Dr. Blinstein's Passion Van

[Ysarex88 82]

Rainy weekend so I fired up the scanner and hauled out an old book of negs from my past.

Joe

 

[smoke665]

If the van be rockin, don't come knockin LOL

 

[tirediron]

Every teenage boy's dream in 1979!

 

[jcdeboever]

Every teenage boy's dream in 1979!

Teenage boy?

 

[annamaria]

Ah yes time machine.


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[tirediron]

Every teenage boy's dream in 1979!

Teenage boy?

Owning one of these; didn't every 14-18 year old boy want something just like that, if not groovier?

 

[Derrel]

Every teenage boy's dream in 1979!

Uhhhhh...I was 16 in 1979 and in high school...I wanted a 1979 Camaro!!!! Not a gol-durn van.

Now...a little bit later in high school, I would have LOVED to have had a van...

Just sayin'....

 

[tirediron]

Every teenage boy's dream in 1979!

Uhhhhh...I was 16 in 1979 and in high school...I wanted a 1979 Camaro!!!! Not a gol-durn van.

Now...a little bit later in high school, I would have LOVED to have had a van...

Just sayin'....

Didn't say we didn't want other cars too!

 

[pixmedic]

groovy

 

[Ysarex88 82]

It's uncanny how you guys can just look at a vehicle like that and date it. Here's a blow-up of the plate on the van.

That's before MO went to two year registrations and there's leaves on the trees so this photo had to be taken in the summer of 1980.

Joe

 

[vintagesnaps]

Hmm. I didn't think by that time doctors were still making house calls.

 

[vintagesnaps]

What's the car back there, and was it puke green?? (or piss green depending on what we felt like calling it).

 

[Ysarex88 82]

What's the car back there, and was it puke green?? (or piss green depending on what we felt like calling it).

Some kind of Chevy. I don't even remember taking the photo so no idea about color there.

Joe

 

[limr32 1]

It's uncanny how you guys can just look at a vehicle like that and date it. Here's a blow-up of the plate on the van.

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That's before MO went to two year registrations and there's leaves on the trees so this photo had to be taken in the summer of 1980.

Joe

Hey, some of us non-guys could peg that van, too!

 

[jcdeboever]

Every teenage boy's dream in 1979!

Teenage boy?

Owning one of these; didn't every 14-18 year old boy want something just like that, if not groovier?

I painted quite a few custom vans back in the 80's. Some idiot from PPG came up with the idea to use catalyzed acrylic enamel clear over lacquer color to reduce the labor and give the ability to use big flake for a sparkle finish. The problem with that is if you made an error and had to fix it, you had to take the enamel clear off or it would lift. In other words, it was non repairable. We were adding big mylar flake to the clear and burying it with clear. It was cool at the time but man, hurt you arm getting that flake just right. I used a figure 8 technique to lay the metallic effect out evenly. Talk about going through masking tape and paper. This was all before basecoat / clearcoat days. There basically was enamel and lacquer.