ANY OLD SCHOOL SURFER VAN ....MEMORIES

[MOUZER]

I HAD 64 FORD ECONOLINE SURFER VAN THEN A 77 DODGE SURFER VAN AND I WAS VP OF SOUTHERN VINTAGE VANS..........THIS REALLY BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES..SKIP AHEAD TO THE CARAVAN OF OVER 300 VANS STARTING WITH THE OLDIES FIRST...........I FRICKEN DIG IT..

 

[Ziggy]

Some cool old rides there.
Any surfer I've seen with a van is driving a VW without the dingleberries around the windshield.

 

[Mandelon]

No Van, Bus!

 

[sirbob]

In high school we used to ride around in my friends old VW bus (worth a mint now if he still had it).

What made it so special was it had been driven under something and the top of it had a slice right down the middle of the roof from front to back.

Imagine the shape of a mid sixties VW bus with a slice from front to back on the roof - we called it the "toaster".

For more reasons that just the slice in the roof

 

[rvrrun]

I had a '77 B-van as well. I loved it and so did my kids. It was fun seeing the moms faces when I picked them up from school in it. I plan to build another when a clean, original shorty crosses my path.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

There’s a Chevy van on CL for sale

 

[MOUZER]

i would pick up girls i asked out to the drive in in my mom buick riviera then go back home and get my van...........you shoulda seen some of the dads when i dropped there daughters in my van..............

 

[cofooter]

i would pick up girls i asked out to the drive in in my mom buick riviera then go back home and get my van...........you shoulda seen some of the dads when i dropped there daughters in my van..............

If the van's a rockin'.....................

 

[Tommy Gun Images]

I love me some vans!

My 78 Dodge, “Chester”

And my daily “VanHelsing”

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[Mandelon]

 

[6 balls]

She woke up and took me by the hand... She's gonna love me in my Chevy van and that's all right with me.

One of these days, I too will build another.

 

[Danger Dave]

Saw this somewhere else.

https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article218398110.html

 

[old rigger]

Went to a Van rally/party with my older cousin back in the 70's who had one of those early Ford Falcon vans. It was at a big parking lot for a grocery store or something similar up in the San Gabriel Valley, up by Alhambra maybe. The best part, except for getting stoned, a local as yet unknown band named Van Halen was playing the get together.

 

[rvrrun]

Went to a Van rally/party with my older cousin back in the 70's who had one of those early Ford Falcon vans. It was at a big parking lot for a grocery store or something similar up in the San Gabriel Valley, up by Alhambra maybe. The best part, except for getting stoned, a local as yet unknown band named Van Halen was playing the get together.

A friends girlfriend said they used to play backyard parties she went to in high school. I wonder how they sounded back then.

 

[TCHB]

I HAD 64 FORD ECONOLINE SURFER VAN THEN A 77 DODGE SURFER VAN AND I WAS VP OF SOUTHERN VINTAGE VANS..........THIS REALLY BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES..SKIP AHEAD TO THE CARAVAN OF OVER 300 VANS STARTING WITH THE OLDIES FIRST...........I FRICKEN DIG IT..

I had a 64 Ford van with aluminum wheel and Bridgestone racing tires on it. Lots of fun with my first car. Ford grabber blue.

 

[old rigger]

A friends girlfriend said they used to play backyard parties she went to in high school. I wonder how they sounded back then.

I'd be lying if I said I remembered how they sounded...it only became a cool story to tell after they hit and we realized that we'd seen them.
I was never crazy about the early vans, didn't like the idea of my knees being the front line of defense in a wreck. I understand others liking them, I was into '56 Ford trucks back in the 70s.

 

[TCHB]

This is my van. Looks small!!! My wife has asked me

when I was going to buy another truck and I say no no. Love my van.

 

[boatnam2]

The year was about 1977, my best buddies older brother had a brand new tricked out surfer van, had the carpeted walls on the inside with custom cut outs where he stuck pictures of marijuana buds, real stoner dude. So my buddy and I decide to roll with him at lunch to get some concert tickets at Sears, while we were there his brother says you guys ever try honey oil? we said no but what the hell lets try it, long story short he dropped us off at school I was so stoned out of my mind I couldn't even see the chalkboard, never ever smoked that shit again or rode in his SURFER VAN!

 

[Jonas Grumby]

We called mine the “stabbin Cabin”

Has a whole new meaning these days.

 

[boatpi]

Let me start off by saying I had three, and without a doubt the best vans ever made were the 1971 and later Dodge vans. The Ford in the Chevy or not very good the Ford be in the worst as you could not fit 1 foot on the floor because of the size of the engine compartment compartment. it was a terrible driving position. the Dodge at superior visibility and great mechanics back then. The chevys rusted within two years.

The best was a B200, of you can find one now, grab it. If you get one and it still has the old two barrel carburetor and want to keep a carbureted system, change the intake manifold them put on an Edelbrock four barrel. that was the only minor mechanical issue the two barrels or temperamental at times. But this was early 70's and it was all we had.




My first was a 66 Ford Econoline painted school bus yellow, on Friday nights and always found a spot then At Tin Can beach, which is now known as Bolsa Chica State Beach.

As life takes us many twists and turns, my Huntington beach house overlooks about a half a mile away the exact spot where I used to park at.

The rest are memories.

 

[MOUZER]

your messing with me boat pi........


mine in 76 was a 64 econoline window less van painted sb yellow had big craigers on the back lil skinny ones on the fron t wing on top side pipes even though it was 6 cyl 3 on the tree...gold crush interior walls ceiling everything with a bed in the back...and i would go down to bolsa and park on friday night.........did u buy my van...

