nifty43 found and posted this ’67 Chevy Sportvan at the Cohort. Never seen one like that before; I’d say it’s a home-brew job. But if it were mine, I’d have painted it silver all over, and added a few Greyhound logos on it.
Of course, the effect would be even better if it was a windowless van.
The rakish back end has a bit of overhang. Pretty unique. And maybe it wasn’t homemade; there were lots of small companies trying to get into the camper market back then.
Never seen anything like it. Must be home made. To make it look more like a Greyhound, they need to turn that top around so the windows have the forward look. Then find a rap around windshield from a 50s vehicle for the front of that top.
It’s called a vista Van built by a small company out of Quebec. I owned one for a while until my ex wife wrecked it… Sigh
Back during the 70s van craze, guys would graft the roof of an Olds Vista Cruiser, with the glass, to the roof of a van, If done right it looked pretty cool.
In the 70s, there was a VW bus running around Kalamazoo, that had a beetle greenhouse welded on the top. I think the owner was a student at WMU because I saw it frequently near campus.
iirc, it was destroyed in an accident on Stadium Drive and the owner killed.
Ouch….
That’s, umm, err…….. different.
Well that is pretty cool and I like the color scheme, but considering the lack of UV Rays much of the year in the Pacific Northwest perhaps a more cheery combination of colors should have been used.
Nice looking custom van. I’ve always liked 1967-70 Chevy Vans.
Like Steve, I saw this a lot with VWs but this is new to me. If a homebrew, it is well done.
That’s a neat, tidy and modern looking van. A kingsize Fiat 238, sort of.
I remember lot of strange looking mutant vans in the 1970s. Someone in my neighborhood had a standard van that had been cut in half lengthwise and a section added down the middle to make it wider. I remember vans that had been converted into pickups with homemade wooden truck beds. I remember all sort of crazy mods done to VW microbuses
John ;
Those wide body vans were a regular modification , we had them in The Civil Service , L.A.P.D. and so on , always Dodges IIRC .
I like this Chevy , the upper glass looks like a standard back light to who knows what to me .
-Nate
I have seen very similar raised roof conversions on that era of Chevy van, I am guessing it was done by an RV company. The Scenicruiser, what a coach.
The angled back rear of the top ruins it’s looks.
It looks more like someone had a bad dream and then brought it into real life.
I see a fishing rod in the cab, and I think a reel is on the dash. Is that a furnace vent on the side? A Canadian fishing/ice fishing van? The van looks to be in really good shape. Whoever owns it really treats it nice.
Impressive in its own weird way.