I’m impressed at your ability to find this stuff. Those old Buicks are just crazy. As an ex-smoker, I’ll say that being inside a small camper with Dad puffing away in the corner would really bug me today.
Yeah, I remember the CB craze. “Callin’ all trucks, this here’s the Duck.”
Some shockers today
#18, the look on that kid’s face in the upper bunk says he’s gonna have to listen to the 2 below him bumping uglies later on that night…
…and every night for the next 1,572 miles.
# 11, the ’64 Chevy-it even has the Grateful Dead “Steal Your Face” skull on the driver’s door 🙂 Thanks! Scarecrow
It is an Oregon plate…
Dodge conversion van…worked in a custom van shop in high school. Everyone had shag carpeting, fake wood paneling installed horizontally, a sunroof, and the bubble windows in one form or another.. fender flares, running boards, and wheels/tires rounded out the look.
Some went all out on paint, murals, and such. Probably worked on 50 or more, conversions, most were remarkably similar when we were through.
Regarding the bus/camper on the guard rail:
Why is it when that was a bus, the driver needed a CDL; yet your average schmuck buys a converted bus / motor-home and just drives out of the lot? Then people are astonished when they wad them up, somewhere? Most of them can’t even pilot a car correctly.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
A couple personal memories here.
The 12th image sows a Dodge A100 van. I had one of those in college which I converted to a camper. My girlfriend and I spent a summer in it tourint the western states.
My dad was a topographer for the USGS and we moved usually twice a year so he could map areas that needed mapping. From 1st grade until I left for college, we lived in a Budger expando.
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I’m impressed at your ability to find this stuff. Those old Buicks are just crazy. As an ex-smoker, I’ll say that being inside a small camper with Dad puffing away in the corner would really bug me today.
Yeah, I remember the CB craze. “Callin’ all trucks, this here’s the Duck.”
Some shockers today
#18, the look on that kid’s face in the upper bunk says he’s gonna have to listen to the 2 below him bumping uglies later on that night…
…and every night for the next 1,572 miles.
# 11, the ’64 Chevy-it even has the Grateful Dead “Steal Your Face” skull on the driver’s door 🙂 Thanks! Scarecrow
It is an Oregon plate…
Dodge conversion van…worked in a custom van shop in high school. Everyone had shag carpeting, fake wood paneling installed horizontally, a sunroof, and the bubble windows in one form or another.. fender flares, running boards, and wheels/tires rounded out the look.
Some went all out on paint, murals, and such. Probably worked on 50 or more, conversions, most were remarkably similar when we were through.
Regarding the bus/camper on the guard rail:
Why is it when that was a bus, the driver needed a CDL; yet your average schmuck buys a converted bus / motor-home and just drives out of the lot? Then people are astonished when they wad them up, somewhere? Most of them can’t even pilot a car correctly.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
A couple personal memories here.
The 12th image sows a Dodge A100 van. I had one of those in college which I converted to a camper. My girlfriend and I spent a summer in it tourint the western states.
My dad was a topographer for the USGS and we moved usually twice a year so he could map areas that needed mapping. From 1st grade until I left for college, we lived in a Budger expando.