2012 USA Van Nationals

[wendyh]

Pete Fres and other memebers from the  www.southerncrossvans.com.au went over to the usa to the 2012 Van Nationals and have just uploaded heaps of pics,  on their site, of some amazing big vans.
Well worth a look 
Enjoy 

[Rogue Trooper]

You might want to check that link. The one you have provided is for a transport company.

[wendyh]

oppsss       US Van National pics

www.southerncrossvans.com    NO! .au

sorry bout that in auto pilot with the au bit         

thanx Rouger Trooper

[Bedfordcrazy]

Love some of those interiors. the yanks still love their custom vans, almost like going back to the 70s.

george

[BusyKiwi]

You'll probably find those vans are from the 70's

cheers for the porn

[Sundownernz]

There were a couple of vans there that were on the show scene in the 70's & 80's. Good to see they have been saved from the crusher.

That was such an awesome event, i'm definately going back, probably the 45th in 5 years time. Should be enough time to save up.

Garry.

[Vandee]

Nice turn out.

[petrolhead]

SWEEEET just gotta love all those murals (when will it catch on here)and a few stretched ones that I havn't seen

[Bedfordcrazy]

It won't catch on here, and here's why, we have thousands of guys and girls here in oz, a lot of which are on here @ buga, and a lot of us can not for one reason or another do the custom work / paint / murals. Now you try and find someone to do the custom work, it's like trying to find a hen with teeth, they all want to do insurance work. Then you have this other problem, as we have seen on here, how many sites have we found in america that deal only in custom van parts, spoilers, wings and so on, and they cover the full spectrum of vans, ford, dodge chevy, how many places do we have here in oz, mmmmm closest i have come is a caravan spares place, for the odd roof vent. There's a70s roof vent i would love to get, and the only place i have ever seen it is in america. So folks untill we get a custom van industry in this country, i'm talking about customizers, painters and retail parts nothing will change. We have the customer base, and there are hot rod builders around, we have a company called oz rods just minutes away that can do the work, but when they are charging $20,000-00 just to do my disc brakes conversion and power steering, man it would of cost me $100,000-00 to get my van finished, they can afford to charge that because they have no competition. As it was it cost me just under $5000 to do my disc brakes / power steering.

So the moral to this story is untill we get the trades to service the customer base we are going to have more stock Bedfords on the road than custom.

Here is the vent i am talking about, it's at the back.

george   

[tiwaz_nz]

totally agree 

and the outlets out there that do do the work arent easy to find
id love a good mural but im in no way able to pay the price that they want
the average wage here in nz is 50,000 and im not even getting that so its a long road to do a van up and mine will have to look stock for a while ... at least i can do alot of the work myself at the moment