Van wheels number 11

[Innuendo]

Don't get me wrong I lived it, still live it and love it. But a mock/or real Sandman with hotwires and bathroom carpet are hardly something I need to see today as a feature article.
Imagine they released Street Machine with only cars built along 1984 Street Machining trends?

The issue is the people who are in charge of such things think '70's slap 'n' tickle or haven't moved past the '70's - '80's Vanning trends.
The crap "Fletch" served up on Classic Restos is a perfect example. If I was Dave Cooper I would have punched him in the face for the paint comment.
Even if it's true; you don't say something like that and put it to air.

[Big Rob]

Don't get me wrong I lived it, still live it and love it. But a mock/or real Sandman with hotwires and bathroom carpet are hardly something I need to see today as a feature article.
Imagine they released Street Machine with only cars built along 1984 Street Machining trends?

The issue is the people who are in charge of such things think '70's slap 'n' tickle or haven't moved past the '70's - '80's Vanning trends.
The crap "Fletch" served up on Classic Restos is a perfect example. If I was Dave Cooper I would have punched him in the face for the paint comment.
Even if it's true; you don't say something like that and put it to air.

I haven't picked up my copy yet, I hope to grab it Saturday morning when I'm in town, but I agree we need to move on from the old days of vanning while keeping a healthy respect for what has got us here now.
I sometimes look back through my old Vanwheels mags and think how we must have looked to the general public then. We thought we were cool (and I guess we were at the time), but we all grow up (unfortunately) and the van scene needs to too. I guess the whole custom car scene has moved a long way from what it was and how it was perceived back then.

We treated women "differently".
We drank and drove.
We didn't wear seatbelts.
We drove around with a mob in the back.
We did wheelies (not burnouts, nobody did them) every time we dropped the clutch.
And there's a lot more....

These things don't cut it now and neither do a lot of the custom touches applied to vans of the time. It's hard to draw the line though because everyone's taste is different.

[Flamenco_not_Flamingo]

I haven't picked up my copy yet, I hope to grab it Saturday morning when I'm in town, but I agree we need to move on from the old days of vanning while keeping a healthy respect for what has got us here now.
I sometimes look back through my old Vanwheels mags and think how we must have looked to the general public then. We thought we were cool (and I guess we were at the time), but we all grow up (unfortunately) and the van scene needs to too. I guess the whole custom car scene has moved a long way from what it was and how it was perceived back then.

We treated women "differently".
We drank and drove.
We didn't wear seatbelts.
We drove around with a mob in the back.
We did wheelies (not burnouts, nobody did them) every time we dropped the clutch.
And there's a lot more....

These things don't cut it now and neither do a lot of the custom touches applied to vans of the time. It's hard to draw the line though because everyone's taste is different.

I had hair and it was LONG!!!!