September 6, 2011
Chevy van
Call it van envy or perhaps appreciation, but driving down a gravel road headed towards Carbondale, I spotted this beauty, a late 60′s Chevy van, parked at a trailhead. Having spent the last five years on the East Coast, where regularly salted roads make specimens like this as rare as dreadlocks at an NRA convention, I quickly pulled a U-y and parked. As a thunderstorm marched in from the north, I jumped out of my van to take a better look.
The windows were open, the tires low and the body covered in dirt but that’s why I like this van. Some things look better rode hard and put away wet.
The bumper looks like it has traded paint with the best of them.
Blue, black, white and a shot of rust.
General Motors Company. I hope to see more like this out there on the road.
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those were old when I was in my 20′s
That is not rode hard and put away wet, that is more like regularly excercised and I hope I look that good when I am that old….for argument sake, one human year is 1.6 human years.
If it were, burgundy and in Nevada I would say it might me my grandpa and his hunting buddy. Great pictures.
Looks like Kebler Pass. Just rode through there on my Scrambler a few weeks ago…
Jon,
your right, it was kebler pass. was the van stlil there?
foster
Haha. No, it had moved on…