GROOVY BABY! Fully Customized 1977 Chevrolet Hippy Van! Abandoned for 29 Years! Will it Run?!?

I bet your videos are interesting, but the first thing I see is a stupid burnout donut. click.

I had a uncle who had a crazy mid 70s van like this. He would drive around drinking beer and smoking Winston cigarettes and listening to Bob Seger all the time. He had nine kids and they would all pile in that old van and ride around with the radio cranking lol. He's dead and gone now but it brings back great memories thanks Mortske. It's just water under the fridge.

You wouldnt know a good set of wheels if it smacked ya across the face. How can you not like Keystones? Some one get this man a set of grandpa saw blade wheels, I know secretly they have to be your favorite.

OMG, the 45's are worth way more than the van will ever be worth!!!! what a find!!!!

You definately need to keep this van to go to car shows!!!!!Ok here is my van story, my dad had a brand new 1971 Ford Econoline van with 302 V8, headers and holley carb and edelbrock high rise manifold, we called it the race van, and we drove it up the Alaska highway from Illinois to Alaska in 1974 what an adventure!!!! I loved that van!!! CB radio, it ran fantastic and got great mileage too!

I had a 1986 Chevy Caravan conversion , I loved it , wish I'd never got rid of it .

Gotta love a Dahmer Van... surprised its not actively sticky inside 🤣

When I see party vans, I think of our next door neighbor Jim in the 80's. He had a new at the time early 80's Chevy Shorty van, no rear windows, metallic Maroon, lots of chrome, with matching Maroon custom shagging interior. It also had a small matching Maroon speed boat. Jim was a cool dude. He also had an 80's V8 Monte Carlo in similar Maroon color. The Monty got traded in for a new 1989 Turbo Chrysler Conqust TSI widebody with the rear window louvers. The Mitsu Starion twin. It was white, but in true Jim fashion, the interior was Maroon leather. I remember seeing that sharp edged Conquest body as a new car when I was a kid, full of digital displays, Turbo engine, amazing alloy wheels, it seemed like I was looking at the future. My father also had a bit of a party van when I was very young. An early 60's Ford Falcon van, or E100 econoline. It looked normal on the outside, just a white Straight 6, three on the tree work van on OE wheels. It was a short van with no windows. It was insulated inside, and covered with a purple fur material, similar to the roof of your van. It was purple fur interior on all the walls and ceiling, with purple shag carpet on the floor. No rear seats, just bean bag chairs. When I was 2-5 years old, I always rode on top of the engine, in between the front seats. The warm hum of the straight six always put me to sleep. My parents couldn't take me anywhere farther than 10 minutes away without me passing out on the engine lid.

Your humor, my braught back thaughts of my misspent youth , my Chevy van ( Blunderbus ). The place the gang got together at lunch time for refreshments, so we could make it through the day and most of the evening. Ah well ,that was a whole lifetime ago.I'm 77 with one foot on a banana peel and one foot in the grave. Thanks for the memories , looking forward to your next one..Stu from Canada...................

Had a friend named Don with a early 70's Chevy van. We called it the Don-O-Van.. Your van brought back a foggy memory of a Saturday night in the early 80's cruising rural Iowa doing bong hits and drinking a fifth of Brass Monkey. Our buddy Don was driving and managed to get us lost in the middle of nowhere in the dark. It didn't help he was already lost within the corridors if his own mind (acid).. lol. Took a while but we turned up in a one horse town with a single bar so we figured out which way was home from there. Not sure how we survived our youth.

wow! this took me back in time. I'm 68 years old and back in 72, I was shopping in our local junkyard when I came up on a cool van with the side ripped open. I looked in and it had red shag carpet and there were hundreds of plants 6 inches tall growing on the floor. They had sun and rain to reproduce Columbian plants again. You have to remember the seedless varieties hadn't been perfected yet. I think Duff would have liked it better if it had the doghouse cover on it. Loved the video.

What’s absolutely funny to me is that I love cleaning, washing, detailing, cars, pressure washing, fixing upholstery, polishing trim and chrome.. I love doing all the stuff you hate.. lol… I hate the chore of tuning or getting them to run.. lol

Hearing that quadrajet open up when you hit it brought back tons of memories of driving around with my dad in his 78 silverado. Nothing beats that unfiltered intake sound lol

I never knew that these vans where unibody. You learn something new every day.

That blue thing you found under the seat is for Freon cans you clip it to the can any can and you can put Freon in your system. That's actually a good find they're hard to to get anymore now you have to buy all this special crap.. that will fit any can any style

All jokes aside, that van is actually in pretty good shape overall. It is definitely worth fixing up for somebody that wants one.

I know this video is over a year old as I post but like everyone else, I have a van memory: My dad had a '74 Ford SuperVan (a rreal thing,.look it up) with a 302 v8. It was work spec. Sliding right-sise door, and barn doors in the back. Inside, nothing beyond the front 2 sests. It did have rear A/C but think delivery van. My dad put shag into it, blue velvet seats our of an Old/Buick, built a removable table, cabinet for a cooler & storage, and a seats that converted to a bed in the back..This was the late '70s & no sest belt laws, so us kids just sat, played, walked all around as we floated down the road with Manalow, Elvis, the Saturday Night Fever 8 tracks rotating to provide tunes. Good times.

Absolutely enjoyed this video, especially when the four barrels got stuck at 75 mph.. Would like to see more of this build.

Chevy also made a fan they called the Nomad. I had a 1980. 400/4bbl factory duals. Factory AM/FM/CB. 4 factory captain's chairs. Lotta fun to drive.

Glued I love that van. Mortske leave the 63 sitting there it's great eye candy.