 

[boatpi]

I had the "big" 170 six cylinder with three on the tree. I took off the front grill and had a chrome it looked bad ass.

 

[boatpi]

"If the van is rockin', don't come knocking "

 

[coolchange]

It was a guy in the early seventies in the valley that had a plain white early Dodge van. Had slots and big and Little's. Open the side doors and there was a six pack behind the seats, on top of a Mopar 440. It hauled the mail.

 

[OLDRAAT]

Nice old T-Bird in the garage across the street, Tony.

OR

 

[MOUZER]

I had the "big" 170 six cylinder with three on the tree. I took off the front grill and had a chrome it looked bad ass.

mine was chromed also...this is to funny.....i lived in lapalma at that time and had the van club southern vintage vans we had to have seen you around the oc or down at the beach are vans looked pretty close the same...........wish i had a pic my old girlfriend has all those pics.....

 

[boatpi]

I can't ever remember the name of some of the chicks I had in that van!

 

[endobear]

No old surfer vans but I have owned 4 1978 and newer bus/vans. They have been my daily drivers since 03.
Currently drive an 01 GMC Limited Explorer conversion van. Comfy and convenient.
Old man had one as a kid. So did all of his friends. I can remember going to a conversion shop with my old man in the late 70s to check out a buddys rig getting done like it was yesterday.

 

[nameisbond]

My friend had a VW bus senior year in high school. His father owned a small used car sales lot. Friend had access to the auctions and bought a wrecked 911 turbo. He dumped the motor into the bus. Street racing was popular at the time. He painted the bus purple. At the race meet up spot it soon became don't race the purple bus!

 

[LazyLavey]

Hell Ya!!

 

[Sharp Shooter]

Vantastic thread!

 

[Willie B]

...Never owned a van but road all the way from Malibu to Canada laying on top of huge TNT amplifiers for a big concert that was supposed to happen in Vancouver...1970(Joplin/Hendrix etc)
...’69 Dodge long van...318 torqueflite...
...It was called The Green Weiner for some reason...but had Slippery Jack Song Company painted on the side (music publishing company)
...That thing was bulletproof until one of the roadies lead footed it all the way across Texas at 100 miles an hour and put a rod through the side of the block...What did we do...found all the pieces ...welded up the block and continued to use it...
...When it wasn’t full of amplifiers and guitars it had a mattress on the floor...
...The mattress got a lot of use as I recall...

 

[Quicksilver]

I had a 1978 Dodge B200 StreetVan, 360 V8 red paint/ red interior. If I ever found it I would buy it back in a heartbeat. I loved that van; it loved gas.

 

[Sharp Shooter]

 

[boatdoc55]

Anybody remember the van-ins at Crazy Horse in Havasu??? I remember going but don't remember anything that happened. I was a member of West Coast Vans. '72 Ford, All around Craigers with Mickey Thompson tires. Side pipes, Port holes, rear wing, named "Rumor Hazzit". Pulling a 20 mini daycruiser.

 

[RogerThat99]

Scott Pellaton with Sanger Boats was rolling this van in the 70's. [emoji106][emoji106]

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[Howardflat]

I used to have this. My grandfather bought it when he owned Vogue Skis for taking skis and booth equipment to various boating shows in the 70's and 80's. He put a 454 with a th400. Thing was badass but I had to sell it.

 

[MOUZER]

Scott Pellaton with Sanger Boats was rolling this van in the 70's. [emoji106][emoji106]

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looks like mine except mine was yellow w/side pipes chrome even lol

 

[OceansideRide]

If anyone knows who drives this beauty, let me know . Couldn't stop him and offer some $$ , was on my way to an appointment.

Glorious-

 

[Rogers Hopeful]

My uncles van was in Hot Rod magazine

 

[Sharp Shooter]

 

[jetboatperformance]

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Holy Crap Jerry The Dude with the plaid Chino's is only a bit worse than the Cat with the Maha vest ... Nice Barbie, Boat and Van though

 

[DC-88]

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In 1988 I went to Ojai with my girlfriend looking to buy this boat out of the " recycler ", but it'd been left outside and had a weak looking 396 sitting in it

 

[96scarab]

I used to have this. My grandfather bought it when he owned Vogue Skis for taking skis and booth equipment to various boating shows in the 70's and 80's. He put a 454 with a th400. Thing was badass but I had to sell it. View attachment 692034 View attachment 692036

Hummmm. Shovel, bow saw and an ax in a traveling rubber room but used for "Skis" yikes!!!

 

[Howardflat]

Hummmm. Shovel, bow saw and an ax in a traveling rubber room but used for "Skis" yikes!!!

My grandfather's last name was Romano. Lol

 

[Beautiful Noise]

I had my 1973 Dodge from 74’ to 79’ Once we had our first Kid I jumped up to a Truck and Camper .......

 

[whipple charged]

I used to have this. My grandfather bought it when he owned Vogue Skis for taking skis and booth equipment to various boating shows in the 70's and 80's. He put a 454 with a th400. Thing was badass but I had to sell it. View attachment 692034 View attachment 692036

ive seen this van or one just like it ..
runs around san diego area..
its sounds heathy and looks restored.. its has a guys mobile repair name on it..

 

[jetboatperformance]

My wife remembers on the night we went on our first date that while at a stop lite (In my TR4) i said ,"im gonna get a van " ........Im' thinking there was lovin on my mind

 

[Howardflat]

ive seen this van or one just like it ..
runs around san diego area..
its sounds heathy and looks restored.. its has a guys mobile repair name on it..

I sold it to a friend then he sold it. I think thats where it went.

 

[whipple charged]

I sold it to a friend then he sold it. I think thats where it went.

I see it often ill snap a pic next time..