ive been helping a close family friend since late september 2011 on this project. It is a 1963 Grumman delivery van. Outside is all aluminium. He bought a wrecked 2007 chevy van for the drivetrain and part of the frame. front frame section was narrowed 6 inches, and new frame was hand built from motor back. We are keeping the leafs with airbags for load support. drivetrain is a stock 5.3 and 4l60e out of the wrecked van. Rearend we narrowed 5" on each side, we are going to run a 24x12" rear wheel!! This is going to be used as an RV, motocross hauler, and whatever else. It will have full a/c, running cold and hot water, Honda generator, and at least one flat screen tv w/ mobile satellite. Here are pics of the progress. haven't piced out the wheels yet, front will be 22x8, and rears 24x12" w/ a nice deep lip. Outside will be 100% polished alumiium with the exposed rivets. we have the wheel tubs in and rearend hump installed in the interior. I will have more pics of that this weekend We just got the rendering from Eric Brockmeyer last week. He is one of the most well known rendering artist in the hot rod world. Has done many renderings for Foose, Coddington, and many others. On to the pics, plan is to go to Heatwave this year for our first show. It wont be 100% then, but we plan on taking it. Big show will be SEMA. We plan on driving it there this year!!!

 

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Damn that is a cool off the wall project

 

somethin u wont see everyday!! My buddy will use it as rolling advertisement. He owns his own business selling private jet parts and tools that he manufactures.

 

Thats very cool man, cant wait to see it done..

 

what is that in the background of the rolling chassis picture?

 

The old chassis from the van

 

Not digging the Ford taillights... but other than that a very cool project!

 

Its just the lights the artist put on, not 100% sure what they will look like

 

Aww man I love Grumann Olson vans !!! That will be one Epic ride!!!

I have a pic of a 63' G O van i took at a car show last year, its slammed to the ground with Flat screens on each side advertising a business, i'll see if i can find it.

That really is one cool project!!!!