Yes we are spoiled. We see about a dozen cars on the road during the round trip. Sure beats our previous life in the Portland/Vancouver Metro. The...

Greetings real3175 and welcome to the Expo (at the time i post to your above reply it shows 3 posts). If you are in fact new here this is a fantastic place for pondering designs! Anywhoo.... just as an in-context reply to your question to 86cj and his GMC... our Chevy duplicate is my wife's DD...

Looks like the makings of a fun adventure!

Wowzer how time flies! The last time i posted a campsite shot was back when we had our TACO pre Chevy Van. This is a shot looking up from the river at Quartzcreek east of Sweet Home Oregon along the 11 mile stretch of dispersed camping. A great place to relax (and find gold in the river - my...

Looks GREAT !! Will make a nice platform for many fun adventures. Happy Trails, Thom

LOL... I'd have to say ZERO on the van since it is the wife's DD ;) Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

We ended up on a single track that turned into a quad trail in our TACO and it got a serious christening! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Great shots TLow. Looks like a place I should plan on visiting. . .maybe our next trip up to the Randal/mtRanier area. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

As another hinted earlier, Van Specialties in Portland has close ties with Outside Vans up the Gorge. Just one example of sky's the limit interiors from VS (All van types) that are similar to what OSV (focus on Sprinter) will do for a client... If there is a _Van2_... i most likely will go...

Yup you guessed it! That is the exact "Donor" vehicle i used...just a different photo. that darn rain. i thought it was supposed to be summer. to much time on my hands ;) This is a back to the future photo...someday, somewhere, someone will spy this in a lot! Cheers, Thom

;) What dreams may come.... A Ford Transit on steroids...my photomod. HaHa ya think? Can't blame a guy for dreamin' & schemin' Thom PS...it rained today...what's a guy to do but to doodle... This one is the Ford Transit LWB EB on a Ford Raptor chassis :)

stopped for a quick lunch break on the way to camp... Our Chevy 1500 AWD van conversion pulling our 15ft Parkliner fiberglass travel trailer...our 34ft articulated motorhome ;) Thom

2010 Chevy Express 1500 AWD (~24K on odometer at this posting), 5.3L V8 running fully loaded (van conversion/full tanks/two peeps/2 wks supplies) all the time (~6800 to 6900 lbs at scales on 7K GVWR)... we typically see (it's my wife's DD) 13mpg around town and ~16 on highway. Pulling our...

I guess all us AWD owners can now officially call our rigs "Classics" ;)

I've only encountered packed and wet sand on the beach in my hometown of Warrenton (off the Peter Iredale beach access road and surrounding area). Since i'm a rational very married husband...i don't dare get my wife's daily-driver stuck as the tide comes in ;)

:) one of the first places i went...just down the road from home

I'll share my towing experience with our chevy 1500 AWD van conversion. As mentioned elsewhere our rig is sitting just under its 7K GVWR...so in our case i don't want to exceed a trailer weight of 5K...getting the total up to the GCWR of 12K. Our set up is currently the van conversion (as bed &...