The van came with barn doors and I have not been a fan of them and I do not not like the rear hinges that come on Astro's. So what we did is cut the barn door in half threw away the top windows. Welded the bottom door shut removed the hinges welded a Sir Mike's roll pan on filled the lic plate hole and handle. Then we grafted a passenger Van rear window and welded up the holes on the rear window where the hinge hole were. Which gives a smooth look then we removed the third light and the roof rack.
The next thing we did was I'm alot older than most of you on the site and I have always been a fan of louvers. I talked Sir Mike into doing some Inverted Louvers for me on the hood.
sunset77 wrote:... I'm alot older than most of you on the site ...
Define "older"
Define "alot"
I was told getting my beauty sleep was a waste of time.
1990 Astro (Z motor) mostly original @ 343,584 miles (552,944.8488960001 Canadian) (03/2008). Bad startup puff. Starting to spray for skeeters. Gone 06/07/08.
1993 Astro with a bad W motor. Parked next to a chicken coop in Talking Rock GA
I'm 'tween Canton and Holly Springs (North NorthWest of Atlanta GA)
I haul bottled water everyday- between 500 and 2500 pounds (226.796185 and 1,133.980925 Canadian) INSIDE the van.
Good Morning I hope that everyone does not think I'm force feeding this thing but this is work that has been done over time and I thought I would like to share what we have done.
When I got the Van I could not understand why they put this little plastic piece on the fender lip. We took the piece off made a metal one and fab it to the truck.
that looks awesome, the seams around the back window bottom right corner could use some work,better than what i could do and it looks awesome, any shot of the hole van from the side or what not? looks awesome from what there.
Here is the project as it sits today there are a few things I would like to do like smooth the roof and add a V8 before we do a repaint on the Van. I do not drive it very much I have had the Van for Ten years and only 15,000 miles but things do happen.