Pics of your VAN! Post up!

[86scotty]

Beautiful pics!

 

[ujoint]

Very cool!

 

[Butch1979]

New Tires on the Sprinter

Put some new BFG All Terrains on the van today. Really like them.

 

[draaronr]

Looks good

 

[izaicinajums]

Somewhere in Death Valley

Heading down the Lippincott Road, Death Valley

 

[Scarab0088]

Hello to the Forum

Newbie here, working on my dream Ex-Van...Here are a couple photos from the day I found her...

A '76 Pathfinder Quadravan w/ 4BBL 351 V8.





If anyone recognizes her (the paint was rather memorable) it was always a SoCal Q-Van as far as I can find.

I will open a new Thread to document the build to date.
Found on Craigslist, being sold by a young Marine leaving Camp Pendleton for college.

Because of substantial rust around the gutter rail, she has had a total body swap with a '75 SWB E-100 (15" removed from the frame).
So now she is shorter for better clearance off-road AND is now SMOG exempt.

Thanks for the hours of material I have found while lurking.

Safe travels

 

[devo 1]

Getting my axles ready. Ordering the UJOR kit this week.

 

[225]

 

[devo 1]

Congrats, 225. What engine does it have? You've gone thru a lot of vans lately.:coffeedrink:

 

[225]

Congrats, 225. What engine does it have? You've gone thru a lot of vans lately.:coffeedrink:

Crazy I know. The first 2 were lemons. This one has a brand new 5.4 in it. No more diesels for me.

 

[350outrage]

New Bumper for Vanzilla/Plan B

Made a new bumper over the Holidays. Stock bumper looked nice, but design of these E series leaves NO place for tow strap or other recovery point in the front. This always tempts well meaning rescuers to attach to the steering linkage (Nooooo......). Also the stock bumper had the structural strength of a beer can . . .I.e. Zero. So out came the torch, my little Lincon Tombstone, an old piece, of C-Purlin, about 50 grinding wheels, 2 cans of rustoleum, blood, sweat, tears, and voila! One functional, if slightly redneck, bumper. BTW, I now understand why those custom made bumpers are so expensive !

 

[izaicinajums]

Baja California, Mexico. First two pictures from driving Baja 500 track (non-intentionally...)







Check Facebook page for more pictures.

 

[ujoint]

Wet day here in NC, had a few extra minutes before going somewhere so I headed up to the clouds in V5.

 

[DEFENDERBEAM]

Made a new bumper over the Holidays. Stock bumper looked nice, but design of these E series leaves NO place for tow strap or other recovery point in the front. This always tempts well meaning rescuers to attach to the steering linkage (Nooooo......). Also the stock bumper had the structural strength of a beer can . . .I.e. Zero. So out came the torch, my little Lincon Tombstone, an old piece, of C-Purlin, about 50 grinding wheels, 2 cans of rustoleum, blood, sweat, tears, and voila! One functional, if slightly redneck, bumper. BTW, I now understand why those custom made bumpers are so expensive !

Came out nice. simple and sturdy.

 

[Petrolburner]