Let’s face it, sometimes we march to the beat of a different drummer around here. After all, Brian is building a mid ’80s Caprice, I’m infatuated with old motorhomes, and we somehow fall in love with just as many weirdo vehicles as ’69 Camaros or ’32 Fords. What the hell is wrong with us? Who knows, but whatever it is, we know you have it too. And speaking of having it, here is one we would really love to have. It’s a rare GM PB2500 Lyn Air truck that is unmolested, and in excellent condition, mostly because it spent it’s entire life as a public servant. Yep, it was police or fire only for this bad boy, which means it has been maintained and purrs like a kitten.
We of course would totally ruin that. (Insert Evil Laugh Here!) Yep, if it was ours, we would outfit it with a new GM LS Crate Engine running MSD’s new Atomic EFI, featuring a FAST intake and Throttle Body and Crane Valvetrain parts, backed by an Overdrive from TCI, slam the thing with help of some Air Ride from Ridetech, throw a killer exhaust on it with Hooker’s stainless cast manifolds and Flowtech mufflers, cool it with parts from AFCO, and dress the whole damn thing up with parts from Hedman/Transdapt. Aeromotive and Rick’s Tanks would get our fuel system needs in check, Baer would get us stopped, and Autometer would make sure we knew what was going on under the hood, and in the tank. American Powertrain would be called to action for some of their electric power steering, and chassisworks would help us get all this junk bolted in where it’s supposed to be. Last, but certainly not least, we would wire the entire thing for all our live broadcasts, and include a HUGE Powermaster alternator to feed a bank of batteries and inverter to power all our gear.
Of course we would also call upon all the fabricators at Ridetech and Chassisworks to make sure we had the coolest broadcasting platform ever right on top. Oh, and a couch and kegerator of course.
Click the link at the bottom of the page to see the complete ad with even more photos. If one of you rich readers our there wants to purchase this for us, either have it delivered to BangShift West headquarters, or Ridetech in Jasper Indiana. We’ll pick it up next week.
No excuses needed. These old vans are really cool. Personally, I would love to have one. Plenty of room to haul bangshifting equipment around, with great retro looks. There is an old Southern Coach step van (60’s vintage) in a storage lot near here. It has been there for years. Maybe someday I will go drag that thing home.
I wouldn’t think of molesting anything in this good of shape. Yeah I would! Who am I kidding?
I bought a freshly restored 1949 Divco milk truck last year and the first thing I did was put a 6.7 Cummins with a 4 speed and a Dana 60 in it. Then repaint it midnight blue. It’s not as big as most of the step vans, but I can haul and tow just about anything I want to with it.